How to know when not to train?
Lloyd Abshire
2025-08-12 01:10:50
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If you’re running a fever, stay home. A fever means your body is fending off an illness, and putting your body under stress from a workout will only make it harder to kick. You’re injured, give your body the rest it needs to heal. Working out stresses your body, making it harder to fight an illness. If you’re exhausted, it’s best to stay away from the gym. When you’re tired, you’re more likely to make mistakes with your form, which could lead to injury. If you’re dreading heading to the gym or doing your usual workout—don’t go. If you just had surgery/a baby/a major injury, even if you’ve been cleared to work out by your doctor, but aren’t feeling up to it, don’t. Your body is still recovering, and knows what it needs. If training isn’t in the cards, don’t push it.
Hettie Armstrong
2025-08-03 05:38:17
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If you use a fitness watch to track your heart rate, a quick glance at your watch will tell you if you’re nearing your max heart rate – pushing your body too hard well and truly in the ‘red zone’. And vice versa, you’ll know if you’re not putting in enough effort and need to turn on the jets and work harder. It’s crucial to flag that training smart can sometimes triumph training hard. This means that consistent high-intensity workouts with little break is arguably more damaging than a progressive workout regime with intensity peaks and rest periods. Exercise is itself a stressor on the body, and we need to have periods of low-intensity so that our body is able to take us to the next level during a challenging workout. If you’re new to exercise, or feeling unsure as to whether you’re working out hard enough, the best way to monitor exercise intensity is to use a heart rate monitor. A heart rate monitor can easily assess whether you’ve become physically adapted to your training and will tell you when you’ve dropped out of the ‘red-zone’ (80-100% of your max heart rate). Monitoring your heart rate is so easy now with all the wrist-based heart rate monitors available, so grab yourself one and get training.
Junius Sporer
2025-07-24 22:35:35
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You’re not able to complete your normal training routine. You’re showing up, but are giving up a little too soon or merely just going through the motions. It’s a struggle even to get through it, and you’re staring at the clock, watching each minute pass. You are painfully sore all the time. Being sore after your workout is normal, and it’s possible your delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) won’t peak for another 48 hours. However, being constantly sore is a clear sign that you need to back off and give your muscles an opportunity to truly recover. You feel fatigued and sluggish for the rest of the day after your workout. You are able to muster the energy to complete your workout, but then you are spent for the remainder of the day. Not good. You start to crave comfort foods and begin overeating, mindless eating and/or binge eating. According to human performance expert, Dr. Phil Maffetone, overtraining often leads to “abnormal hunger or cravings for sweets.” You begin experiencing behavioral changes like insomnia, depression, irritability or mood swings. When you overtrain, you go into systemic overload.