What can over training do to the the body? It can cause stress. What happens when your body stresses? There are a variety of things that can and do happen.
First, you are fatigued throughout the day and you are very sluggish. How are you going to have the intense training days we need to get better if you are feeling tired and sluggish. In addition to this issue, when you lay down to sleep, you have insomnia. Over training can cause insomnia. Remember our body only heals when we are sleeping.
Over training leads to loss of appetite, sluggishness, being tired all day, and insomnia throughout the night. Over training is not conducive for being the best fighter you can be.
Over training also causes stress and when we stress we release a hormone called cortisol. Cortisol is very important to the body, but when you get too much of it, then it is counter-productive to building muscle tissue, stamina, and everything we are trying to do.
I think what we really focus on when we are building Manny Pacquiao is that we are not releasing any unnecessary cortisol in the body.
Cortisol counteracts insulin. Insulin is a hormone that is central to regulating carbohydrates and fat metabolism in the body. Insulin cause cells in the liver, muscle, and fat tissue to take up glucose. When insulin is absent, glucose is not taken up by body cells and the body begins to use fat as an energy source.
The reason I am teaching you guys this is simply because ?Understanding leads to Solutions? That is the goal of me writing my articles so you guys can start finding solutions to what you guys are doing. This way when your body hits a plateau you will know how to correct it.
Measuring cortisol levels is a way to find out what is happening in the body. The 24-hour urinary excretion of unmetabolized cortisol is one of the best ways to accurately gauge cortisol levels. This helps take into account bound and free cortisol.
Cortisol can help put you in a state of your body eating off itself to survive. The major catabolic effects of cortisol involve its facilitating the conversion of protein in muscles and connective tissue into glucose and glycogen. Gluconeogenesis (the sequence of metabolic reactions by which glucose/sugar is synthesized,) involves both the increased degradation of protein already formed and the decreased synthesis of new protein. Cortisol can also decrease the utilization of glucose by cells by directly inhibiting glucose transport into the cells. A cortisol excess can also lead to a decrease in insulin sensitivity. Cortisol also reduces the utilization of amino acids for protein formation in muscle cells. A cortisol excess can lead to a progressive loss of protein, muscle weakness and atrophy. Atrophy is the wasting away of muscle tissue.
So, that is a lot of words right there. Here is the long and short of it. If you over train you are doing more harm then good, because scientifically you can not stop your body from producing substances that will hurt you.
Intense training routines, followed by proper diet and rest, is the only way to build yourself into a champion!
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