What I unfortunately see, you know, across gyms across America, when I go to them, kind

of the people that are more of the fitness fanatic mindset is what we call over-training.

An over-training and even maybe something called reds of relative energy deficiency in

sport is where we train a lot too often for a long period of time, potentially with under-fueling

and that would be the reds of it. We're in a calorie deficit for a long period of time.

And so that is when you're doing, you know, months on end of training or you're really under-fueling

for your performance and then you start to see not just the short-term dips in performance,

but these chronic or longer-term dips in performance that you rest for a few days or a week,

but you don't get better. You're still in the hole, you're, you know, you might get, actually,

there's an immediate elevation of heart rate and then there's actually a suppression of heart rate,

our resting heart rate, overnight heart rate or something like that, but you have this suppression

of heart rate, autism, hormonal related changes and other things that go on. But you're basically the

main indicator is you rest for a little bit of a period of time, but you don't feel better.

And I think one of the challenges is a lot of people, particularly within the fitness

fanatic world, have been in such an over-trained state for so long that they don't really know what

feeling fresh feels like. You know, you've been in this constant state of, I go to the GM

five or times a week, I, you know, go for a run every morning, I, you know, I have to skip breakfast

or dinner because I'm getting my kids ready for school. I, you know, I really want to do that

high intensity interval cardio session after work because I love the socially element and the vibe

that I get around it, but you've been doing that for months, weeks, months, years and, you know,

you rest and break your tension for a week, you feel slightly better, but you're not,

not anywhere near where you potentially could be.

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