[quote]martin blank wrote:
Lorisco wrote:
martin blank wrote:
Lorisco wrote:
A lot of people on this forum seem to think that overtraining doesn’t exist and then go to the gym everyday doing the same thing, busting their but, feeling crappy, and making little progress.
Who are all these posters that bust their but in the gym (and also eat a ton) that make little progress?
Ask CT!
My perspective is that that is not a simple question as you might think. Eating in itself gives an anabolic strength effect. Studies show that people who just eat their ass off and get fat also get stronger without having to lift at all.
So if you are overeating and training it is possible to overtrain, but not as likely. However, there are those who workout hard that do not want to get fat. They Gain, but at a slower pace. Yet they don’t have to cut later and don’t lose a lot of size at that time either. And again, this is the same approach the CT recommends.
Repeatedly gaining and losing fat is extremely hard on your internal organs.
While I am not a person that is afraid of gaining fat (I’ve gained 50 pounds and it has been a struggle- none of it is fat as I still look thin) I understand there may be those that are.
That said, the spirit of my post deals with people not progressing when you say they are busting it in the gym and feeling crappy. I just think it’s rare that that happens if someone is eating enough or not sick, etc.
Or, maybe they’re not really working that hard, as someone else said already (I think).
Overtraining possible? Yes. Probable? Not in my experience. Usually it’s undertraining and / or undereating.
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I’m sure that is the case for some. But I have also talked with a few guys who train hard to the point of getting sick (cold, flue, etc). But I do agree that some of that could be fixed by eating more.
Ps �?? 50lbs of non-fat weight gain it amazing!