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jochemwestert on February 12, 2023 at 12:37 am · in reply to: non functional overreaching recovery #75606

Thank you so much for your assistance! I’ll take this wise (rest, food, etc.) advice seriously. Looking back, I think in general I should have taken more and better rest and listen to the subtle signals of the body (such as residual fatigue after a recovery week). I am very motivated for training goals (such as a trail event in the Alps), but that can also be a problem. By the way, overtraining (although not to be underestimated) does not necessarily mean the overtraining syndrome right?

@Nalle4. I assume you are carefully rebuilding training now. Good luck!

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jochemwestert on February 8, 2023 at 5:58 am · in reply to: non functional overreaching recovery #75483

A workout during the rest week, my heart rate seemed slightly lower (approx. 5-10 beats per minute) than normal. That was the workout where I first noticed that my legs felt heavy. On later light exercise sessions, I don’t see any noticeable anomalies, so I’m not sure. Coincidentally I did month ago an energy metabolism analysis and this shows that the heart rate from pace to sprint decreased slightly instead of increasing. Perhaps this could also be an indication.
From now on I will use a training log 😉

Thanks again for advices, much appreciated!
Jochem

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jochemwestert on February 7, 2023 at 6:25 am · in reply to: non functional overreaching recovery #75446

Hey Thomas,

Thank you very much for your response! It is a planned rest week. During that week I noticed that the fatigue increased rather than decreased. In addition, I noticed that short light runs suddenly caused more fatigue than i was used to. Although the fatigue lasts for a long time, no other alarm bells start to ring (such as high resting heart rate or mental issues).

In theory i know the guidelines to avoid overtraining. But in practice, I can imagine that I sometimes took the training blocks more seriously than the rest weeks (starting a new block of training without the legs feeling completely refreshed).

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jochemwestert on May 3, 2022 at 2:57 am · in reply to: What to do when recovering from ME workouts #66496

helpful comment, thanks

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jochemwestert on May 1, 2022 at 10:47 am · in reply to: What to do when recovering from ME workouts #66429

I’m also dealing with the same issue. I don’t go to extremes with strength training and I don’t do intensive running training the day after.

For some guidlines see articles about concurrent training or see the folowing paper: Doma K, Deakin GB, Schumann M, Bentley DJ (2019) Training Considerations for Optimising Endurance Development: An Alternate Concurrent Training Perspective. Sport. Med., 49:669-682

By the way, I’m also curious how others on this forum combine strength and endurance.