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Overtraining, Undereating & Self-Inflicted Hypothyrodism: Thresholds for Low T3 and High Reverse T3 Levels at 8% & 15% Reduced Energy Intake + Exercise After Only 4 Days!

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This is not a "woman thing" only and your T3 levels are not the only thing that's going to "fall flat" if you starve yourself through your workouts! Yep, low libido => low total testosterone => low free testosterone => hypogonadism, that's what we are talking about, guys. While I did promise to summarize some of the things, I said about creatine kinase, ALT, AST & Co on the last installment of the SuppVersity Science Round-Up on the Super Human Radio Network (I will do that in a future blogpost), today's SuppVersity article will focus on a single and in my experience often misinterpreted and / or overlooked symptom of overtraining that I personally have encountered numerous times in both male and female trainees: Self-induced hypothyrodism , low T3- or the euthyroid sick syndrome are just a couple of names that have been used in the science and laypress to describe this peculiar result of the way trainees deliberately ruin their metab...

Overtraining Research: New Insights into Athlete Triad. Plus: Depression, Palpitations, Urination, Injuries and Weight & Performance Plateaus, the Many Faces of Overtraining

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Chronic overtraining is one of the main contributers to the occurrence of often likewise chronic injuries, which persist even, when you finally realized that your own ambition is about to ruin your health. It's the last day of the SuppVersity Exercise Science Week with a topic of which you actually have read as an aside, or "read up on" note in the previous installments, already: Overtraining and the infamous athlete's triad (read the whole SuppVersity Special here ). Since I know that especially the male SuppVersity readers tend to believe they were bullet, or rather overtraining proof by nature, I decided to add a more general follow up to the results of a tightly controlled rodent experiment from the Graduate School of Sport Sciences at the Waseda University and the National Institute of Health and Nutrition University in Japan (Yanaka. 2012), which provide insights into the etiology of the (female) athlete triad phenomenon. A follow up with a potpourrie of...

The (Over-)Motivational Roots of Orthorexia, Overtraining & Co - Plus: Symptoms, Recovery Times & Scientific Questionnaire to Recognize Early Signs of Overtraining

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Image 1: Does not look motivated, right? This kitty just knows about the value of carefully planned laziness! Originally I had planned another article for today, but after Adelfo's somewhat unexpected "2nd place victory", I do not just want to go back to business as usual and thusly decided to take a brief look at what science has to say about winning, losing, motivation and getting back on track. And lo and behold loosing due to the obviously subjective decision of judges and the subsequent "discouragement", which, in psychological terms, could be subsumed under "non-self determined amotivation", is something that is significantly more prevalent in high performing athletes (Bulgarian title and medal holders in this particular study) than in the 2nd row of top athletes ( Chantal. 1996 ). When it comes to motivation "over-" can be worse than "under-" And while the Bulgarian athletes in the 1990s certainly had other "amot...
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