“How can you tell if you're over training?” It's a really good question and I've recently learned about a valuable measure called the control pause. It comes from the Buteyko method, which is known for being an asthma-associated therapy, but it can be applied to show where your system is functioning at at any time. If your system is struggling more than the day before you'll be able to see it by measuring your control pause. If you're getting out of bed and you don't really have much energy, then that can also be a sign of over training.
Health is massively underrated in terms of what people should be focusing on who have big training goals. If general health isn't great, it's likely to have a big negative impact on how you recover. Training is stressing the body, it's breaking down tissues and demanding the growth of new neurological pathways. Overall, it's the adaptability and resilience of the organism that is going to be challenged. We want that ability to be really high and the way we maintain high resilience is by being really healthy! Be aware of why you're doing what you're doing and know that your underlying beliefs will have a huge effect on how training impacts you. Placebo and side effects are very real—it matters how you think about your training.
Does your training system work?
Are you doing things that are smart for you?
It matters how you think about that as well as what you do. The mind is the first area to think about because it will make an instant impact on on your body. You know the way you might be thinking about what you do, if all of a sudden someone comes into the room with a gun your mind changes instantly—everything changes from that split second. Or if you feel deeply in love and you feel a strong emotion, you know that has an immediate physical, physiological cascade. So the mind is the first level of health and breath is the second. How much co2 do you have in your body? Are you able to increase your tolerance to carbon dioxide your ability to hold carbon dioxide in the body? If so, then you have an increased recovery ability. Dr. Constantine Buteyko presented about it in the 1960s in Russia and said that breathing is the the foundation for oxygen advantage. Some of the other work like Brian McKenzie's which has become more popular, Wim Hof, all that work speak to different areas of the same kind of thing, but increasing that co2 tolerance is a huge thing as well.
There's a lot more we can speak about diet would be another one to go into but it's it's a deep rabbit hole those are the areas to look to improve you shouldn't be getting niggles and you shouldn't be feeling like your training isn't great you also need to look at what you're trying you know what you're training when you're training it's a very deep you know question that you know I'm giving you some ideas of areas to look but we would have to you know go into a lot more and not have to know a lot more about you specifically to be confident that i could help you in the right direction but there are some clues of things to work on
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