The dangers of over training your muscles & how to combat them with Jym™

Whether you are performing cardiovascular or resistance exercise overworking your muscles is dangerous and can greatly alter your peak performance.

Thankfully a fitness product has been designed to help combat muscle fatigue from resistance exercise and can help you recognise the early signs of dangers ahead. Jym displays your muscle strength from various training positions and by keeping track of this data can help alert you when there is a weakness in a muscle group. This in turn helps you to appropriately rest the muscle group.

Jym is recommended to be used as part of every workout so you can keep a record of the progress of your muscle strength. Without adequate recovery time outside of the gym your muscle size and strength will not increase and in the case of an overtrained muscle most of the time it will lose strength. Give your muscles at least 72 hours of rest before training them again.

Some signs of muscle fatigue:

• Decreased performance (strength, power, muscle endurance, cardiovascular endurance). This can be easily checked by using Jym at every training session.
• Decreased training tolerance and increased recovery requirements. Again this can be monitored with Jym
• Decreased motor coordination
• Increased technical faults

If overtraining from resistance exercise has occurred, follow one or all of the steps below to get back training as soon as possible.

• Increase the number of recovery days between your sets
• Add variety to your training sessions to avoid over working a muscle group
• Avoid repetitive training
• Avoid performing every set of every exercise at every session with no variation. Jym can be used to avoid having an absolute failure during exercise using resistance training from the body
• Avoid incorrect exercise selection (overuse of certain muscles or joints)

Exercising should be fun and should not cause permanent injury if done properly. With a product like Jym you are more likely to maximise your performance and avoid over training your muscles which will benefit your overall health and wellbeing.