Are you suffering from fitness burnout? You are overtraining

A training plan is made up of a few simple things—a schedule to build strength, a warm-up routine, a little bit of stretching to work on your mobility and some time off for recovery. Overtraining can happen in two ways—when you push yourself too much in a single session or when you push your body over a period of days, without allowing for rest days to recover. You need to put adequate stress on your body and then give adequate rest as well so that you recover for your next training session,” says Rahul Kaul, founder of Boxfit, a multi-model fitness centre. Too many of us have been led to believe in simplistic sayings like “the harder you work, the better results you get” or “no pain, no gain”. When someone starts working out too much, without properly building up to it, or without being fit enough, there is a build-up of lactic acid in the body.