Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the Muscle Intelligence Podcast. I thought I would take a deep dive into overtraining today. We got a lot of questions coming in around overtraining, how I think about overtraining. Is it really a thing? Is it something you may be experiencing not ultimately how to think about it and stop just throwing

around sound bites that you think sound useful?

There's so many people on the internet right now that say, hey, you know what?

You're overtraining or are you training too much?

And they talk about junk volume and too much frequency and progressive overload is king.

And they throw on all these sound bites

that ultimately mean absolutely nothing to them. They have no idea what they're talking about.

They're just repeating what other people are saying. So let's dive a little bit deeper today into

the concept of overtraining, ultimately also the idea of overreaching what the difference is

and how you can utilize the knowledge of this information to ultimately progress

faster than you maybe have before. And I'll tell you, there's a lot of thought that goes into

the concept of overtraining. Ultimately, a simple way to think about it that I'll offer you guys

today is a systems approach. What is a systems approach? A systems approach inside the bodies

if we go system by system. So we look at the nervous system. Maybe we'll look at the endocrine

system. Maybe we look at the muscular system, the cardiovascular system, or at the digestive system.

All these different systems could potentially be stressed or taxed. And yet people are just throwing

the word over training out, assuming you're

doing too much volume means you're not actually training or adapting, which just makes absolutely

no sense. So let's talk about a framing in how we're going to ultimately understand how to make a

decision, right? So instead of mindlessly following someone's protocol, let's say, if you're doing

more than two sets for this body part, you're doing too much, that's complete say, if you're doing more than two sets for this

body part, you're doing too much. That's complete nonsense. If you're doing more than five sets

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