overtrain blues
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christri25 posted 3 years ago.
that the thing abut the sport. you have to want it. if it was easy everyone would do triathlons. go get a massage.
Chris
``It's not as if I'm going to sit around and be a fat slob,''
Lance Armstrong 2005
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kylie posted 3 years ago.
Massage is a great idea... or go volunteer at a tri. I find that seeing or talking about them gets my enthusiasm up again. Or take a few days off and be lazy and then make the training a treat again....
Good luck! I'm just breaking out of post-big-race-of-the-year blues... and trying some of the same things :-)
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Amy Lee posted 3 years ago.
your body and your mind are trying to tell you something... so listen...it's ok to take time off. don't beat yourself up for needing to take a break (short or long) from training. not that you are this bad off- but i took a decade off. i was so overtrained in my early thirties that i didn't want to go near a gym for almost ten whole years. now i am back in the endurance lifestyle and i can't get enough of it!
so relax and pamper yourself... massage, jacuzzi, maybe buy some new exercise gear or sign up for a new race, sometimes it's easier to train when you have a definite goal or event to work towards.
good luck!
i know i just posted about something else, just i have to get this off my chest
i am loosing the will to train, and it is pissing me off. i find it harder and harder to get my ass of the couch in the morning and get on the bike and go even though it is a beautifuk day and there are a ton of other bikers out there to ride with. its sat morning in southern california and it is going to be 70 degrees outside, but i just dont wanna go.
i hate this feeling, you know the feeling where you love the lifestlye but for some reason hate the aspect of training and just getting going raises your anxiety level through the roof making it be a chore rather than fun. my body seems mre sore too, which makes me anticipate more pain. my endorphins just arent working for me.
i need some help with this, ideas support something, i am hurting yoou guys..