Dr. Andy Galpin

You either trained too much.

You under-recovered or both.

And then you had to take weeks off, typically days off or weeks off, and you got back to baseline.

And then overreaching is past that.

That's what we're really getting at.

We want to spend as much time in functional overreaching as we can.

And when we back off, we have, again, ideally a super compensation.

We got the adaptation we're looking for.

If you really get into over-training...

It's hard to define because there's no marker of it.

We actually have this really cool, Phillip Larson and his lab in Carolinas Institute has published a bunch of really cool papers.

There's a handful of very specific mitochondria markers that they've identified.

They can actually see overtraining happening before any other signal of them.

There's like six or eight different metabolites they've got that they've published.

It's really interesting stuff.

I actually think they're onto something pretty smart there.

But because of that, this is one of the exercise science problems.

What are the signs of true overtraining?

I don't know.

You're tired.