jocko do you believe in overtraining do you believe in overtraining
or is that an excuse people use you have the ct fletcher's triathletes yourself
etc who get after it daily you also find other elite athletes who
believe in rest days who are by no means slackers
what's your take you know what can you over train yes you can
yeah you can definitely over train i will say this most people
don't over train because you got to work pretty hard to overtrain yeah
and if you over train you'll know it if you're paying attention to your
performance because your performance will start to go down
that that's what's happening and i've said this before i've seen it with
fighters that were preparing for a fight and
they'd be over training and you'd watch their performance
someone that's normally crushing let's say the fighters normally crushing
training partner a and all of a sudden training a partner a starts getting the
better of the fighter and you know you know it's it's obvious
the guy's over trained so take a couple days off
get some steak and get get back get get reset because you're over
trained so yeah you can overtrain for sure
now what i don't believe in well it's hard to overtrain
i mean these guys are working hard when they're over training
but a lot of people just they they do you can use overtraining as an excuse
what i do is i'm going to do something every day i
try and do something every day regardless like even if even if i feel
like i'm complete like last night i got kind of beat up on the map
i know i'm pretty i'm pretty over trained right now
but i'm also getting ready to go on a trip so i'm like okay well i just gonna
still i squatted today and i'm still gonna
train hard tonight and then i got a couple days where i'll be on the road
uh i might take one of those days and just like do more of a stretch
mobility type scenario work i'll still get the blood flowing because i got to
get the blood flowing god but you know maybe just like a hundred burpees and
then a bunch of stretching so i'll do a little recovery on the road
but yes you can over train it's hard to do it if your performance
is going down you're over training eat some steak take a break take a break
eat some steak take over eats bro 100 burpees kind of a lot
i think 100 burpees yeah you know it's like there's
less than 10 minutes put it this way i did oh then again all the time they did
100 burpees with after workout so dennis feels a little different
yeah you just go do 100 burpees
yeah well the okay so over training though is like there's two or maybe even
more different kinds of quote unquote over
training so there's like there's like a for real like i don't
know for i'm gonna misuse it a clinical
version of over training which is like official like your blood
you can recognize it in your blood and like certain things and certain whatever
and there's all these symptoms they're not a spot it's a thing it's an
actual thing like you don't sleep and it's like your body essentially goes
into this like negative kind of feedback or positive feedback loop where it's
like but just you're over training and it takes like a
while to get out of it like a while you got to go through
this process and then there's also like a condition
like rhabdo something yeah that's a serious
situation yeah that's essentially over training yes that's
acute over training quickly yeah yeah usually to get hit with the
rabbit yeah and then there's like this kind of
gray area and you can get rhabdo i guess you can get i think
i think you get rhabdo in like certain muscle groups
but anyways rhabdo yeah that'll take you out i remember cake nuts was
we're rolling cake nuts he's the kind guy who's like just kind of down for
anything not just kind of like fire plug type guy because he's super
mellow but he's just down for anything like the kind where if you're going to
go do something kind of weird he'll or whatever he'll always sort of
just be there you know he always kind of says yes so
anyway we're training and he you know when someone asks you to
roll and you're done you're like oh no done maybe next time you know not cake
nuts no he was like he was like okay he does and
you could tell he was like tired he's like okay and then we're all done
already and then you know how certain guys come in later whatever maybe one
two guys and another guy asked him to run we're
like dang cake that's still rolling and i think he even rolled before us
too and he was just rolling around he might have did some other pt or whatever
and he's like man he's like man i'm i'm pretty tired right now and then
another guy asked him well let's roll and he's like okay
and we're just laughing like it was kind of a white belt yeah which means all
these which means all these roles are not like
yeah relaxed scenarios they're actual level nine death battles yeah he's going
for it yeah he's a purple by the way oh that's cool yeah um but
yeah at the time i think he was white belt and
yeah so he goes and he's like man i'm tired i messed up and i was like yeah
man i dig it and you rolled a lot and sure and come to find out he had rap
though yeah but anyway go and then there's a gray area over
training where you're training a lot maybe your
testosterone will be down from training a lot
and me you know your nutrition may or may not be all that kind of thing so
your performance does go down you feel a little bit more tired going
into training you know if you're lifting or whatever you can't lift this heavy
and all this stuff that's like a great or you're not over trained though
you just how you say just eat a steak and a day two days later
boom you're kind of back in the game you know kind of thing but i don't think
that's a clinical technically over trained maybe you're
not recovering day to day as much or something like this but
nonetheless but all true things all real things hey your body's this machine man
if you you know with all these different systems that the systems ain't work all
ain't working right you may not get you know the performance that you uh
that you want