I don't workout hard enough

This is what I usually tell myself almost everyday. When I saw myself making progress physically, i couldn't help but to want to see more, to make more obvious progress, and then i wonder, "If i push myself every single day, maybe i'll reach my goal sooner!". So i made myself workout everyday, Monday-Wednesday-Friday I'll do HIIT, Tuesday-Thursday-Saturday I'll run and normal lifting. Sunday I'll go to the gym at my friend's place and do a full body workout. All because I've started working and started to feel that I'm not so physically active as before.

And I was wrong.

It's not until today, that I'm feeling all worn out, slight ache all over my body, fatigueness and basically, sore. What depressed me most isn't the pain, but instead i wasn't making any progress in my results. It then resulted into irritation and minor depression. (i know, i know, i'm dramatic i guess) Initially (and probably in denial), I blamed my PMS that caused all those negativity. I gave myself excuse. How bitch am I, and I thought i was right. 

Then this morning staring on my screen at this desk in this office in this company, I started to surf around, Google around and I came across to this.

"Overtraining syndrome frequently occurs in athletes who are training for competition or a specific event and train beyond the body's ability to recover. Athletes often exercise longer and harder so they can improve. But without adequate rest and recovery, these training regimens can backfire, and actually decrease performance."

http://sportsmedicine.about.com/cs/overtraining/a/aa062499a.htm

It actually decrease performance of being physically active. So not only I am overworking my body, I'm actually sabotaging it?

And when I continue reading it, here it says;

Common Warning Signs and Symptoms of Overtraining Syndrome

• Washed-out feeling, tired, drained, lack of energy
• Mild leg soreness, general aches and pains
• Pain in muscles and joints
• Sudden drop in performance
• Insomnia
• Headaches
• Decreased immunity (increased number of colds, and sore throats)
• Decrease in training capacity / intensity
• Moodiness and irritability
• Depression
• Loss of enthusiasm for the sport
• Decreased appetite
• Increased incidence of injuries.
• A compulsive need to exercise

So, I guess if there was a box beside the list of signs and symptomes, i could've ticked almost everything.

(READ MORE TO KNOW ABOUT OVERTRAINING SIGNS, SYMPTOMES AND WAYS TO OVERCOME IT)

Hmm.. so MAYBE i was a little overboard with working out. Maybe mom was right, I should take things down a notch. But I'm still learning, nevertheless. Now that I know that my body can only take so much, it's logical for me to have one or maybe two rest days..

So, the lesson learnt today was,

NOT TO OVERWORK YOUR BODY, your body can only handle so much.

IT'S OKAY TO REST but that doesn't give you the reason to eat shit.

Continue with eating healthy, loving yourself, never deprive yourself from anything. As the infamous saying, YOLO, make sure you make full use of your life, because you'll never know when's too late.

Treat your body right. And here's a bible verse of the day.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 -"Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body."