11/13/2025
The Strava addiction is real. More miles, more vert, another race, more, more, more. Over a long enough time horizon this leads to overtraining and overtraining leads to decreased performance, decreased health and injuries.
5 signs you are overtraining:
1) You aren’t motivated to train. Unless you are lazy by nature, if you are not somewhat motivated to train, your body is telling you something.
2) Decreased sex drive. Men should be waking with an erection everyday and experience 3-4 erections at night demonstrating healthy testosterone levels. Woman, if your emotional needs are met, you should have a natural drive.
3) Weaker than normal grip strength. We all know the mornings you roll out of bed and your grip is weak, that’s a good day for a rest day.
4) Increase or decrease in appetite.
5) Irritable. Unless you are normally an a*shole, being snippy and short may be a sign you need some rest.
More is not better. Better is better. Meaning if you train, live and recover smart, you will continue to see outstanding progress long term, and feel good doing it.
