Give your body time to rest between hard workouts. If you push yourself really hard you need a couple of days rest. You can still be doing workouts during rest periods, but do different parts of the body or do low intensity stuff.
Yeah, I picked up on that, and I only do the high aerobic stuff on alternate days, I do really basic strength-building (abs/back, arms/chest) on the other days.
Right now you're highly motivated due to your progress and all the positive effects of becoming more fit. There is a very real risk of overloading specific vulnerable parts of your body, such as knee joints.
My key point of vulnerability is the lumbar vertebrae. I am in serious need of making sure I don't blow a disc there, especially when I'm wood chopping - its not the chop, it's the lift onto the block that gets me. I stopped classic sit-ups and moved to a crunch/leg lift for upper and lower abs and a yoga thing called Cobra pose for the back.
Thanks for the reminder.
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