I used train myself way to hard bc:
1. My old Master Scott trained hard
2. My old ROTC instructor was very, very, very, strict and trained us ridiculously hard. Harder than most people care to believe.
Bc of this type of training and thinking, I was never satisfied with my training until I felt like crap after I was done. I felt like puking, my body was shaking from severe muscle fatigue, etc. Though I was exceptionally fit, and even won medals and broke a record once, it got to the point when training was no longer enjoyable and instead of looking forward to training I dreaded it.
In short, don't be like me. Your body needs time to heal and repair itself. If you never give your body time to heal, you will end up losing body mass and muscle and do more harm than good.
But you know your body and limits more than we do. Just don't overdo yourself.
Hope that helped.
You are training too much.
Exercise does not build up - it tears down. It is the rest you get after exercising that allows your body to heal and regrow tissues. For a healthy person, this means one day of rest between heavy workouts. If you keep going the way you are, you will lose muscle strength and eventually suffer major repetitive motion injuries to your joints. That means why the time you are in your 20's you will have severe knee, hip, elbow, lower back, and shoulder problems.
Like many young people, you mistakenly think that if something is good, then more of it must be better. WRONG. You cannot get better just by quantity of training. There has to be quality in your training. That means training focused. correctly and precisely EACH time you train. Just as you made the wrong assumption about training, you also did the same with eating. It is not how much you eat that is most important, but how well you eat - that means good quality nutritiously dense food instead of junk food. It means getting the proper amount of vitamins, minerals, and proteins.
Everyone needs time to rest. Your body actually gets stronger when it's repairing the damage from training. Overtraining is actually really bad for you, and some say worse than under training.
I'd suggest you plan at least one or two rest days a week. Also mix up easier days following more intense days. Mixing up what you do will keep it fun and enjoyable.
Also don't be afraid to take a week off at least every 6 months and better yet sooner if you feel like you're getting run down.
Remember training smart is the key
Here you go again KW knocking other martial arts and showing your true colors. You make comments abt others and other martial arts but when someone else does it and tells the truth and you get upset and defensive. Hmmmmm it is a double standard with you. BTW you also like to give misinformation and lead people down the wrong path. Your showing your ignorance and lack of knowledge again. And you keep contradicting yourself from one answer to another.
@Metalchick...Your going to burn out. You have to tone it down a bit. Just look at saturday and sunday. Cut something out or reduce the time your practicing. Your also doing circuit and cardio the same day. I see also your doing HIIT and resistance same day. You need a balance in your training. You need to give your body a break and you need to rest. You do not have a day of rest or less activity. Your body needs to rest and heal every so often.
I would tend to agree with him and looking over this schedule I would consider shortening some of those hour sessions to 45 minutes but upping the intensity of them. Also the same goes for the two hour sessions and I would definitely shorten them to an hour or ninety minutes at most. Two and three hour workouts tend to lose their effectiveness if you are really working out after about 90 minutes because that means you are not pushing yourself hard enough in order to last for the full length of two or three hours then in a lot of cases.
You also don't have any days where you rest and I would not look at it in terms of a week but instead two to three days of working out and then a day of rest and then two to three more days of working out again followed by another day of rest. That would be basically an eight day schedule but probably better in a lot of ways for you. It would allow you to rest your body some and time for it to recover as well as help keep you from getting burned out.
With the type of things you are doing there and the length of workouts you will need to eat a balanced diet. That should include protein as well as fruits and vegetables along with other things like monitoring your water and calcium intake.
Trust me, you're doing WAY too much for your age..Listen to your coach, he/she is right. It seems like you're attending EVERY class. I suggest dialing it down to about 3 or 4 days a week. Its very unhealthy for a 15 year old--or anyone, for that matter--to be studying martial arts, doing cardio and calisthenics 7 days a week. You're gonna burn yourself out if you continue like this.
As far as eating goes that depends on our goal whether trying too gain loose or maintain your weight.
Im confused as to how your doing all these different styles and types of training because this would cost around 1000 dollars a month.
@Jokyo your obsessed with KW aren't ya?
How do you have the time to do all of that? The teenagers at my dojo barely have time to show up for a 1 hour class twice a week.
You're not as fit as professional fighters, you're not even a great fighter, therefore it makes no sense to compare yourself to how they train.
Also why do you train so many things?
Practice practice practice.
Do you think Bruce Lee got to where he was because his coach said to him to not overtrained...no
Same with chuck liddel Randy cotour and all the other mma champions
Practice makes perfect
My coach says I overtrain but compared to great fighters, I feel like I train too little. My week is something like:
Monday - Boxing (1hr), Cardio (30 min), Circuit Training (30 min), Kick boxing (1hr)
Tuesday - Jiu-Jitsu (1hr), Weights (30min), HIIT (30min), MMA (1hr)
Wednesday - Taekwondo (1hr), Cardio (30min), Strength training (30 mins), Boxing (1hr)
Thursday - MMA (2hr), Resistance Training (30mins), HIIT (30mins)
Friday - Jiu Jitsu (1hr), Weights (30min), Cardio (30mins), Boxing (1hr)
Saturday - Cardio (45min) Taekwondo (3hr), Boxing (1hr), MMA (1hr), Strength (30min)
Sunday - Cardio (45min), Taekwondo (2hr), MMA (2hr), Weights (30min), Circuit Training (30min).
BQ: How much should I be eating? I'm 15, 105lbs, 5'2.
You train many things now go and test your self with champs eg boxer,kickboxer etc to know where you are.
