Overtraining is a myth! Proven by Military training.

[Lovetogetjacked]

In basic training you beat to death the same muscle groups day in and day out. For 12-15 weeks! When the men and women are done with this, they are in the best shape of their life. Physically and mentally.

Their muscles do not stop growing during basic training. They are always making progress. They get just enough sleep per night and they eat 3 meals per day. They just eat, do not count macros, and fucking bust their asses day in and day out during this time.

SO how can anyone on here, or in life, say that overtraining is real? Imagine the look on a Navy Seal if you tried to tell him he was overtraining.

 

[Montego]

I believe that if you eat enough and sleep enough, it is very hard to "overtrain".

Most don't reach that level muscle stress due to lack of actually training hard enough to reach it.

In this case, 12-15 weeks is not a long enough period of time to reach a state of "overtraining" especially given that you are observing individuals who are possibly receiving a brand new stimulus they are not used to.

Most of these guys /girls would be very new to intense training methods even though they are not necessarily under a weighted load and instead a purely physical stress. So the body would adapt over a long period of time instead of shutting down.

If you do not get enough food or rest, you will stop making progress no matter how much harder you train.

 

[CG]

Not eating and sleeping enough are more the reason for that common "overtraining" in my opinion. Only time I ever felt like that was on super low calorie 7day per week training with about 4 hours of sleep per night. Mistakes were made.