As someone who used to suffer from burnout, under recovery, injury and overtraining. I find this to be a useful little visual that I refer back to in my mind often. So I decided to make a graphic for it.
Handstand practice.
Too little :
Not enough work is being done for the body to receive enough stimulus to warrant any adaptation. If applied to skill work there is simply not enough repetitions being done to grasp the movement or skill in any reasonable time frame.
Small break throughs and bits of fleeting understanding are forgotten between the large gaps in frequency.
An example I like to use when someone trains handstands once a week is “Day 1 Car drives out of the garage 6 days pass and car reverses back in... day 1 Car drives out of the garage... etc.”
Too much :
The body does not have enough time to recover from excessive amounts of stress and volume leading to burnout, injury and decreases in performance.
At this point some people believe that this signals the need for even harder training. They continue to push themselves breaking down the body and mind even further. Hard work needs to be balanced with hard rest.
Balanced :
Training is tempered and balanced with rest, downtime and good nutrition. Frequency is high enough to grasp and develop new skills but the body is also given the recovery time and resources to adapt to the physical demands placed upon it, and become more conditioned/stronger over time.
