What's The Right Amount of Weight Training?

Sports History Network · May 5, 2026 · 14m

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I recently heard a weightlifting coach say that overtraining doesn't exist. That's a very broad statement to make. I know for a fact that overtraining exists because I was a victim of it. I overtrained for many years, believing the more you trained, the more progress you would make. I was wrong, and I suffered a severe case of tendonitis because of it.

And just as bad, I probably didn't make as much progress as I would have had common sense guided my…