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Here's one for you experienced players.
For a couple of years I went at it twice a day sometimes doing a 1&1/2 Swim & 5 Mile Run on the same day & doing the same type of double exercise routines 6 days a week
My main exercises are
swimming
Running, Jungle Trekking
Lifting (free weight & nautilus)
Nordic Track &/or Elliptical
I now I feel I was overexercising & it was counterproductive
Now I only workout twice a day a couple of times a week & take at least full day off a week. I feel more powerful after resting longer especially after heavy weight bearing exericising
Now I usually swim 5 days
Lift 2 days + Nordic Track or Ellipitical
Run 1-2 days
& only do two sessions a day like I said a couple of times a week & I feel better, more powerful & more energetic
I used to weight training three days a week & as one of two daily workouts
For weight training now I alternate between Nautilus 2/3 days break, Freeweights 2/3 days break, & back to Nautilus etc
I also try to make one of my weight days a one workout day so I have chance to recuperate for the next day (usually Nautilus where I really push my limits)
My question/problem is with swimming (naturally) & nordic track/ellipitical (by increasing resistance settings) if you exercise 'hard' enough you are moving form strictly aerobic to anerobic territory so then you may be just 'tiring' out your muscles & not doing that much good
Of course, from what I can tell, there are about a million different opinions on this from personal trainer & specialists to just gym or poolrats
So what do you guys think
What say you experienced ones on the subject of overexercise?
By the way this frees me up to spend more time doing moderately active (for me-active as **** for him) things like teaching my son to shoot hoops or taking him on slow jungle walks where we talk & I teach him about nature etc. He being of mixed parentage & having to change schools as we move around I'm also teaching him a bit of boxing (I'm a realist, little boys are brutal) I bought some real quality pint size boxing equipment in Thailand where they start training boys at a young age. He's 5&1/2 & soaks up what you do with him like sponge so every hour spent with him is truely developmental
For a couple of years I went at it twice a day sometimes doing a 1&1/2 Swim & 5 Mile Run on the same day & doing the same type of double exercise routines 6 days a week
My main exercises are
swimming
Running, Jungle Trekking
Lifting (free weight & nautilus)
Nordic Track &/or Elliptical
I now I feel I was overexercising & it was counterproductive
Now I only workout twice a day a couple of times a week & take at least full day off a week. I feel more powerful after resting longer especially after heavy weight bearing exericising
Now I usually swim 5 days
Lift 2 days + Nordic Track or Ellipitical
Run 1-2 days
& only do two sessions a day like I said a couple of times a week & I feel better, more powerful & more energetic
I used to weight training three days a week & as one of two daily workouts
For weight training now I alternate between Nautilus 2/3 days break, Freeweights 2/3 days break, & back to Nautilus etc
I also try to make one of my weight days a one workout day so I have chance to recuperate for the next day (usually Nautilus where I really push my limits)
My question/problem is with swimming (naturally) & nordic track/ellipitical (by increasing resistance settings) if you exercise 'hard' enough you are moving form strictly aerobic to anerobic territory so then you may be just 'tiring' out your muscles & not doing that much good
Of course, from what I can tell, there are about a million different opinions on this from personal trainer & specialists to just gym or poolrats
So what do you guys think
What say you experienced ones on the subject of overexercise?
By the way this frees me up to spend more time doing moderately active (for me-active as **** for him) things like teaching my son to shoot hoops or taking him on slow jungle walks where we talk & I teach him about nature etc. He being of mixed parentage & having to change schools as we move around I'm also teaching him a bit of boxing (I'm a realist, little boys are brutal) I bought some real quality pint size boxing equipment in Thailand where they start training boys at a young age. He's 5&1/2 & soaks up what you do with him like sponge so every hour spent with him is truely developmental
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