Overtraining

[JinNtonic]

If you leave the gym "with plenty of energy left". Then maybe you should take a look at your intensity level.

[kaptainkeezy04]

If you leave the gym "with plenty of energy left". Then maybe you should take a look at your intensity level.

Right on! I remember these one kids chattin' up a storm in the gym, talking about how they could never get sore, and I remember thinking that if they quit their yappin', and lifted some weights they might get sore. The truth is that different people respond to different regimens. Dorian Yates was in the gym for 45 minutes at the most, and went past failure on every single set. Then, you watch Jay Cutler workout, and he is in the gym for about 2 hours, and a high volume of sets is what works best for him. I know that if I am in the gym for longer than an hour, I am overdoing it, or not training with enough intensity, because my body responds best to high intensity workouts with low volume, but failure on almost every set. Keep in mind, though, that Dorian, and Jay, are/were on a lot of steroids, and this enables them to fail every set, or be in the gym for 2 hours.