Does anyone know about overtraining?

* You're definitely going down the route of an unhealthy relationship with exercise. Addiction even.*

^This. You are addicted and need to seek help. What you are doing is not normal at all.

I exercise a lot, but your exercise regime is definitely excessive.
Is there a reason why you exercise so much?

PT is a great idea. You can set your goals and they’ll give you a safe programme.

I’m a personal trainer and an athlete, the most I train is 1 hour a day 5 days a week and I eat like a horse. Your regime is totally excessive.

How do you have so much time for exercise? When do you work, sleep, shop, clean, cook or do life admin?

I think it is really good you have taken a pause and are going to talk to someone. I feel the same as you about exercise though - it makes me feel great and is a brilliant stress-buster. I think as long as I am sensible with rest days and have a balanced and mixed regime, that is a lot better for me than the other stress-busters available (I barely drink, for example). And again, I would say it depends how those hours of exercise are made up. If I do a tough bootcamp on a Saturday (1 hr), then walk/cycle with a friend (3 hrs) then do some gentle Pilates with dh (1hr), that adds up to a lot, but only one hour of that was intense, the rest, for me, was just being active and having a good weekend. I am not saying this applies t you at all, but I do think it is important to distinguish between intense exercise that really takes it out of you, and having a generally active lifestyle that includes say walking and cycling as means of getting places/having fun/socialising.

I agree with the above, especially gentle restorative yoga, mindfulness, meditation, and progressive relaxation techniques

Maybe you are a bit stressed and overwhelmed and need to recalibrate

Jumping in with my two cents here... it sounds like potentially a combo of overtraining and under-recovering could be going on here. Training creates a stress on the body, and recovery allows you to well.. recover from that. Recovery would typically include eating enough (and a good balance of protein, carbs and fats - ie. all the macro nutrients, not leaving out carbs or something), SLEEP (massively important - and good restful sleep at that), and things like gentle restorative yoga, mindfulness, meditation, and progressive relaxation techniques (youtube it) can all be included there.

It sounds like you might be using exercise for stress relief - based on the fact you're kind of itching to do more now even when you rationally should be resting and are feeling out of sorts. Do you have other avenues for stress relief? That might be something to explore.

I think your mileage with a personal trainer will vary enormously depending on their experience and skill level. I would suggest looking into the work of Renee McGregor or Bernadette Dancy (both have a lot of info on instagram) for more specific stuff on overtraining, under-recovering, eating disorders and training for women.

Resting, eating enough nutritious food, and practicing other ways to relieve stress might be a starting point. If you don't sleep well, perhaps looking at 'sleep hygiene' would be useful to you too.

Sounds like you're massively over-training to me. To be honest, the fact that you say you've only "recently worked out that you MAY be overtraining" is a big red flag.

You're definitely going down the route of an unhealthy relationship with exercise. Addiction even. What are using exercise to escape from? Work stress? Or is there more to it than that? (I'm assuming yes as you really seem to be overdoing it).

I’m a semi professional sportsman, when I was a fulltime professional sportsman I trained for 12 hours a week.

How much are you eating?!

Maybe cut back on the high intensity stuff and focus more on yoga and average-speed walking, plus a bit of fairly gentle weight training?

Mmm..no-one here can tell you if you have been overtraining, or done damage. If you are concerned, do talk to your GP.

If you include slow cycling, yoga/pilates and brisk walking, I would quite often do hours a day of exercise, much just to go about my daily life/get places. For me, running (slowly!) and strength training are intense exercise, and I do 1-2 hours most days of them but take - and need - rest days. I haven't read or seen anything that suggests healthy active people need rest days from walking, cycling etc though.

I can sympathise as I've had to cut my own exercise in the past few years. I do 1hr a day and stay generally active. Glad the doctor doesn't think there's anything particularly wrong. In the meantime I'd stick to walking and more gentle exercise like Pilates (if you like it - I hate Pilates!)

I'm sure they would! I'd make sure your heart is all good first though! X

Unless you're an athlete that's a massive amount of training and sounds like an addiction/problem - definitely not healthy and in fact very bad for you in the long run.
I would consult a personal trainer if I were you and get some qualified advice and see your GP re your heart.