Overtraining?

[Pinnacle]

Do you think that training a body part 2x/wk is over training? My split is :
legs/tris
back/chest/cardio (30 min)
shoulders/bis/cardio (30 min)
off / sometimes cardio
Repeat
3-4 exercises/body part-- usu. 3 sets/ exercise

I don't feel tired at the gym, but, how do you know if you are over training a muscle group. How do you know if you are getting the maximal growth out of a muscle group or if you just keep wearing it down and over training?
Thanks in advance for any thoughts.

 

[quakin]

Are you gaining muscle?
Are you gaining strength?
How hard are you pushing yourself on each rep/set/excercise?

Sounds like you are doing too much volume based on what you've said. I see little point in training a b/part more than once a week. But the harder you push yourself the more rest you need. After I train back I barely have the energy to drag myself up the stairs let alone do chest and 30 minutes cardio... perhaps you're not really pushing yourself?

 

[gopro]

If you are not overtraining your muscles you are most certainly overtraining your nervous system. If you are of average genetics and are not taking steroids, than 4 days per week should be the most time you spend in the gym.

 

[Pinnacle]

Thanks for the replies. I actually am gaining a little muscle and losing body fat. I went from 120 lb lean mass to 123 lb and my BF dropprd from 20% to 18% in the past 6-8 wks. So progress is there, but slow. The recommendation I got was to lift 2d on one off, the 2d on and 2d off (the weekend). Wking out is a great stress release for me, so I tend to over do it, I guess. My goal is fat loss.

I don't have a partner, so I hit the muscles as hard as I can while still maintaining good form.

Again, thanks for the input.