Currently, exercising is becoming a trend among urban people. Exercise is good for your health. However, if you exercise more than 5 hours / week, you run the risk of overtraining. What are the symptoms?
- Excessive thirst
Have you ever felt thirsty despite drinking enough? If so, you may be overtraining. Overtraining can cause your body to be in a catabolic phase, which then makes you dehydrated. The key to overcoming it is to make sure you drink enough during exercise and when resting.
- Muscle ache
It is normal to experience muscle pain 1-2 days after exercise. However, if you still experience muscle aches 3 days after exercise, try to take a break from sports activities. Muscle pain can be a sign your muscles have not fully recovered, and if the muscles are still forced to work instead it will interfere with the formation of your muscles.
- Insomnia
Excessive exercise can make you have trouble sleeping. Although it is true if exercising can be one solution for those who have trouble sleeping. However, our body needs time to regenerate cells while resting. Therefore, try to always sleep and do not do any activity from 22.00-02.00.
- Depression
When exercising the body will release the hormone endorphins that can make us feel good. Conversely, if we exercise excessively or overtraining, you will be more at risk of getting depressed.
- Easily hurt
Exercise is one way that we can do to avoid the disease. But if we exercise excessively, the body will experience a catabolic phase that can lower the immune system and make you more susceptible to illness.
- Easy injury
Do you often get injured even though you have warmed up enough and stretched the muscles? If so, you may be overtraining. If you exercise excessively, your body has no time and opportunity to rest. As a result when you start exercising again, you become more vulnerable to injury.
- Decreased self-esteem
When you exercise excessively, you tend to become "obsessed" to constantly exercise. This way of thinking will make you become obsessed and continue to feel less. This feeling will then make you become unconfident, irritable, and depressed.
