Quote Originally Posted by TobyS View Post
I'm on amino acids during my workout, protein shake 3 times a day, my diet is solid (not perfect) so im a bit confused as to how overworking my chest can cause me to lose gains? chest and legs are the only things i train twice a week and i understand there is time for recovery but I havent been sore from working chest for as long as i can remember. Maybe you could change your tone because I couldnt help but feel patronized, I'm 21 and ive been training for 2 years, dont treat me like i know nothing
Okay, but this doesn't change the fact that at the molecular level, your body's rate of biosynthesis does not change just because you start dumping more food and amino acids into it. Any extra nutrients that your body can't use will simply be excreted and/or stored as fat.

My apologies for my tone earlier, but you should look into the issue of overtraining. I don't have the time to explain it all right now, but in a nutshell, training a given muscle twice per week or more is basically causing you to destroy your muscle before it has a chance to fully recover.

Remember, your muscles need to first repair the damage you've done to it in the gym. After that is fully complete, your body then needs to grow the new muscle on top of it (and this is what you WANT, right?). The more sets you do, the more microtears in muscle fibers you create that must be then repaired. The more frequently you train, the same thing happens. If you keep smashing your muscles to bits before they have had a chance to repair the base amount of fibers that are damaged from just what you've done in the gym, how do you expect to ever grow any new muscle on top of that?

Stimulate, don't annihilate.