The last two days I've been feeling really tired and achy and yesterday I pushed through and ran, which was good, but today both Tom and I woke up feeling exhausted. I realized we hadn't taken a day off of working out for over a week - classic overtraining symptoms!
Overtraining is tricky for me - I don't want to lose momentum, or use it as an excuse to not to work out, but at the same time, I really want to shift my long term exercise habits. One of those old habits is to go crazy on working out, get completely worn out or hurt myself and then quit working out. Sooooooooooooooooooo.... today I am not going to the gym, but I am going to focus on eating lots of good protein and vegetables, starting a daily regimen of a multivitamin, emergen-c, and omega 3 Wild Salmon Oil, drinking lots of water and getting some extra sleep tonight. I am also going to do some stretching too.
And tomorrow I'm gonna get up bright and early and head to the gym for a really good workout!
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Good for you! Great reminder to rest BEFORE our bodies force us to. I've gone overboard before and found myself too exhausted or injured to keep me from my training/exercise program. Then I'm bummed out AND not exercising....
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