[quote]Airtruth wrote:
Tx5000 wrote:
First of all, Thanks for answering my post seriously (i know u guys can be pretty hard on new members of the forum lol).
It all makes sense when you say that overtraining is a condition. Isn’t overtraining all about increased cortisol level? Why didnt they just called it Cronic high cortisol level or something like that?
I have never understood how 6 hours a week with much sleep and good nutrition with training make you overtrained, while people in other sports can train 5 times more and dont get overtrained. Is it just (Cant find another word of using) overhyped?
When i tell people (also talking about forums) i work out that much and they see how hard i’m training, they tell me i have to chill down or else i will become overtrained. But i guess those guys dont know what theyre talking about.
And my progress is great, so i guess i shouldnt worry about overtraining, i havent noticed any sleep problems either, thanx to the ZMA, my clock has to ring for an hour before i wake up :P.
Airtruth: I do some cardio yes, mostly walking with my dog half an hour a few days in the week, and sometimes doing gerilja cardio on the treadmill.
I’m lifting beacause i want to compete at national level in bodybuilding or fitness, and if i complete that, maybe expand my goals. I also wanna stay healthy till i get old, and never be a skinny fat guy again lol.
I thought intensity had many factors like how much you rest between sets, how many repitions you do and stuff like that, and i see my own workout as a really intense one. But i guess i misunderstood, and i now see that it meens how close you are to 1rm.
Im think im gonna put in some sets of powerlifting to, since my strength doesnt increase very much any longer, but my size is growing like hell. Started 22 months ago on 114 lbs and im now at 187 lbs. Love my genes lol.
Well, thanks again for the response.
Someone answered your question beautifully above…
Fuck No.
OverTraining:
Not over hyped, it is over applied, seriuosly misunderstood by the average person. It is not simply higher cortisol levels. It’s the changes the body goes when training over a period of time while overstressed. A higher cortisol/testosterone RATIO is often a marker of over training. Over stressed does not necessarily mean purely working out.
There are a ton of factors involving stress including lifestyle, nutrition, sleep and training. It’s also a long period, not a day or even a week, keep it simple, estimate it to be a little longer than bootcamp with no break. So a young 17 year old whose hormones are already high, doesn’t ahve to worry about things like rent, who gets 6 hours sleep and 2 hours training every day is probably not overtrained.
Intensity:
Highly debated definition. Unless your refering to data, you should state what you mean by intensity when you say your doing something intense. An article will refer to intensity as % of 1 rep max, however that is just for building programs. Nobody on an internet forum can tell you how intense your training. When an experienced lifter is telling you to be intense they do not mean lift the weights.
They mean focus and push yourself through every rep of every set the entire time your in the gym. Whatever muscle you are working concentrate on feeling that muscle, before your set vison yourself blasting it. Bring yourself to a higher level.
Sometimes(not all the time) the people who abuse life, party and live wrecklessly are very successful. Thats because they live intensely. So they are applying that same mental intesity to the gym that they are applying to partying, which is the part you see when you ask yourself" how the hell do they build a body like that doing ________ all the time.
as to your original question:
Sounds pretty seriuos. It might be simple as check yoru breathing parterns while lifting. There are a ton of articles on the internet how to breathe so I won’t go into all of that. Just know that holding your breath while exercising can make you dizzy and puke, alot of people do this not realizing it when they get to the end of their sets. If not check your nutrition, but whatever you do try to resolve that problem.
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Thanks for your answer. Very appreciated.
As for the intensity, thats exactly what i ment.
Im taking my training very serious, live for it. Have only been drinking alcohol once this year (and smoked one joint lol), i get minimum 7 hours of sleep (This vacation, i fucked the summerjob, and instead dedicated to eat, sleep and train, so i sleep up to 11 hours at the moment) and my nutrition is pretty dead serious, so i guess i should just forget about the overtraining stuff.
I got another question for you guys:
At the forums ive been hanging around they say that a muscle need up to ten days recover, but i just can’t belive that our body is so slow. So ive been looking around on different sites , and it looks more to me that the muscle is fully recovered after 24-36 hours (though the nerve system may need som more recover, but get used to more and more training). Is the long recovery time just a myth, or do the body really need that much time?
And about the puke thing, that was only to point out how i hard i am training, dont think anything is wrong. I think i get dizzy because i have pretty low blood pressure, because water always help.