Intensity is the key to muscle growth, right? If you can’t find ways to push your body to new limits it has never seen before, then you’re probably not going to be able to grow new muscle. It’s important to enter the gym, and leave the place knowing that you did everything you could to stimulate some growth during that training session. Unfortunately, that can lead to situations where you train too hard – and end up making less progress than you would be seeing by training a bit with a bit less intensity. Here are some warning signs that you may be going too hard on yourself in the gym. You can’t add any more weight on the scale If you can’t get bigger – no matter how much food you are eating – there’s a pretty good ...

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While chasing the perfectly chiseled bodies, body builders are prone to overdo it especially in competitive professional body building. When a body builder goes overboard while in a workout, we usually say that he or she has overtrained. Overtraining is therefore engaging in extremely long and rigorous workouts until a body builder exceeds his or her optimal workload potential. Exceeding this optimal workload pushes the body tissues to a point where recovery is impossible. Instead of stimulating muscle growth and development, overtraining kills the muscles already developed and risks the entire body to grave dangers. It is sometimes hard to understand why a sane body builder will over do exercises which are not usually easy or sugar-coated. Is it enthusiasm, foolishness or ignorance that can make an individual take an overdose of work? Most people dread a thirty minute visit ...

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Apart from the outside, overtraining portends serious problems on the body’s metabolism and sometimes fatally. Some of these hazards brought about by overtraining are mostly found within the metabolic system. They include muscle tearing, depletion of the cretin phosphate, accumulation of lactic acid, irreparable damage of the tendons and muscles that connect the joints and other important body organs. These adverse effects are usually permanent while some can be checked but could take time to heal as well as exposing one to one of the most excruciating pain one has ever been exposed to. Overtraining is not a cup of steaming cappuccino; it is a serious hazard to the body and life of a bodybuilder due to the myriads of fatal effects experienced within the entire body, bringing about lethal irreparable damages upon the cells of muscles and tissues. The different ...

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