Subject: RE: Training through fatigue good or bad? Training through fatigue can be good and bad. On some level, you're going to be tired, and you need to push through that.
However, I disagree with the manner in which you are doing it. I would not try to increase your intensity in every workout; you have seen the results of this, namely skipped workouts and an overriding sense of feeling beat up. You aren't training through fatigue with this. You just beating yourself up with no recovery. Eventually, your body will force you to recover, usually through either injury or burnout.
Being tired is one thing, being beat up is another. The saying "There's a fine line between hardcore and stupid" comes to mind right now. It seems to me you are starting to cross over that line. Doing hard workouts a couple times a week is alright. But not every day.
Setting PRs in training is nice; setting PRs in races is even nicer. You keep hammering like this, you are going to end up leaving it on the training course and won't have much left come race day. |