This line of thinking is often detrimental to the athlete. The body needs ample recovery time and variation in training to facilitate improvements in performance levels. To avoid over-training it is important to understand the bodies response to training and effective methods for planning training programs. New training stimulus causes soreness and a temporary decrease in performance.
Body adapts to training stimulus and performance increases.
Performance may decrease unless stimulus is changed. Periodization is the gradual cycling of workout intensity by breaking a given time period in to smaller more manageable units of time know as cycles. The Macrocycle is usually a year's training. The Microcycle is a portion of the Mesocycle divided into weeks consisting of each training session. A yearly training cycle usually consists of two or more Mesocycles.