Hard work after hard workout...

[RockinItUp]

Recently I started working in the kitchen of a local restaurant. I get out of the gym from an exhausting workout and go to an even more exhausting workout at work. I bust my ass for about 5 to 6 hours a night 5 days a week doing tedious kitchen work which involves a lot of physical effort. After all I've read about overtraining and how to avoid it, I realized that my work might actually be leading me to overtraining. When I come home from work I can tell that my body has been working hard the whole night but I'm not so physically exhausted that I fall right to sleep. So my question to you all is that do you all see my work as a form of overtraining and if you all see it being detrimental to my efforts of gaining mass?

[CJNY]

Overtraining is not just doing a lot of physical effort. As the term is normally used it refers to a chronic syndrome characterized by an inability to recover from a workout, even if you rest for what would normally be a sufficient amount of time. It is often accompanied by moodiness, inability to sleep, increased susceptibility to illness and injury, unexplained weight loss and elevated resting pulse rate.

Your body can likely adapt to this work load without experiencing overtraining. If the job is relatively new, you could back off on your workouts (or at least not try to progress) until you get used to it. Leaving both days off as complete rest days should be plenty. While it's always important to remember that everybody is different, lots of people have physically stressful jobs and still benefit from working out.

For more on overtraining read these:
http://www.physsportsmed.com/issues/...603/hawley.htm
http://www.rice.edu/~jenky/sports/overtraining.html

[mustang GT]

Well after your workout you should take in more food, so sneak a lot of food in the restaurant.

[PoorBoyTek]

No deep fry!!!

Working at the restaurant would just be incorporated with your "daily activities", not with overtraining.

For example, If i am on my leg workout and later that day I go for about an hour walk in the park, I'm not overtraining my legs...the walk is just a part of my normal life acitivties that I would calculate with my caloric intake

[Julius]

watch ronnie colemans "unbelievable"
mr olympia and full time cop...yeah now tell me about hard work...

[scott1968s]

Welcome to the world we call life. Many people w/o then go off to work or go to work and then work out. As PoorBoyTek states it is part of daily activities. Once you get into a routine at work you should get used to it. Get the rest you need.