Chronic overtraining?

Rowan Spear-Bulmer

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Hi Dr 8a, Here's what has happened: Between Chritmas and mid-January I'd been training pretty hard and not resting much, so by mid January i was pretty tired. Then rather stupidly i decided to try bouldering harder, was regularly doing font 7b to 7c; I had a few sessions on a font 7c+ over the space of a week. Then i felt really tired and decided to rest properly. I've been resting for over a month now and still feel weak (can hardly crank font 6c+), I've had muscle soreness mainly on my back, shoulders and forarms. Lack of fitness with jogging, high resting heart rate all the stuff that suggests overtraining syndrome I think. I'm feeling a bit disheartened at the moment because I don't have a clue when I'll be able to go climbing properly again. The muscle soreness has died down a bit, but my back and forearms are still feeling rubbish. HELP!! (I forgot to mention I've been under a lot of mental stress as well, exams and dissertation)

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Bjoern Alber

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Hi RowanGood that you are taking this seriously - it is-Sleep - eat- drink and then climb only easy and infreqvently for at least 3 weeks - you could take a daily dose of for example "Berocca" to boost Zink and Magnesium which often is depleted in these cases. I don't know your nutritional status but I will bet that you most proably should get som high quality protein in small servings 5 timmes per day - it will help in the rebuild best of luck Björn

Santeri Turkulainen

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Overtraining can really last rather long and tend to reappear. You should really do nothing for as long as it takes. Even if it means 6 months or year(s). Best of luck

Rowan Spear-Bulmer

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Alright cheers for the advice! I've been trying to get plenty of protein but not 5 times a day, will try out some Berocca. I wasn't sure if easy climbing would help since my shoulders were wrecked from carrying home the shopping the other week, was pretty heavy shopping mind! Hope this thing clears up soon!