Last Sunday, I had a very taxing 5 x 3 deadlift session in which I set a personal best and left all I had in the gym. I know the system most affected is the central nervous system (CNS) and that is a biggie.

Since it takes a while for me to recover from such a session, especially as I get older, here are my Top Ten symptoms telling me I may have trained too hard.

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I have discovered I’ve been taking a legal muscle enhancer for a while and never even knew that was one of it’s functions. Now that I know, I guess I am not taking enough!

What am I talking about? Well it seems taking daily recommended dosages of ibuprofren or acetominophen for pain and inflammation has an effect on building muscle mass…legally. Here is the study, done at Ball State’s Human Performance Laboratory, with implications for the adaptation to old folks to exercise and astronauts exposed to long-term weightlessness.

Ibuprofen or acetaminophen in long-term resistance training increases muscle mass/strength

What a bonus! I was happy enough the ibuprofren was reducing the inflammation; (I don’t think acetominophen is anti-inflammatory, though).