Dr. Andy Galpin

We've overloaded the system a little bit.

Things might get worse, right?

Your physical performance might get worse.

Fatigue is setting in.

This is a stressor.

This is actually good.

This is why you wouldn't want to come in and give yourself an anti-inflammatory.

You wouldn't want to come in and give yourself, like you're actually trying to induce adaptation here.

And so when you see markers that look like they're bad, this is just a signal that says you're overloaded right now.

Resting heart rate might go up.

HRV goes down.

That's okay.

This is the off-season for our athletes.

We expect these things to happen at the beginning of the off-season when we just start training again.

Normal.

If we continue past that... Sorry, what's up?

If you were to stop...

and you were to start recovering more, then you'll see testosterone come right back up.

Potentially, well, most likely not go back any higher, but it'll come right back up and performance will go higher.

So like an acute, and I'm defining acute as like a couple of days or a couple of weeks of something like testosterone going down early in a training phase, it's very normal.