I wanted to ask, just of curiosity, if there can be any link between overtraining and nightmares.
For the past four months I have had a too big training load - I increased it too rapidly and my body could not cope. I suffered from permanent exhaustion and realised at a certain point that it is likely I am a bit overtrained. So I took some rest and made my workouts milder and the chronic fatigue disappeared (though, unfortunatelly, my times are at the moment still quite poor :( - it will take probably some more time to get back to some better results)
A couple of weeks ago, while still quite exhausted, I experienced several nightmares within very short span of time. I was probably on good way to develop a neurotic fear of Freddie Kruger :D
Now, is it possible that this episode of nightmares had something to do with the overtraining?
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Thanks for the comments. I wanted to know how it is with those bad dreams because I am not a person who is prone to suffer from nightmares (at least I seldom used to remember having any). But at that very time when I experienced terrible fatigue due to overtraining I had so many such dreams. It's very likely that this frequent occurence of nightmares at that time was not accidental. Perhaps the nervous system is so much disturbed when you are exhausted.
Apart from those dreams I also had several episodes of panic attack. I used to suffer from anxiety disorder in the past. And it came back recently for a while when my workout was too heavy
Thanks for the comments. I wanted to know how it is with those bad dreams because I am not a person who is prone to suffer from nightmares (at least I seldom used to remember having any). But at that very time when I experienced terrible fatigue due to overtraining I had so many such dreams. It's very likely that this frequent occurence of nightmares at that time was not accidental. Perhaps the nervous system is so much disturbed when you are exhausted.
Apart from those dreams I also had several episodes of panic attack. I used to suffer from anxiety disorder in the past. And it came back recently for a while when my workout was too heavy
