Posted by SLS on November 13, 2010, at 15:46:17
In reply to Re: Nutrition, posted by alexandra_k on November 12, 2010, at 20:44:56
> I took last weekend off and had a WONDERFUL training session on Monday.
:-)
Now, I'm sure that you knew that I would cite your experience as evidence of overtraining.
I am very familiar with this pattern of response to exercise. I have seen this sort of thing occur quite frequently with people who exercise the hardest - using a combination of high intensity and high volume. When I was instructing, people were incredulous that taking off a week from training could improve their performance. They usually thanked me after capitulating.
Some people use the principle of periodicity when training. I wish I could find the notebook that I used when I went to exercise physiology symposia. I trained a guy for a bodybuilding competition who followed this principle with both exercise and diet. For muscularity in physique, it is amazing what a little carbohydrate depletion can do when it is followed immediately by carbohydrate loading.
Now you have me interested in knowing what the latest research has to say about the processes that are involved in overtraining and recovery. Glycogen depletion? I really don't know.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.
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