Overtraining?

[URMaster]

Quick Question.. I've been back at the gym for about 6 months and have made some nice gains in size and strength. Night and day from when I fisrt started. Lately, Ive been getting alot more sore than usual. I would expect to get sore when starting out but at this stage in the game im wondering if I am over doing it. Typical routine is only 9 sets for chest, back and legs. 6 set for tris, bi's and shoulders. I work each body part every 4 days.

For the past few weeks. Ive been doing kind of like supersets with the first 3 sets of excercise. For example, Tricep pushdowns. Starting at maximum weight for 10-12 reps, dropping weight 20lbs then doing 8, dropping 20lbs doing another 5 reps. This would equal one set. It really gives the muscle maximum strain. I do three sets of these then change excercises to another standard tricep set. Like ropes or dips.

My real question is, is it normal for a muscle group to get decently sore this far into training? Am I overdoing it with my suto supersets? sorry for long winded post.

[yodaddy]

ive been seriously training for 3 years now and still get sore all the time, i love the feeling of waking up in the morning and being sore it makes me feel accomplished.........

[URMaster]

ive been seriously training for 3 years now and still get sore all the time, i love the feeling of waking up in the morning and being sore it makes me feel accomplished.........

Cool, i wont worry to much about it then. Probably just means im hitting the muscle good lately. Thanks for info. Anyone else want to chime in?

[Superhuman]

being sore is good - my legs ALWAYS are sore for 2-3 days after a leg workout. yesterday when I got home from my chest/tri workout my chest started cramping up - so I knew I had an awsome workout.

[freakonomiks]

hows ur training split?

[Superhuman]

mine or URMaster's?

[END-RAGE]

IMO ull know ur overtraining when you never feel like traning and u have consistently no desire or excitment when traning. you will alsobe constantly tired. Being sore i think is the thing that everyone tries to achieve after a workout (being sore, not injured)

[novastepp]

personally if i overtrain, i cannot get to sleep or i wake up all teh time and i am restles at night.