Thread: Over training is it a myth??

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[COLOR="red"]Have a read at this chaps.......its a C & P

I read it a few years ago and frankly thought it was just for the genetic elite..BUT i have learned a good few things over the past few months.
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Would like your thoughts please??

I get pm'd this alot, when ive mentioned how often iv trained, when i played pro sport, and a few times from newbies who feel like training more,

some ask becuase they wake up each day not sore and full of beans to hit the gym 7 days a week,

those on first cycles,

well, here is my simple scientific take on it..

I feel overtraining is a myth. In the conventional sense.
It doesnt matter how often you hit the gym, its not the muscles you ever have to worry about.

mUSCLES are mechanical. purely mechanisms made up of fibres that move weight.
Its purely the nervous system that actually gets trained. which is why people can not be physically sore yet mentally they feel fatigued.

Later on in another thread i will document how i take clients into mental fatigue to then rebound new physical growth

its this nervous system that sends messages to the muscle to contract. its the organ grinder the the monkey (muscles)

Muscles, if we date back to slavery, are purely there for skeletal support, and movement. Its like saying the liver is under stress. thats its, and their job. They grow as a direct repsonse to stress, ie. they supercompensate for stress so as to protect the body.

The bodys nervous system operates on neuro transmitters. now these are passed from one neuron to another over the synapses.
now muscle neurons known as motor neurons are the ones which cause muscles to contract.

now your body has only a finite supply of these chemical messengers. AS the body can only deal with a certain ammount of stress at a time

people forget the body has to deal with its own issues too, such as metabolism, various recovery prosesses, the sensory system, the autonomic nervous system etc. these all require energy and in laymens terms "effort".

so the body unless it decides to pack up and die has to do all this whilst delivering these messages to the muscles.

Now if your body only had to deal with this, you could do it all day.
Hence why pro bodybuilders, who eat sleep and use large amounts of "supplements" can in my eyes not really overtrain.
Limiting all stresses such as mental stress, work and social stress allows the body more free time without fatigue factors to keep recovering these supply of signals and keep the muscles firing, so you can then feed them and they can grow back bigger and stronger.

Now in normal active life this doesnt work. we have life issues, coughs colds, gf/bf stress, so the body has alot more than transmitting neurons to make you the next jay cutler.

So if we exhaust these supply of chemical messengers our muscles fail to adequately fire and we are in a state of what is called overttraining.

Funnily enough, the reason i touched upon social factors is becuase in science this overtraining state is closely mimicked in clinical depression.

You see the body is purely a stress organism. It take one factor in and fights or flights. food in..energy out. muscle stressed- grow bigger to adapt or shrink to avoid being able to put itself under that stress.

Genetics and 3 main factors control how quickly you recover these neuro transmitters.
The best time to recover them is when you sleep.
so the more sleep you get the more they recover and the more you can train. this is fact.
Gh, vitamins, minerals all help the body to better utilise sleep.

This is because if your immune system is strong, your body has the surpluss energy and effort to restock if you will neuro transmitters.

Homeostasis is the biggest pull factor the body has. It will revert to your genetic "safe point" at all costs. so if you train balls out, dont sleep, no ammount of aas/peptides can help these neuro transmitters restore stock and you will overtrain.

This is why those with demanding jobs should seeks to train less, sleep more.

You must always think wat else which the body must do to stay alive is being done before it even thinks of growing metabolically active, calorie burning, heavy, blood rich new muscle mass. If your body is not doing its basic functions you will not grow.

To sum it up, overtraining can virtually be a myth in the conventional sense.
Sleep more, keep your body hydrated, which is the most overlooked nutrient. nothing can function if not hydrated from muscle contractions to the body being active.
make sure your vitamin and mineral levels are correct as again if the body can function properly via the kidneys, liver, and other processes you do not have a hope of it letting you build muscle tissue.

You were born with the ammount of muscle pre set you would need, the rest is suprluss and the body will attempt to stop you.

Pros dont take more gear and peptides, they just rest more and eat better.