Please help! Is this over training?

[john_key21]

I have a plan to do intervals every morning except Sunday for the next two weeks as well as weights every evening except Sunday for the next two weeks. The interval training is as follows

******Morning Interval

Run a 5min warm up, then stretch

5min hard run

1min hard - 1 min easy x10

5-10min jog to finish

 

 

******Evening Weights

Just workout different groups e.g Chest on Monday, Shoulders on Tuesday, Back on Wednesday......

I have a Rugby tournament in two weeks and haven't done much training this whole year so trying to smash in as much as I can get in two weeks.

Over training???? Thanks

 

 

 

[AZIDE]

seems more like undertraining. doubt youll acheive much in 2 weeks either, but better than nothing IMO

[Pseudonym]

Intense cardio plus weights, 6 days a week? I certainly don't think that's undertraining. Although I agree with Azide - you'll have to be realistic in what you expect to achieve in a fortnight.
 

Just workout different groups e.g Chest on Monday, Shoulders on Tuesday, Back on Wednesday...... 

I think the key here is going to be your weights split. I suggest maybe a 5 day split instead, hitting legs twice:

Mon - Chest & abs
Tues - Legs
Wed - rest
Thur - Shoulders
Fri - Arms & abs
Sat - Legs
Sun - rest

That's still pretty hard going, but if you're only doing it for two weeks, you'll be fine.

[Phedder]

How long between your final training session, and the start of your rugby tournament? Honestly, that is a pretty big workload, especially if you haven't been doing much training lately. You can't go from 0-100, you have to get to 10, 20, 30 etc first. The body needs time to adapt to the workload. Now depending on what you have been doing, for say, the previous month, this could likely be too much. By the time you get to the tournament, you'll be exhausted. 

I'd suggest alternating days, Intense cardio on one day, and weights the next, with maybe a light jog after the weights (10-15min). You'll still get a small training effect, and your body won't go on strike before the tournament. Honestly, in 2 weeks you're not going to make that much of a difference. Why risk ruining the whole tournament when you can hold back a little and ensure you come in ready to play? 

And I'd suggest next time, be better prepared. 

[Dinahlady]

I doubt smashing as much as you can is going to make you peak for a rugby tournament - probably the opposite. Theres not much improvement you can get in 2 weeks and smashing yourself isn't going to help either. 

I mean have you ever tried training 2x a day, from nothing, for 2 weeks... I have and you will get really really tight muscles... recipe for disaster when wanting then going to play sport competetviely where you will push your body even harder. 

In other words, going crazy with shit never helped anyone - be sensible and realistic?

You'll just end up injuring yourself otherwise. 

In my opinion the only thing you can do is doing things lightly to ease into exercising again along with decent stretching to help condition you to make sure you don't pull a hammy or injur yourself when training or in the tournament.  -  at the moment your method looks like it would be the cause of an injury. 

You're body is not conditioned to the level of exercise you want to achieve. but diving straight into intense exercise isn't whats gonna help it- easing in will. So maybe a couple of walks first, short runs, then some intervals later in the week. All with stretching etc after to losen you up, keep it lower volume and make sure you're recovering and stretching.

Maybe a couple of gym workouts doing lower volume (not smashing out heaps of reps) and getting used to recruiting muscle fibres again. but you're really not going tobe getting many size or strength gains (other than neuromusclular) in 2 weeks - so smashhing weights at high volume (long workouts or higher reps) isn't going to help either. 

Just my POV. 

 

[Flex]

 

I have a plan to do intervals every morning except Sunday for the next two weeks as well as weights every evening except Sunday for the next two weeks. The interval training is as follows

******Morning Interval

Run a 5min warm up, then stretch

5min hard run

1min hard - 1 min easy x10

5-10min jog to finish

******Evening Weights

Just workout different groups e.g Chest on Monday, Shoulders on Tuesday, Back on Wednesday......

I have a Rugby tournament in two weeks and haven't done much training this whole year so trying to smash in as much as I can get in two weeks.

Over training???? Thanks

 

[Pseudonym]

Is it too late to change my vote?!

The posts above are much better than my bro-science. Go with them. Ignore mine.

*blush*