During my training sessions for competitive full-contact karate tournaments, and indeed amongst many of my peers in other sports, there was always the feeling of the need to train longer and harder to see improvements.  This lead to training days that felt flat, heavy and tiring, resulting in a circular battle of wanting to train harder, because performance in a previous session was sub-optimal; from there we start to see Overtraining Syndrome occuring.  However, as I wrot