Apply these quick workout recovery tips to avoid overtraining…

1. When you're done training apply a solid post workout nutritional strategy. As soon as your done with your resistance training workouts drink a post workout recovery drink like Biotest Surge. And then an hour or two later eat a meal full of good carbohydrates and protein.

2. Get at least 6-8 hours sleep every night. I lean towards 8. Some people do just fine with less. I wouldn't let it creep under 6 hours though. If you need to, take a nap in the day to make up for a little of what you missed at night.

3. Go one rep shy of failure on most sets. If you can 12 reps in perfect form with everything in you than do 11.

4. Think positive. Negative and worrisome thinking will stress you out and force your stress hormones to rise which not only make it hard to recover from your workouts but it will cause your body to hold on to fat.

5. Meditate. Shoot for at least 10-30 minutes per day. If have a hard time getting into a relaxed meditative state check out Holosync, it's awesome technology.

6. Don't train the same muscles two days in a row, with the exception of maybe abs, but even then do different movements.

7. Don't do resistance training more than 4 days per week

8. Don't do resistance training for more than an hour at a time. For most people 30-50 minutes is best

9. Eat enough quality proteins, carbs, healthy fats to stay strong and drink plenty of good old H20

10. Get regular messages and ART treatments (Active Release)

Just remember while training is important, recovery is equally important

By Chris M., Orange County Personal Trainer