Overtraining stresses the Central Nervous System too much. I've experienced this during one week when I used to train daily for boxing competition. My mind felt pretty off and I actually got sick on fight night. It simply does not allow the body's recuperation process to deal or catch up with the amount of damage present in one instant.
i dont believe in over training to a certain extent. Now im not saying i would train a body part 3 times a week unless it was calves, but nutrition goes a long way. theres no overtraining just undereating
I believe age, training maturity and genetics play explainable rolls in this debate. What ever your goal, over training is real and easily obtainable. Personally, I strive to over train each week. Over-training is the mark of real success for me. Each month I choose 3 body parts to destroy. As I write, my delts are burning from typing. Many times I've worked a bodypart into uncontrollable spasms that lasted for dayz. I've always mimicked the pros (Ronnie Colemans workout) and yes over training is so damn real. I pewk atleast 3 times per week. Ive worn my CNS and immune system down many times making myself literally sick. I pushed through all that sh*t. but then the joints starting aching unbelievably. Motrin and prescription pain meds became my power through tools (this is my personal journey which I DO NOT endorse). I often wonder if Ronnie or Arnold ever had my determination (LOL). I've made great gains; but was the additional 4 pounds at the end of the year worth this?........... Hell YEA Baby! AND I'm doing it all again tomorrow. Light weight baba!!!!!!!!
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Train like a Beast
Eat like a Dog
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Sure it exists, but most don't train hard enough to get there. if you're eating how you should, sleeping like you should, drinking enough water, and supplementing properly, there is no reason you shouldn't be able to go balls to the wall every training day week after week. That being said, though, you must be realistic. Looking at what i just said, it is easy for those things to go awry if you go too long in the gym, or too often. if you spend 3 hours in the gym, chances are you missed a meal during that time, unless you ate one immediately before and immediately after. If you get to the gym after work at 5-6, and train until 8 or 9, are you cooking right away for tomorrow? Are your meals prepped and ready to go or are you going to have to stay up until 12-1 to get everything done? If so, there goes your sleep. I think we are quick to blame overtraining, but honestly I think it is a mixture of failure to do things efficiently. Will you have bad days? Of course. Were they from overtraining? Take a look at what you did yesterday and find out.
To believe in overtraining one must believe in undertraining...how do you propose we qauntify undertraining?
I think this debate is pointless, I always have.
Good luck.
MACHINE
WOW MAN U NAILED IT!!
Really this debate is point less. One should train according to his body and mind... he must understand his body and make his mind push it to extereme but when the body says it enough... it is enough.
And during all this process. One should watch his protein intake and his carbs and most important HIS REST!!
I wouldn't say the debate is pointless because people want to know where the fine line between stimulate and annihilate lies.
I like to tell my clients to make sure that they are Hungry, Happy, and Horny(i didn't make that up although I wish i did). When these things are in check, its pretty safe to say that you are not 'overtrained' or more appropriately 'over-fatigued.' There are many factors to consider: sleep, sex, appetite, stress at work, stress at home, relationships, weather, kids, training quality, frequency, etc… to single out training alone is a little silly yes…. but it is not silly to take into account general health and fatigue…when you are fatigued or full of stress and cortisol….you will not be recovering optimally. And if you are not fully recovered…your training, along with other aspects of your life will suffer, for example sex drive…appetite…attitude….hence the hungry, happy, and horny. Just my two cents.
How do you expect to run with the wolves at night if you spend all day stuntin with the puppies?
It's my feeling that most people who think they are "over-trained" are in fact "under-trained". Or more simply not in good enough shape to handle the workouts. Do my legs get sore when I squat 800? no. Did they when I squatted 405 in college? Yes, because they were under-trained. It's also the case that if you train heavier than your technique is really good for, you stand the chance of beating yourself up MORE then you've stimulated your body to even benefit (risk vs reward). This is where sub-maximal or percent training comes into play. Train with weights you can improve both your strength AND technique with not weights that are so heavy that you can't recover as fast as you can get stronger...not to mention you're making your technique worse every time you lift with bad technique. There's a proper percentage that, depending on your skill level in the lift, allows you to benefit in strength by lifting heavy, allows you to get BETTER (read: technique) because it "challenges" your technique but doesn't ruin it, and allows you to benefit in getting jacked because you can maximize the volume that you CAN recover from. It's either a downward spiral (what is wrongly called "over-training" and is actually just building worse technique as you try to continually lift heavier weights and when your strength plateaus and then regresses--your technique stays as bad as you just made it lol) OR you can get bigger and stronger and BETTER--which is why when someone passes off their lack of progress by comparing the ease of newbie gains to their current struggles... they were limited by technique deficiencies when newbie gains stalled just like they're limited by technique deficiencies now...
Bottom line... please do not confuse "overtrained" with "under-trained plus bad technique" and go bench or squat...
Dan "Boss" Green
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