Over-exercising cannot continue indefinitely without taking a toll on your adrenals and your body. Many factors need to be considered. For example, some people eat well, others eat sugar and junk. Some make time for play and rest, others are workaholics who rarely take time off. In addition to individual habits, everyone is born with his or her own particular genetic predisposition and adrenal reserve. (Adrenal reserve does not mean the amount of adrenal hormones your adrenal glands are capable of producing over a lifetime. Adrenals reserve is the capacity of your glands to continue to meet the demand at any and every given moment.) A person who is born with a healthy adrenal reserve and has good living habits might be able to get away with over-exercising for many years. I think it is safe to say that nearly everyone who reaches the age of forty has burned out some amount of their adrenal reserve. Therefore those, like Grace, who over-exercise past forty will feel the consequences.
If you are a Diehard, start listening to your body. Fatigue and weight gain are clear messages from your body that you are over-doing it. ” Giving up jogging was traumatic,” Grace said. it was big part of my identity. It’s an ego thing. I tried power walking, but I felt like hiding behind a tree when someone jogged by me. When I took up hiking it was a new challenge, but it wasn’t the same as jogging. I started practicing yoga then. I still miss jogging, but now, at fifty, I’m doing handstands, headstands, and backbends-things I couldn’t even do as a child. So I feel that I have a new challenge, and that is something I thrive on. More important, yoga doesn’t deplete me. I can go into a class feeling run-down and come out feeling energized. It’s the way I felt twenty-five years ago when I got my second wind.”
Grace was surprised that she found an exercise that she liked will much as jogging. There are alternatives to extreme sports that will engender adrenals regeneration that will make you feel better and lose weight, and are likely to make you live longer.
There are exceptions. Over-exercising can be beneficial for those, for example, teenagers and young men, who have more energy than can be easily burned off in our sedentary, technological society. Too much energy can be a setup for trouble, whether it is a nuclear reactor or a flash flood or a human body. Exercise gives these people a venue for using their energy constructively and pleasurably. But our habits have to change as our bodies change with age.
OVER-EXERCISING CAN RESULT IN:
Cartilage degeneration Sick, achy feeling after exercise
cravings for sugar, caffeine, and Symptoms of hypoglycaemia such as foggy-headedness,
other stimulants shakiness, irritability, and lack of mental clarity
Fatigue Weight gain
Insomnia Muscle wasting
Premature aging
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