The sports world is a very hectic and competitive arena, where success comes almost by luck. Because of this, athletes tend to want to train hard to be best, making their muscles stronger and faster to win favor with the coach.
But this can have adverse effects on your body, including breaking down muscles, disease, frequent injuries that keep you out of the game for long periods of time and many others.
To deal with this, a variety of steps can be taken to keep him away from over training, including the following four.
1. Develop ways to deal with your emotions
As previously said, the major reason why athletes over train is the desire to be successful. This puts serious pressure on you mentally, driving you to do extraordinary things and measures and putting strain on your body.
To deal with this, find other activities that you can do to take away the pressure from stress training. Either spend time with your family then or even see a psychologist to talk about it.
Find other healthy ways to deal with these emotions than just working out.
2. Plan
Plan out your life, when you will exercise what type of exercise you will practice and much more. Let the plan be realistically and set out clear boundaries of when you expect to stop exercising and stick to it.
3. Gather people around you for support
Have a team of people that you can talk to that are not involved with sports or fitness. It could be your family or people you specifically hire to advice you. These people should be able to see things that you do not and hence be able to advice you.
If they can be around you when you are working out, it would be helpful, as they would be able to stop you going on when you have reached the limit. For this reason, you could select your coach to be advice you, if he is honest.
4. Mind change
To successfully stay away from over training over the long term, you need to change your mindset. This is possibly the hardest point of all, but it has got to happen and it may not happen overnight, but be a gradual process.
You may even have to leave the sport world or regularly attend and keep hearing advice, conferences and tapes about how to deal with the problem.
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