Last month, I was in a poor sort of way. I’d wake up after 10 hours of sleep, eat my breakfast, then have to lie on the couch for another couple of hours. My heart was either racing or pounding and I’d lost my appetite. I felt like falling asleep every time I drove my car.

A bit too much of this place...

This was not ideal when the rugby season was just around the corner. I’d been really pushing it with my training, with 13 or 14 sessions a week, including a fair amount of travel. To be honest, I think it was the travel killing me; it was interfering with my recovery, meaning I wasn’t reaching “supercompensation” (adaptation) before my next session. When I allowed this situation to continue for 3 weeks, I was, as they call it, over-reaching, an early stage of overtraining.

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overreaching · recovery