Dr. Andy Galpin

Before that, you get into what's called non-functional overreaching.

So you're overreaching.

You're pushing your body past where it should do.

And you did it so much that when you actually recovered, you didn't get any positive adaptations.

It was not functional.

It didn't produce a benefit.

So if you were to go this in the spectrum, right now, if you were not to go train, we got done, we would go lift.

Our acute performance would be worse because we're tired.

Okay, great.

But then we rest and we come back tomorrow.

Next day, our performance is better.

If we keep doing that though, we keep training and we don't give ourselves enough time to recover.

we'll eventually go down in performance, down in performance.

And then if we take some time to recover, we should have this super compensation.

That would be a situation in which we overreached, but it was functional because it produced a benefit, produced performance enhancement, more mitochondria, more muscle, you know, fill in the blank for whatever you want.

So we have functional overreaching.

That's what we're after.

It was functional.

We have non-functional.

You kept going.