traditional stances and muscular failure

[neigung]

each week i've been adding time to each of my stances (10 seconds to each of 10 stances, right and left when applicable). currently i'm reaching the muscular failure point with a few of the stances (2 of the single weighted stances). here's my question - do i add another 10 seconds this saturday or should i continue at my current time until i can maintain the stances?
thanks.

[Becca]

wait till you can maintain them.

[Serpent]

Listen to Becca. Wise is she.

[Laughing Cow]

Wait and keep the current time.

You will know when it is time to extend.

FWIW, read an interesting article today about over-training and what it takes to recover from it as well as how it can affect your WHOLE life.

Cheers.

[WinterPalm]

Do you have a post to the article or can you tell us about it?

[Laughing Cow]

Originally posted by WinterPalm
Do you have a post to the article or can you tell us about it?

I checked for it online, but couldnn't find a copy.

Let me get the major points:

Symptoms are the same as a clinically depressed person:
1.) intense fatique
2.) lack of motivation
3.) body aches
4.) sleep problems
5.) frequent illness
6.) depression.

Recovery period:
3~6 months for over-training
1~3 weks from over-reaching (less severe version)

Bassically they talked about training philosophy change from "The harder you work the better you get" to "The smarter you work the better you get" .

Most frequent problems came from people that competed and trained 4~7 days a week, as their performance dropped they tried to "power/force" their training in order to advance with the result that they spiraled further down.

When they re-adjusted their program to less training their performance picked up again.

Nothing really new I think, but it would be nice to have had a link to the study on which the article is based.

Was a rather short insert, I think more to fill space.

Article by Martin Miller from the Los Angeles Times.

Hope this helps.

[Becca]

I found it but you gotta pay for it, as it's in the archives.

[PLCrane]

Here's the article from June 15,2003
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlot...th/6098250.htm

Here's a medline search for review articles on overtraining. Have fun.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entre...m_uid=12392446

[mortal]

there is no overtraining in chinese wushu. Just lazy students who don't know what they are getting into and people making excuses. Its all in the mind. Just keep pushing.

[Merryprankster]

there is no overtraining in chinese wushu. Just lazy students who don't know what they are getting into and people making excuses. Its all in the mind. Just keep pushing.

Ah, see, unless you're kidding, this just makes you a retard.

[ewallace]

Feeling a bit feisty today eh MP?

[Merryprankster]

Well, it's a phenomenally dumb statement. And I'm not exactly known to pull punches, am I.

[rubthebuddha]

merry -- you're a grappler. by definition, you don't know how to punch at all.



of course, the same logic means i don't know how to grapple. crap.

[GunnedDownAtrocity]

haha

[Mr Punch]

LOL at the above!

Hmmm, Mortal, but not much longer at that pace...

but who knows, will he make the transition to immortality...

or will he just carc it?