Originally Posted by
rms13
Train smarter not harder. I think most people that are serious about a sport overtrain. .
No way. Overtraining is rare. Most people do not come even close to overtraining.
It took me months of 23-29 hour weeks to overtrain, and then took months and months to partially recover from and nearly a year to fully recover from.
Now overreaching and plateauing and even burning out (temporarily for some, permanently for a few) certainly happens more often. But physical overtraining, not so much.