Yes, that's possible. Over 10 years ago I got overtrained.
According to the litterature I read, overtraining is far more likely if you train often in the same way. I think that because I train mostly alone, I get into some sort of routine. I also take far too few days off, since I ride often 21 days in a row.
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I was tired and exhausted even *before* I got to the race (we use to ride easy to the local races). My stomach was upset for months. I rode only 11000 km that year.
I had the same: loss of sleep, stomach-, bowel problems, dizziness, extremely slow resting heart rate (32 bpm) etc etc.
Yes, that's possible. Over 10 years ago I got overtrained.
According to the litterature I read, overtraining is far more likely if you train often in the same way. I think that because I train mostly alone, I get into some sort of routine. I also take far too few days off, since I ride often 21 days in a row.
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I was tired and exhausted even *before* I got to the race (we use to ride easy to the local races). My stomach was upset for months. I rode only 11000 km that year.
I had the same: loss of sleep, stomach-, bowel problems, dizziness, extremely slow resting heart rate (32 bpm) etc etc.
Greetings , derk
_Slow_ RHR? I'm not a doctor, but I thought that an elevated resting heart rate was the classic sign of overtraining.
-RjC.
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Yes, that's possible. Over 10 years ago I got overtrained.
According to the litterature I read, overtraining is far more likely if you train often in the same way. I think that because I train mostly alone, I get into some sort of routine. I also take far too few days off, since I ride often 21 days in a row.
Quoted message said:
I was tired and exhausted even *before* I got to the race (we use to ride easy to the local races). My stomach was upset for months. I rode only 11000 km that year.
I had the same: loss of sleep, stomach-, bowel problems, dizziness, extremely slow resting heart rate (32 bpm) etc etc.
Greetings , derk
_Slow_ RHR? I'm not a doctor, but I thought that an elevated resting heart rate was the classic sign of overtraining.
I also thought that the resting heart rate increased, not decreased. But then, I did not measure my RHR very well at that time.
_Slow_ RHR? I'm not a doctor, but I thought that an elevated resting heart rate was the classic sign of overtraining.
It seems to depend of which part of the nervous system is affected by overtrainig: the parasympathic or sympathic nervous system. At first my RHR was elevated in the morning (not having recovered from a workout causes this), but as I continued to overdo it for many more weeks/months, I got a very slow RHR.
I have a list somewhere of which symptoms are typical for each part of the nervous system. These symptoms can be completely opposite, depending on which sort of overtraining you suffer from. It can be either sleeping far too long, or not being able to sleep at all, loss of appetite, or normal appetite,diarrhea or constipation etc etc. That's why overtraining is so difficult to diagnose.
I read an article in TOUR about an athlete whose body stopped making white blood cells because of heavy overtraining. That's how far one can go, it seems.
