Originally Posted by
Gawain
HI,
Among the phenomena which take place during training, overcompensation and the way it works seems to be the one I find the less inormation about. Can anyone please explain what are the things that are actually happening during the overcompensation phase?
Your 'fitness' (whatever you are targeting) is at a certain level. You stress it. The body (during recovery) overcompensates for this stress and builds your 'fitness' to a slightly higher level. If you then stress it again at this new level - rather than while still stressed (no recovery) or letting it go back down to the original level (too long of a recovery) - the body will overcompensate to an even higher level. The trick is figuring out when that peak is. – TF