Great day for a WOD! The Saturday crew
21-15-9
Sumo Deadlift High Pull
Push Press
Pullups
Rx - 95m, 65w
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Overtraining is a physical, behavioral and emotional condition that occurs when the volume and intensity of an individual’s exercise exceeds their recovery capacity. You cease making progress, and can even begin to lose strength and fitness.
Overtraining can be a huge problem and can stall your progress. It’s important to realize that while CrossFit is awesome for getting robust results very quickly, the loads and intensity is high. Results diminish and disappear when you overtrain.
Some symptoms of overtraining:
* Slowed, stopped or regressing results… (Crossfit Benchmark Scores, fat loss, delayed recovery)
* Drop in Intensity
* Drop In Performance
* Higher Resting heart rates (One easy thing to do: check your heart rate every morning before you get up. If your usually at about 58-60 beats per minute, and one morning your around 68-70 BPM (10 above my resting BPM) I know that your overtraining, sick, or at a higher elevation.)
* Drop in Motivation
* Drop in Sleep Quality
* Fatigue throughout the day
If left unmanaged, overtraining over long periods of time can lead to bigger issues. (Increase in infections and colds, Injury, Elevated Stress, Depression)
If you start seeing any of these start to crop up, it’d be a good idea to re-strategize your workout regimen.
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