The title is a saying that Mike Nelson always uses when referring to overtraining. Well, after Saturday's hard workout I was at the burning point. While bench press tested OK, bar speed just wasn't there. So what did I do? Kept on pushing. Wrong answer. I felt like taking a nap soon after my workout and then proceeded to have no energy the rest of the weekend. In other words, I taught my body that this workout was DIFFICULT. I had pains and tension on Sunday something terrible. My neck was totally whacked, a sure sign of struggling and maintaining high tension. Took until Tuesday night to feel better. I lost a few pounds and had sleep disturbances i.e. 5 hours Sunday night. These are all symptoms of overtraining and overload of adrenal stress. Time to quit working on intensity and start breaking PRs in density and volume!
Busy at work, baseball game until 7:30 so training was abbreviated. Shattered my BUP intensity, volume and density PRs tonight! Started off with the 16K for 12r and 10left, easy PRs. Then got 56 in 10 minutes for volume and density. And it was fun and EZ. No grimacing, no tensing. As soon as it got tough, I took 'er down. Did swings and would have broken a PR but had bad record keeping. That won't happen again!
On a side note, watched the Biggest Loser finale. The guy who won dropped 264 pounds. Wow! The only thing better than that is not weighing 526 to start with. Problem is, the guy moved like crap. His legs were so externally rotated I couldn't imagine him running or doing any kind of sport. Ouch! Movement protocol emergency!!!!
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