Self-improvement thread! (pls no negativity or politics)

[Gustoo]

Overtraining is real. In the 70's a swimmer would swim like 5 hours a day hard and couldn't even eat enough calories to keep up with the burn and get faster. Gotta be smart and train based on your goals.

[unsunghero]

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Overtraining is real. In the 70's a swimmer would swim like 5 hours a day hard and couldn't even eat enough calories to keep up with the burn and get faster. Gotta be smart and train based on your goals.

Yeah I wasn’t really bringing up the grip strength as an indication of overtraining because I thought she was, I just found it interesting and a little tidbit I hadn’t heard of before that had personally happened to me before

There was a period of time where I would do squats (5x5’s), then run a fast 4 miles right after on the gym treadmill, then go do deadlifts, then a full 2 hour leg/ab/back/oblique workout. It ended up being close to 3 hours of super intense exercise. I noticed after some time I couldn’t hang onto the deadlift bar (I don’t use straps), and even it was hard to hang onto the pull-up bar. Then my entire body started to ache, joints, muscles, everything, and I started feel nauseous. Stupidly I had thought if I just ate enough, it would be ok, but the body couldn’t recover from that. I was also getting poor sleep. But yeah, the grip strength going, didn’t know about at the time but that coulda been my warning

Some elite CrossFit athletes have actually given themselves rnhabdomylosis, which is where the muscle fibers break down into the blood stream and DESTROY their liver as it tries to filter them. Horrible shit, wouldn’t wish it on anyone

Once again, I didn’t mean to imply pink-grapefruit was overtraining, I just thought that tidbit about how to recognize it was interesting and wish I had known it