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Overtraining is the card thrown on every table where training a body part more than once per week is present. Dude, you SERIOUS? Do you know how frequently Olympic lifters train? Often six days per week, hardcore training and guess what? They continue to make personal bests. Wanna know the secret to avoiding overtraining? It's called periodization.

Now, don't get me wrong, there is going to be a point in your career where you will go into an overreaching stage. If not, then you're not training hard enough. You should be, training heavy each workout in your beginner stages. Three days per week is the general guideline; it gives your endocrine system time to recuperate.

Overtraining doesn't refer to muscles. Overtraining is a psychological condition. It comes from training too hard for too long without the use of a deload week or week off. Overtraining refers to the nervous system. What do you think controls your movements? Your CNS. Your muscles cannot contract without permission from the train.

People far too frequently mistake what is called an "overreaching" phase with overtraining. Overreaching is something that might occur more frequently, but still cannot go unnoticed and needs a week or more to recuperate from. Regardless, your training should not always be to failure. If failure is used smartly, then it can be a useful tool, but that's just what it is - a tool.

The next thing you need to understand about overtraining is the symptoms. Insomnia, depression, loss of appetite and all of those symptoms do not come from doing too many barbell curls. It comes from fatigue of the CNS. Very rarely does someone become strong enough that their CNS cannot perform with their muscles. This is something mainly the pros have to worry about. As beginners, which are usually what confuse the term, it's something you might not ever have to worry about.

Think of overtraining as a disease; don't think of it as a condition. It's something along the lines of depression. Something that is going to take time to get rid of. Afterall, both have similar symptoms and neither can be mistake for anything else. Never said someone if you're overtraining. Overtraining is such a bad condition, that it cannot go unnoticed.

People also think overtraining and undernourishment are the same thing and that is the complete opposite of the truth. Undernourishment is catabolism; overtraining is far more serious than that.