- What's up Elite THENX Athletes?
It's Chris Heria, welcome to another video
of official THENX.
Today we're gonna be answering the question,
can you train every day?
Let's discover the truth about overtraining.
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All right, so let's get started.
Today, we're going to be answering the question,
can you train every day?
We're gonna discover the truth about overtraining.
The answer to that question, can you train everyday?
The answer is, you can train every day.
You can train hard, but you cannot do both consistently
for an extended period of time?
Eventually, if you're training hard, as hard as you can,
every single day, and you're doing that without any rest
at all, your body is eventually gonna fatigue.
It's eventually gonna slow down,
and you're eventually gonna hit that wall.
You're not gonna progress at all.
That is where overtraining comes into play.
You see, your body needs proper rest
to be able to get stronger and to build muscle.
When you're resting is when you're building and repairing
those muscle fibers so you can go back in the next day
and go even harder, and take it to the next level.
Resting is super important.
It is just as important as training hard.
If your body is fatigued,
that's when you're going to start hitting those walls.
You're not going to make any progress,
and there we have the overtraining coming into play,
so it's really important to program your training.
That doesn't mean that you can't train every single day.
That doesn't also mean that you can't train really hard.
You can do them both, you just shouldn't be doing them
both consistently, because that is not gonna work out.
You can train every single day, Monday through Monday,
if you're starting off the first week, let's say intense,
and you're finishing off by the end of the week,
you're doing light workouts, or just some light movements,
or just training technique or doing some cardio,
something like that.
In fact, I do that every single day.
I, in a sense, train every single day,
because at some point during the day,
of my off day, I'm either doing some type of cardio,
or doing some type of technique,
whether it be just practicing my hand stands,
my one arm hand stands, or something like that.
That is still training, so yes you can train
every single day, it's just not gonna be
at the same intensity as when you first started that week.
Now you can also train with extreme intensity
throughout the week, and then take the weekend off
to repair your body and get it ready for the next week.
It all depends on your goals, and your lifestyle really.
The most important thing
is really to just listen to your body.
If you feel like you really need that rest,
you feel your body is aching,
and you actually have been going hard for a consistent
amount of time, take the rest.
Don't worry about, oh Chris said that he trains
every single day.
Even on his off days, he's doing even a little something.
Yeah, that's true, but if I just don't feel like doing it
on my off days, I won't.
It's not like it's a consistent thing
where I'm training every single day.
I still take two day breaks, and day breaks
all in between my workout regimen.
The most important thing for me
is that when it is time to train,
you go hard, and you are constantly challenging yourself.
As long as you're having the proper rest
and the right nutrition, overtraining is just bull shit.
Now, I'm gonna show you
what other people will consider overtraining.
We're going to do a challenging workout,
a whole body workout.
The first exercise is going to be handstand pushups.
We're gonna max those handstand pushups.
We're then gonna go into weighted muscle ups,
shape our dips, pull ups, all consecutively,
and we're gonna do a drop set,
five, 10, 10, the first set,
seven, seven, seven the next set.
We're then gonna move into dead lifts.
We're gonna lift heavy,
so we're gonna do three and five reps.
From there we're gonna move onto toes to bar.
We're gonna do hanging with one arm,
three on each arm, and then we're gonna move into 10
with both arms.
From there we're gonna move onto straddle planche pushups.
We're gonna go for eight,
and then we're gonna do a dropset of dips.
We're gonna put on plates,
and we're gonna do five,
take some plates off, six, take plates off,
seven, take the last plate off,
and then max out with body weight.
If you guys are ready, let's go for it.
The first exercise is gonna be handstand pushups.
You guys are ready, let's get started.
We're gonna max these out.
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All right, that's a nice little warmup.
Moving on.
We have muscle ups, straight bar dips, pull ups.
This is an old school move.
It's one of my favorites.
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This is gonna be interesting.
I'm already dripping in sweat.
All right, so we're gonna go for muscle ups,
straight bar dips, pull ups, 5, 10.
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Oh, that was crazy.
Oh my God.
All right, it's time to drop set that.
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Now is when that rest comes in handy (laughs).
All right, so now we're gonna go for seven, seven, seven.
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Gotta go back up.
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(laughs) That one's crazy.
Oh my gosh.
Let me get some chalk for a second,
'cause I'm just drenched in sweat.
It's summertime here, in Miami,
and there's no AC in here.
The fans aren't on.
It is like a hundred degrees in here.
That's why I'm sweating like crazy.
All right, so now we got dead lifts.
We're gonna go from three to five reps.
Since we're lifting heavy.
All right, here we go.
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Whew!
Damn, that is heavy after those muscles.
All right, next, toes to the bar.
Let's do it.
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All righty, so we're gonna go through with one arm.
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Whew!
That one was harder than the other side.
Let's go for 10.
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Now, we're almost done.
Straddle planche pushups.
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I'm thinking, what did I sign myself up for?
This is pretty tough.
All right, here we go.
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Oh my God, what the hell.
That was practically impossible at this point.
Whew!
All right, well I did as many as I could from there.
Let's move onto the next exercise.
We're gonna do a drop set
of these weighted dips, right here.
I'll take off one plate at a time.
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Oh, all right.
(chuckles) These are comfortable.
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All right, here we go.
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There we go, that's five.
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Aah, six.
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Here we go, all right.
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Here we go, last one.
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All right.
Here we go.
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Aah, whew!
All right, damn.
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I'm leaving a trail of sweat across the whole gym.
This is definitely a killer workout right here.
If you enjoyed the workout for today,
if you enjoyed the lesson, can you train every day?
Yes, can you train hard like this every day?
It is good to put your body as intense
as I put myself through this workout,
put your body through intense workouts,
that challenge you every week,
maybe not every single day in a row,
but you need to be pushing yourself
to the limit every week.
I actually try to go hard, hard like this,
almost five days out of the week.
At least Monday through Friday,
I try to go as hard as I can, no excuses.
If your nutrition is on point,
you're getting the right amount of sleep,
you're gonna see crazy gains, crazy strength,
and crazy progress.
This is literally, I'm giving you guys the inside scoop
of what I do and what I did to get to where I'm at today.
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during this whole routine,
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It's gonna help you lift more,
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Thank you guys so much for watching.
Love you.
Peace out.
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