Overtraining is GOOD for You (TRUTH ABOUT OVERTRAINING!)

How to ensure you never overtrain again (and see faster results)

I admit it I was wrong I’m actually an advocate of overtraining I’m going to tell you guys all about my about face [Music] today what’s up guys Jeff Cavalier athleanx. com overtraining by far one of the issues that I’ve talked about most responsible for undercutting the gains of our natural drug- free lifters right because never allowing your body enough time to rest and recover certainly can undercut your body’s ability to grow muscle as you tap into resources that are more survival in nature rather than they are about embellishing or gaining that being said guys I have to change my mind on this matter of fact I’ve been wrong all along I’m actually an advocate of overtraining I am and what sparked that was actual comment that I got on one of our other videos related to the overt trining video I did before in that video If you guys haven’t seen it I’ll link it over here I show you some of the real world correlations between Crossing that fine line right where stimulus becomes something negative after a certain point and it’s not it wasn’t I mean it the point of showing all those different examples guys was to be able to show you that there is this fine line if you have a suntan or a sunburn there’s obviously this line that you cross from which one becomes the next the same thing when it’s medication if you’re dosing yourself there’s a point where that dosage is proper for treating your condition to the point where it can put you in the hospital or in the ground well this is the comment I got on the video it says right here I’ll read you here people today look at overtraining as a negative thing however that’s not the case at all if you’re looking to build some muscle on those guns you have to go above and beyond if you just work out this hard or so many hours you’ll just maintain what you have however if you overtrain your muscle muscles they’ll work more than they’re used to and then they’re forced to grow guys anybody familiar with athletex or from my recommendations on training if this is the definition then I’m an advocate of overtraining overtraining meaning putting in more effort than you’re used to or than you’d have in the previous workouts is a prerequisite for change remember our bodies are resilient to change going back to our ancestors the idea of muscle energy consuming muscle mass and muscle tissue at a point where you didn’t know where your next next meal was coming and you were fighting for survival every day was a completely inefficient use of your body’s resources nothing has changed genetically guys adding muscle is still a challenge as many people watching this video or searching YouTube for these types of videos could attest to but that being said if you’re going to do it you’re going to have to give your body your resilient body body a reason to grow a reason to change and that means you’re going to have to lay out an effort in that gym in that workout that you’re not comfortable with you’re going to have to push above and beyond to cause your body to force your body to change and if that’s what overtraining is then I am an advocate for that right I said it all along guys you can either train hard or you can train long but you can’t do both so that presents a little bit of a problem guys that say that they train for two hours and three hours and four hours and it’s necessary and it’s it’s how a real man trains and it’s it guys that’s not true it’s not necessary you are crossing that line or you’re not training hard enough or you’re taking something or you have won the genetic Lottery and what I always say about the guys that have won the genetic Lottery is this if you have you should know it by now right you should have known probably by the time you were 12 and you were shaven that you won the genetic Lottery and when you were you know twice as big as every kid in your class you won the genetic Lottery when you can dunk by the age of 13 you won the genetic Lottery right but most guys are not in that category so there are some people that fit that mold very very very few and if you think that listening to that definition of overtraining is going to help you in your cause I can tell you it’s not you can’t just arbitrarily throw words around and say this is overt trained because unfortunately you get guys that believe that overtraining is what it’s not overtraining guys where I come from comes in a completely different form overtraining where I come from is a physiological neurological condition that’s backed by thousands and thousands of research studies that that analyze blood chemistry analyze blood hormones analyze neuromusc muscular changes decreases in strength grip strength because you just can’t create that mind muscle connection anymore neurotransmitter burnout these are all real conditions that relate to real overtraining which is what I do not Advocate and which is where I believe we sort of tend to cross that line the longer those workouts become in my world guys if I were to walk into the general manager’s office of an NFL team and say guess what I’ve got you covered this year right coach I got you we’re going to overtrain everybody this year we’re going to be great I’d be fired within five minutes right because we know that that is not the what people want to hear overtraining in this sense of the word the real sense of the word is a negative thing it will always be a negative thing it’s a negative medical condition it’s not make believe it doesn’t exist in fairy tale land it’s actually true and I can tell you if you’re somebody that has felt an apathy for working out if you haven’t put on any size in the last year of your training haven’t added any significant strength have felt tired in any of your workouts to the point where I’m saying tired where you don’t just don’t have the you just don’t even have the desire to be there you should definitely be tired by the time you’re done with the damn workout definitely be tired I’m not talking about fatigue I’m talking about going into a workout with no energy going in there feeling like you’re dragging ass from from rep one if you find that you’re aching joints pains aching with no discernable Reason Not muscle aches muscle aches are good guys that means you’ve trained and you’ve created the damage necessary to cause that growth I’m saying generic muscle aches muscle pains things that you cannot describe things that have no reason or or cause you’re probably overtraining and if you’re that guy that’s been going to the gym for an hour or more or two hours or 3 hours some of this other nonsense four five six hour people write on these comments you’re not training hard enough and you’re overtraining or you hit that genetic lottery or you’re taking something all right but the fact of the matter is overtraining exists if you want to if you want to try something guys we’re all about advocating trying stuff if you want to try something do me a favor try to do less and see if it’s more for you I’m pretty much willing to bet that n out of 10 times it will be more for you you will see a better response to your training by cutting back giving yourself another rest day shortening that workout a little bit upping the intensity like never before upping the intensity remember here’s one little analogy for you if I had a gun to your head and said let’s do a set of 10 squats you’re max weight for 10 reps when you got to 10 I said I need you to do two more on pulling this trigger You’ probably be able to get two more reps out right and when you’re done with those I said I got one more for you or I’m pulling this trigger you’d get that other one out how many of those sets do you think you could do cuz those are the types of sets that are required to really cause change to give your body a reason to change if you think you could do that for the next 6 hours or three