Dr. Andy Galpin

It might stay the same, but it might come down a little bit.

And if it does come down a little bit, I'm not stopping training.

I'm not backing off unless we're seeing signs of like extreme fatigue or pain or whatever.

That little bit of like short-term, what looks like a negative thing is not.

It's a normal physiological response.

If we were to keep going though, we didn't bring you out of that.

And then we got into something like non-functional overreaching.

Then the testosterone is still going to be down or potentially lower.

But then you'll start seeing the things of, now my performance has been down.

It's been down for three weeks.

It's been down for five weeks.

It's not coming back up.

Okay.

Sleep issues, hunger issues, motivation issues.

You continue to go and you get into true overtraining.

Now, almost surely, anabolic hormones are down.

The few studies directly on actual overtraining suggested that something like a testosterone recovery might take a while.

It can really struggle to come back.

Typically, when somebody's a little bit overreached, even if their testosterone is down, a couple of days off, it flies right back up.

It's not really a compromised neurological system there.