 Next question is from Matty stew how to know when you're training too much for your goals Yeah, well the easiest way to know if you're doing too much is if you're not progressing now Of course, that could also mean you're doing too little so you think well Which one is it if you're not progressing and your sore and you're tired and you feel run-down You're doing too much not progressing and also knowing that you're working hard Oftentimes means sometimes you're also doing too much Lot of sleep disturbances is a big one for me like that one shows up pretty early I noticed I just I'm restless in the middle of the night I just I wake up a bunch of times and then I realize like I think I'm pushing myself a little too hard another one And I used to notice with female clients Often was was that their inability to regulate their body temperature. So if they were trained too hard They would be either really cold or really hot or just have a poor tolerance to heat or to cold And then I knew like okay, we're probably Overdoing it, but this is a this is something especially if you're a fitness fanatic Start to become aware of this because fitness fanatics are far more likely to do too much than too little now the average person Other way around they could use a little bit more work Well, I also think that the the ultimate goal regardless if you have Specific goals with your physique is to get to this kind of intuitive place of training And if you're always focused on an end goal or result you'll never get there You have to learn to enjoy the process and the journey and do it for other reasons than just oh I've got this race or I've got to do this show or I've got to lose 15% body fat and you're tracking and measuring Then you lose out on the old the whole journey thing and I think that and that's kind of how I'm reading this question right now Because it's kind of worded different right? It's like it's not like how do you know when you're over training the body? It's more like how do you know when you're training too much for your goals? Like when you're I like we should kind of step away from your goal and focus on something else To come back to your goal to you know progress you instead of just hammering this very specific target Yeah, I think when you know you're training too much for your goals is when you have to have goals in order to go to the gym Oh, if you have to have a goal that you you're trying to go after which by the way is very Normal advice that people give like you know you need to set the goals and you need to have all stuff like that It's not a long-term approach. Yeah, it's not it's not bad I'm not saying it's a bad idea But if that's the only way that gets you to the gym is that you have to have this destination in mind that oh I have a competition or I have this race. I'm gonna do it is not a long-term approach No, or I have friends I'm competing with we put all our money in the pot like okay Maybe not a bad strategy to kickstart But you don't want to stay there at one point you need to work out because it enhances all aspects of your life And you enjoy the process of doing that's how I judge it now I judge it by the quality of my life in the present is my workout making my making me better on the podcast Is it making me feel more energized when I get home and hang out with my kids and my wife? Yeah strong and able-bodied. Yeah, does my body feel good or my workouts super enjoyable And then that's how I'll judge it and if those things start to decline in my case It often means I'm doing too much because I'm more on the fitness fanatic side Hey, if you enjoyed that clip you can find the full episode here or you can find other clips over here And be sure to subscribe