I am working these muscle groups twice a week, and am making progress. Am I overtraining?

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Mon Wed Fri Bench Press, Bicep Curls, 40 min moderate cardio

Tues-Thurs-Sat (I'm not sure what you call these lifting exercises, so I'll describe them)

Lawn Mower pulls with dumbell

Dumbells in hand - lift shoulders

Weight tied to dow rod with rope, roll up and down with arms extended

50 lbs on bench bar behind neck with hands in center

40 minutes moderate cardio

I do all resistance training to failure, 5 sets at about 80% max. (I know I need to start working my legs!) To me this seems like a pretty good regiman. I'm looking for insight for ways to improve my training, your experiences in training. Also interested in supplements such as creatine & glutamine, I've been taking these for 2 weeks I've been training for about 7 months and want to make my workouts really contribute twords gaining mass and defintition. I'm a vegetarian, 6 to 8 meals a day, whey protein, superb diet. But building muscle on a vegetarian diet is difficult. Thks for your input

Answers:
keep cadio to minimal,change exercise(shocks muscles they get use to same process)4 to 5 sets on chest, 3 sets on biceps start on weight just below heaviest then heaviest then scale down weight but higher reps. ie:start with sets of 10 reps then 8 then up to 12 with lighter weight ,no more.I'm also vegetarian bulk can be built(usually a lot leaner ) found protein supplements ok but good to get meal down before them as they can kill appetite.Some glutamine can be animal based.Creatine ok every so often ,regular use is waste of money.Eating regular is key,train heavy but not too long.

No you are okay when you ovver train your body stops listening to the mind because the tissues have been broken down and you can barelly move and then you force your body into another workout and you damage the tissues and that takes time to heal and sometimes you have to get it repaired. So when you feel hurt not stiff but hurt your body is telling you something so just stretch and sleep sleep is the best healing. Keep working it will pay off!!!!!!!

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