The Boom Boom Performance Podcast

Overreaching is an accumulation of training and/or non-training stress resulting in short term decrements in performance capacity with or without related physiological and psychological signs and symptoms of overtraining in which restoration of performance capacity may take from several days to a few weeks. Non-functional overreaching is the step before overtraining and is hard to describe. Some have said that it is a short-term version of overtraining that is easier to recover from. However, there is very little research on non-functional overreaching. Overtraining is an accumulation of training and/or non-training stress resulting in long-term decrement in performance capacity with or without related physiological and psychological signs and symptoms of maladaptation in which restoration of performance capacity may take several weeks or months. Symptoms of overtraining: Acute and chronic immunosuppression which leads to increased risk of illness Mental health issues: depression, anxiety, and lowered libido