There is Such a Thing As Overtraining, Beware! When IGF-1, MyoD & Myogenin Plummet and MAFbx Gnaws Away Your Muscles, It'll Already be Too Late to Acknowledge
Overtraining is real and it's blocking future and reversing past gains. I am well aware that somewhere out there in the broscientific spheres of the pseudo-experts on the various bulletin boards of a world people call the Internet statements like "there is no overtraining, just undereating" are not uncommon. And in fact, there is a certain connection between the effects / symptoms we usually associate with over training on the one, and the consequences of under eating on the other hand. It's a perfect synergy, if you will - a synergy I have been writing about in the past (suggested read: "The SuppVersity Athletes' Triad Series" | read more ), but it's not what the most recent study from the Sao Paulo State University in Brazil is about (Alves Souza. 2014). Overtraining comes in two forms If this is not your first visit to the SuppVersity the phrases "sympathetic" and "parasympathetic" overtraining will probably sound ...