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Re: Overtraining

Postby Melas Zomos » Thu May 05, 2011 9:35 pm

Cookie wrote:So it would seem that the mental side of things can be far more damaging & calorie sapping than any program out there.


Absolutely, no question at all about it.
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Re: Overtraining

Postby Cookie » Fri May 06, 2011 10:10 am

Melas Zomos wrote:Absolutely, no question at all about it.


A lot more than its given credit for. First writer I ever remember bringing this up was Gironda. Pity I didn`t listen all those years ago :roll:
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Re: Overtraining

Postby samurai69 » Fri May 06, 2011 10:35 am

Cookie wrote:
Melas Zomos wrote:Absolutely, no question at all about it.


A lot more than its given credit for. First writer I ever remember bringing this up was Gironda. Pity I didn`t listen all those years ago :roll:


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Re: Overtraining

Postby Cookie » Tue Oct 25, 2011 4:40 pm

Bumping an old thread with this little gem of a find.
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Re: Overtraining

Postby Cookie » Mon Jan 09, 2012 1:00 pm

"If you don't have conditioning it doesn't matter how big your muscles are they ain't gonna reach their full potential!"

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Re: Overtraining

Postby Cookie » Thu Feb 09, 2012 5:29 pm

Not sure if I've posted this before.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article ... 6-0066.pdf
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Re: Overtraining

Postby Cookie » Wed Nov 07, 2012 2:48 pm

A test that "may" help with identifying the onset of overtraining.

http://www.brianmac.co.uk/hrtest.htm

And there's Excel spreadsheet to download to track everything.
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Re: Overtraining

Postby Melas Zomos » Fri Nov 09, 2012 4:11 am

Just how many spreadsheets do you use Cookie, for training related stuff?
Before you answer perhaps we should have a contest of our forum members?
Can we do polls on here?
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Re: Overtraining

Postby Cookie » Fri Nov 09, 2012 8:29 am

Melas Zomos wrote:Just how many spreadsheets do you use Cookie, for training related stuff?
Before you answer perhaps we should have a contest of our forum members?
Can we do polls on here?


There should be a poll option :-k
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