swanso5 wrote:you'll rarely over train one muscle, you'll over train systematically, not locally...also overtraining in it's purest from doing too much volume (sets and reps)
saying this those who come on here and say "i'm overtrained" when they train 2 a week using 5pd db's just aren't anywehwre near it when it comes to eating and resting properly
i bet if everyone who said i'm ovetrained focused on improving their eating and resting, without even 1 training alteration, they would progress again
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I agree that over-training is a whole body thing; you never seem to over-train individual muscles. You can have insufficient rest for individual muscles to allow for strength/size gains. That won't stop you from going to the gym; it only stops you from making progress.
I trained for mountian climbing at one time. I ran in the morning, lifted at lunch and rode bicycle evenings and weekends. I rode 25 miles each day after work and 50 miles each day of the weekend.
I continued this program for a while after the major climb and one day I walked to the garage to take out the bike and I put it back and didn't ride again for 6 months. That's classic over-training.
When I was a member of a gym, each year there would be one or two guys that trained very, very hard and long during the winter and got in terrific shape in time for the summer. By summer's end though, in each case, they were over-trained and simply disappeared from the gym. Classic over-training. (Occasionally you'd see one of them trying for a come-back but it never seemed to work.)
The worst part of over-training is the fact that it will drive someone to quit working out entirely; will power is not sufficient to overcome the effects of over-training.
allllrighty then...
when he saw what I was loading in the fridge and pantry from the store... LMAO.. Said is that really you in there dad.. 
