Thread: Am I over training?

I alternate my training for each body part every week (e.g. Barbell curls one week, dumbell curls the next etc) and train 3-5 sets for each exercise and do 3 exercises per workout (again, an example being barbell curls, preacher curls and concentration curls etc).

My rep ranges tend to be 10,8,6,4 or 8,6,4,failure. I know it's best to mix up rep ranges etc, but I feel I respond best to heavier weight. I do the odd drop sets and flush sets at times too.

My only concern is that although my strength has increased and I've put on size, I'm worried that if I train heavy all the the time or even to failure mostly, whether this will affect my gains.

I know heavy weight taxes the joints and tendons but I've been fortunate not to have sustained any injury for a long while, and that it's a strain on the CNS. I believe I'm eating enough calories (recently upping my protein and carbs) to cover it all, but just wanted to know if this way of training, correct diet or not, will only do so much before plateauing etc.

For one thing you are not overtraining based on your sets and reps per exercise/muscle group. As for your plateau question, you always have to change up the scheme of things if you want to keep growing and keep lifting heavier weight. Try a different rep range, or supersets, or drop sets, etc... sometimes to spice up ur workouts and shock your muscles. This answer your question?