I currently lift Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday or Sunday doing Stronglifts 5x5.

I'm getting back into Judo after a two month hiatus to get married.

I'm worried that lifting three days, and having Judo Monday, Wednesday, and possible Friday and/or Sunday may be too much, especially for my legs.

Is this too much? Or if not, are their any signs I should look out for in terms of avoiding injury?

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interested to hear the answer, as i train judo m-w-f and was hoping to start a stronglifts program on t-th-s as well.

How much sleep you get?

Generally speaking two easy ways to tell.

If your resting heart rate goes way up, you may be overtraining.

If you fail to make progressive linear gains early on in starting strength, you are overtraining.

How much sleep you get?

Generally speaking two easy ways to tell.

If your resting heart rate goes way up, you may be overtraining.

If you fail to make progressive linear gains early on in starting strength, you are overtraining.

Sleep, 7.5-9hrs/night.

Resting heart rate is in the high 50's

My gains in Stronglifts have been slow, but steady.

Adding stronglifts to a 5 day a week MA program is quite potentially going to cause over-training. When i tried to do this i felt like absolute **** at the start of the second week at work even while sleeping 9 hours a night and eating perfectly. In training i stopped paying much attention and started gassing in the judo warm ups and was pretty much always fatigued.

I think to avoid overtraining you have to gradually increase your work load. It would be a stupid idea for an unfit person to start straight off at judo 5 days a week but you can handle it fine now, likewise for you making the jump to essentially the level of a professional fighter. If you are going to add stronglifts i'd start with 1 lift a week initially, the inverse for adding judo to stronglifts. Personally i know my body can't handle stronglifts + hard ma training even once a week so i use a different workout.

Sounds fine for now. Just keep a log of your HR and sleep hours.

Do you wake up feeling nervous or anxious? Is your heart rate elevated upon waking? Do you have trouble sleeping? Is your mood affected? Do you feel sluggish and tired?

These are symptoms of overtraining. If you start to feel this way, back off some.

Judo 2 days a week paired with 3 days of lifting can work. 3 days of Judo may put a slight strain on things.

You have to ask yourself which activity is the primary and which is the supplemental, and adjust. If you're lifting to supplement Judo, and you find that you're overtraining, cut the lifting down to 2 days a week or 3 times every 2 weeks. If the other way around, adjust accordingly.

so how the hell does GSP actually manage to train 3 times a day? If I train twice it affects my next day's performance

so how the hell does GSP actually manage to train 3 times a day? If I train twice it affects my next day's performance

Simple....

He is not human.

Do you wake up feeling nervous or anxious? Is your heart rate elevated upon waking? Do you have trouble sleeping? Is your mood affected? Do you feel sluggish and tired?

These are symptoms of overtraining. If you start to feel this way, back off some.

I wake up feeling good most days, after a cup of coffee, I feel great.

I've never had my waking heart rate above 60bpm, it's usually 54-56bpm.

I also sleep like the dead.

I'll assume I'm ok unless something changes.

so how the hell does GSP actually manage to train 3 times a day? If I train twice it affects my next day's performance

Work capacity of a horse due to years of training paired with superman genetics paired with potential chemical assistance paired with nutrition plan put together by NASA paired with elite training staff paired with lifestyle suited towards nothing but training.

so how the hell does GSP actually manage to train 3 times a day? If I train twice it affects my next day's performance

He has the Chi

yeah.. a mixture of chemical assistance and chi would definitely do it

I had a similar schedule up until recently: lift 3 days/week, Judo 2 days (~6 hours). The real trouble for me is joint pain. Knees, fingers, shoulders, back. Chin ups and deadlift today + grip fighting tomorrow = chronic finger pain. I guess it depends on your age, but my joints don't recover like they used to.

I've cut down to 2 days/week lifting. It seems to be helping.

When I was a young superman. . .

I trained 3 hours a day, six days a week,
played basketball and handball everyday,
played baseball, basketball, softball and
volleyball leagues all year, ran 3-5 miles
a day, and swam a bit after a circuit type
of weight workout.

I slept 3-4 hours a night, and went to school.
Weight stayed at 202# at just under 8% body
fat. Yeah, a bit of over-training. LOL

Just so you young guns know. . .
yes, you do pay for that later, unless you take
proper care of yourself like Emevas has advised!

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