The day after you try to lift weights again, but it seems like your arms have turned feeble. Having failed to do a single movement rep, let alone one complete set, for the day, you end up feeling lousy and question how you seem to have lost your usual physical stamina.

Sound familiar?

When athletes push themselves too hard during an exercise, they can suffer from symptoms that can oftentimes be called overtraining. For non-athletes, such symptoms are usually referred to as under-recovery, according to trainer Teuku Aufra Maretto, who holds a certification from the Indonesian Fitness Trainers Association.

Sports medicine doctor Sophia Hage explained that the symptoms included subjective perceptions of declining muscle strength and endurance.

“You might also sense your body aching more than usual, as well as a general feeling of powerlessness. Due to muscle overuse, you may experience sharp pain, like being pierced by a needle, or sometimes it can be dull pain also, as if someone has just punched you. Other times, the pain will only become palpable when you press on the overused spot,” she explained.

“On a more objective scale, you might also discover an increase in your heart rate when you measure it after you wake up in the morning,” she continued.

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