Overtraining or just being a pussy?!

Brain fog, irritability, lack of motivation to do anything else in life. Hunger fluctuations, stalled fat loss, lack of focus, easy tasks seem ridiculously harder, and the list goes on and on.

It's actually harder for me to pull back than to keep going harder and I need to focus more on a routine change rather than just "take the day off altogether"

I like the gym, I like being in the gym and I like suffering through grueling sets, so to just "take more time off" seems like torture to me. So what I've learned to do is to have days where I can still hit the gym, but the day is more focused on cardio or some type of metabolic conditioning workouts. Good luck, I struggle with this issue myself
 
I'm going to double down on what a lot have said: true overtraining is very hard to reach if you get even 6 hours of sleep and consume over 3,000 calories AND using gear.

I've actually hit overtaking one time in my life when doing functional training; lots of Hindu squats daily. I got rhabdo and starting pissing brown.
You aren't going to hit they limit with any typical bodybuilder bro split. I've done 6 days a week for months and still didn't hit it. Try to remember hard physical labor for 8+ hours a day is still a real thing in some countries.
 
I'm going to double down on what a lot have said: true overtraining is very hard to reach if you get even 6 hours of sleep and consume over 3,000 calories AND using gear.

I've actually hit overtaking one time in my life when doing functional training; lots of Hindu squats daily. I got rhabdo and starting pissing brown.
You aren't going to hit they limit with any typical bodybuilder bro split. I've done 6 days a week for months and still didn't hit it. Try to remember hard physical labor for 8+ hours a day is still a real thing in some countries.
Its not terribly hard, but overtraining and overreaching are two different things.

overtraining takes months to recover from, over reaching can be alliviated with a week off.
 
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