I didn't realize a lot of the time was warm up/ cool down. I thought you were lifting weights for three hours straight. Your routine is a lot different from what I was thinking. I only spend maybe five minutes warm up and five mins cool down, so I thought you were doing dozens of sets with hundreds of reps.
But with that said take my advice with less than a grain of salt. You know your body and if you are getting stronger. I'm no expert. You know what works for you. I just like to talk about exercise.
In my routine, I can choose the stretching time (I have enhanced it from avergare recommendation, normaly it would be 10mins, but I do 15mins because Im very precautious). Same goes for cooldown excersice, this will also be in reply with PSD. My trainer told me that what helps to lose the belly is leg excercise which explains why I do 20mins cooldown and not the average 10mins normally recommended. But yes, its awkard that despite what I was told in my gym, I still ended up with 3 different excersices for abdominals. This is something I will ask tomorrow.
You are not by any chance talking about Tipness in Gotanda? That would be funny.
No, that is not my Gym and I dont live in Gotanda. But wouldnt mind checking it out. Everytime I go to another city and I find a gym, I enter to take a visitor tour even while informing that I already train somewhere else, the staff doesnt seem to care and will still show me around. Does Tipness have a webpage and a map?
[...]I'm still a little confused. Tues, Fri, Sat you do classes? Mon, Wed, Thurs you do weights?
My concern is the rest periods between workouts. You will certainly lose weight doing that but you probably are not getting any stronger or bigger muscles, especially if you're over 40. But if Friday's stretching and yoga is not very intensive that's not so bad.[...]
Everyday I do "kintore" weight lifting and on Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, once Im done with kintore (I "yuusen" give priority to weight lifting) I also enter the Studio. So for example my average Tuesday goes: Kintore + Aerobics + Stretching + Street Dance. Sometimes on Sundays I do two other courses. Mondays, Wednesdays also have Studio courses but they start from 18.00hs and I dont want to lose energy I would use for Kintore so for now Im not joining those. I was planning to join those like: Step Dance once I get a more fit body.
Im just turned 33, started at mid 32s.
Of course... I tookd this matter to my trainer today. After doing "arubaito" (dont know how to say this in English) at a ぎょうしゃ (Gyousha?) Transportation service, the kind of agency that helps civilians to move their belongings when they change home, only that I was ask to help office moving at Toyota. You all know training at Gym is expensive with the monthly fee, protein drinks, training wear, etc.
And after carrying heavy boxes during the whole day...today was my Lowet training day...kahanshin.
I will now proceed to tell my entire talk I had with my trainer. My gym has 4 types of trainers: Leader, Subleader, Pro Trainer and regular Trainer. Today I just happened to find the Leader of all trainers free, and the Sub-Leader was free to, but the Leader was closer.
He told me that there are 3 easy ways to find out if somebody is "OVER-TRAINING":
* Injuries, doesnt have to be at Gym. We all adults know what kind of accidents cause what kind of injures. If an accident causes you an injury that is way too high grade...then yout body is losing resistance and he gave me the explample of the typical cut that you just resolve with a "band-aid" and if something that is a small accident causes you an injury which would almost look too much, then that would be an easy way to think of Overtraining.
* The balance between "taiju shibou", "shibou" and "taiju" and "kinniku" = fat weight?, fat, weight and muscle.
If somebody is losing weight and at the same time loses muscle = that is normal.
If somebody is keeping same weight and at the same time loses muscle = then that is due to Overtraining.
* Also, if in your own weight-lifting menu, your score is decreasing, that is due to Overtraining, but then, I keep adding weight to my program with the same performance pattern so that makes me be in the safe side.
An extra fourth (which Im grateful to find out about it) is that my "mokuteki" goal? was to lose my belly and "karada igokishitai" become physicaly active?...and not exclusively Power Lifting or Body Building. Its usually in these last two type of Gym customers that Overtraining is more common. Im happy to know that because thanks to this thread and the talk I just had with my trainer that I can actually shift my Mokuteki to enhance my physical shape, so coming next year I will be changing mokuteki to body size enhancement and look bigger instead of just karada ugoki.
Then, he told me Programs can be selected to up to 5 splits (I only do 2 splits at the moment), and adding an extra split to a person becomes common on customers who had been training for years long and specificaly aiming for Power Lifting. Starters (shushinshas) are more likely to start with a single program that has no split.
Also that each program is different to each person because it is all customized to the body LEVEL and the FREQUENCY that person come to Gym.
Next two points can also be in reply to PSD's las reply which I didnt read until I finished todays training.
* Regarding Studio Excersice, he told me that I dont need to worry if I keep summing them up with kintore because they are not exacly kintore but a different type of excersice.
* People's reaction to repetitive training a same excersice for a specific area is different, some people might find this practice to be positive or improved condition...while others might result in negative and deteriorate condition. That it depends on each person.
Lastly, I asked if there was a way I could keep checking my body like going to hospital and have a doctor check me. My trainer answered that there is no way to scan Overtraining. Each person should self-analise based on how he/she feels genki/tsukare = okay or tired. Which in Japanese it is said 感覚 かんかく kankaku.
An extra easy way to check if somebody is Over-training (which would be the 5 method to check, sorry for the bara-bara reply) would be the loss of interest to continue the excersices and the will to come training. Like making excuses or not come for whatever reason.
I hope this information becomes useful to all of you, Im glad we talked about it because I learnt a lot today.
