“I suspect that most climbers with symptoms of overtraining are not doing more volume than their bodies can handle. Instead they are often suffering from zero variety in training. Always training at the same wall, same rock type, same scene, same anything?” -Dave MacLeod
Sound like you?
In this article from his site onlineclimbingcoach.blogspot.com, Dave MacLeod suggests if you’re losing motivation or your mood is changing about your training, start by trying something different. The lack of variety in your training could be causing that feeling of overtraining.
But it’s also very well possible that you have added more volume than your body can handle and you may in fact be overtrained. If that’s the case, Dave shares some options to explore to recover from it….
“Remember that rest from training is only half the picture – don’t forget to reduce other inputs of physical and psychological stress, eat well, get a change of scenery and generally give your body a chance to get well.”
He talks about how to look for the ‘real’ cause of the overtraining symptoms, how to introduce a short reduction in training load (plus some TLC for the body), and how to taper properly to peak for a project.
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