Overtraining is relative. What matters is managing fatigue by tracking recovery capacity, which depends on training load, nutrition, sleep, stress, and lifestyle. The goal is adaptation, not just recovery.
How do you manage fatigue versus overtraining? So overtraining is a misnomer because one person's overtraining could be someone's optimal range of training. So we really got to look at it as and from the lens of fatigue management. It's looking at how well people recover workout from workout. Now that is going to be quite unique depending on the person, and these factors that you can look at is obviously your training load, your training volume, your training frequency, nutrition, sleep, lifestyle stress, and general stresses that are going to be onto the body. It really is understanding the frequency of which someone is able to recover because there is a difference between adaptation and recovery. We always, when we have the ability, we want to help people adapt to the training stimulus rather than just recover. Consider those factors in putting together a program and consider those factors in terms of your training, as you don't want to be burning the candle at both ends.
