[quote]Dr. Pangloss wrote:
You’ve got experience and seem in touch with your body, why don’t you power through it and report back in a month. You’ll give the community another data point and learn a bit more about what you’re capable of.[/quote]
Powered through, for what, a week? Pants became tighter around the waist and I REGRESSED on several lifts.
In other words, I got fatter and weaker by eating tons of food and ignoring overreaching symptoms. Time for a nice supercompensation cruise :)[/quote]
Please post details of perfect “nutrition/macros” alluded to in your OP.
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[quote]roybot wrote:
Please post details of perfect “nutrition/macros” alluded to in your OP…
Joking aside, if you’re intent on running yourself into the ground, there is an upper limit to using diet as a means to stave off over-training.
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Lol yeah I don’t keep track of macro ratios or totals, just figure that as long as I’m gaining weight, eating enough protein, and eating wholesome foods, I should be good.
Also, yes I agree that there is an upper limit.
I found an interesting article about how a sodium deficiency will bring about symptoms identical to overreaching/overtraining. From what I understand, they drove themselves into a state of overreaching and, instead of backing off of training, they added more sodium to their diet. (I focused more on food than electrolytes…) I’ve only read the abstract, but the part I don’t like is that they trained aggressively AND ate a low-sodium diet to induce the symptoms.
Two variables instead of one. Therefore, it doesn’t prove that high sodium intake alone can stave off overtraining symptoms induced by aggressive training alone… It could also mean that the overtraining symptoms brought on by a low sodium diet can be cured by eating a high sodium diet. lol.
Copy and paste to google if you’re interested:
Total body Na(+)-depletion without hyponatraemia can trigger overtraining-like symptoms with sleeping disorders and increasing blood pressure: explorative case and literature study.