Originally Posted by
wolfchild
Exercising and training isn't the same thing...To all the people who say that overtraining isn't real, I say that the only reason why you don't overtrain is because you never do any real training...All that you're doing is just exercising to burn few calories with hopes of loosing some weight. If you really trained with any real intensity and frequency you would very quickly realize that the possibility of overtraining is real...Riding a 100 mile century in zone 2 and then living a sedentary lifestyle for the rest of the week isn't really training...or goofing around on a treadmill and stationary bike in front of a big screen TV isn't really training.
Nah. Overtraining takes nearly pathological commitment.
Lots and lots of people putting in 15-20 hours a week of periodized training without overtraining.
It takes months of overreaching to overtrain, and that takes a lot of denial/delusion that you're handling the training plus a lot of apathy towards severe fatigue and general exercise-induced suffering.
Overtraining is definitely real, but it's definitely not common. And it's certainly not a result of "really training". "Really training" should not lead to overtraining, as that would defeat the purpose of said training in the first place.