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It's not really possible to understand human health without understanding Selye's General Adaption Syndrome and hormesis. In short, stressors that don't overcom
by User23 5y ago
It's not really possible to understand human health without understanding Selye's General Adaption Syndrome and hormesis. In short, stressors that don't overcome an organism's ability to more or less maintain homeostasis cause adaptations that make that organism better suited to withstand similar stresses. Athletic training is a classic example of a stress that, if all goes well, results in improved fitness. But there is something called overtraining, which results when the athlete applies more of a training stress than his or her body can handle, and in that case one sees a rapid and even catastrophic[1] decrease in fitness.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhabdomyolysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhabdomyolysis
- Swizec 5y agoTo be fair most of us regular humans are way way too concerned about overtraining. It’s really hard to get there. If you have a typical office job, you almost certainly don’t even have enough time in the day to overtrain.
- jackbravo 5y agoYes you could, because since you don't train regularly, going out for a 5k run could be very stressful. I've been there, when young 5k was, you could say easy, I could do it any day without warmup or specific training. But now, I can't run 5k without injuring myself. I need to prepare for several weeks before running 5k.
- Swizec 5y agoWell sounds like you should train regularly then :) But overtraining isn’t just getting over exerted and having to rest for a few days or even weeks. It’s a very gnarly condition that’s ridiculously hard to get to. Most of us would mentally tap out long before. It’s a lot like the difference between needing a break and being burned out. Getting tired and needing a break is normal, being burnt out is a serious condition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overtraining https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overtraining
- curmudgeon22 5y agoI would guess it also depends on concentration. If you're at the gym exercising a specific muscle group, you could over-exert that muscle easier than generic overtraining while playing a sport.
- ragona 5y agoThis makes sense, but I believe it’s incorrect. Overtraining is a fairly serious condition that can take months to recover from, not generic over-exertion of a specific muscle group that requires days of rest.
- watwut 5y agoIt happened to me with job and kids. It is very easy to over train or get injury. It does not require hours and hours, just intensity. And if you had not done sport for a long time and suddenly get back to it, trying to "continue" where you left, that is when injuries happen.
- agumonkey 5y agoI'm having similar issues but at the mental level. By studying too many topics at once i'm overloading my brain to the point of pain (unwillingly). Things have capacity.