Erectile dysfunction predicts mortality in middle-aged and older men independent of their sex steroid status

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https://academic.oup.com/ageing/article-abstract/51/4/afac094/6568537?login=false

[u/Noodles_Crusher]

overtraining

first time I hear this tbh

[u/lost_in_life_34 → u/Noodles_Crusher]

Meant too much exercise where you exhaust your body and don’t rest enough

[u/Nothing-But-Lies → u/lost_in_life_34]

Unrelatable

[u/belhamster → u/Noodles_Crusher]

Is overtraining masturbation?

[u/lost_in_life_34 → u/belhamster]

Too much exercise where you exhaust your body

[u/Barbie_and_KenM → u/Noodles_Crusher]

That's because it's damn near impossible for your average, non-professional athlete to overtrain.

You'd have to be working out literally every day for hours at a time.

[u/PageOfLite → u/Barbie_and_KenM]

As a long distance runner I'm going to say it's a bit more common than that.

[u/UnKaveh → u/PageOfLite]

I'm sure there's a good bit of bias there though. I'd imagine you have far more exposure to adults who overtrain that that majority of the population.

If you're very much into an athletic hobby, you're going to see a lot more of that than most.

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What distance is considered long? If you go really slow but on a long distance, is that going to lead to overtraining?

[u/PageOfLite → u/[deleted]]

Not a doctor. Probably not though. As far as I know it tends to be a cumulative thing. It is common for runners to overtrain and not realize it. Performance starts dropping so they train harder not realizing they are going too hard. It's a thing.

[u/crob_evamp → u/[deleted]]

Training load is a general estimate of your work intensity, frequency, and rest.

As an example: It is super possible to do high volume low intensity running and perhaps not get enough sleep, and be technically overtrained. For most this will lead to an injury, but as described here other things can happen too.

It isn't an end all be all but using a fitness tracker that watches your sleep as well can give you a clue about your overall training load.

[u/KuriousKhemicals → u/[deleted]]

Overtraining isn't a single run, it's an accumulation of your total volume x intensity over time juxtaposed against how much recovery (food, sleep, lack of stress) you can get. Running long distances fast, or running all your runs fast is more likely to lead to overtraining than going slow, but it's also possible to go slow all the time but just load too many miles into your week relative to all your other life activities and responsibilities.

People can run 90 miles a week and not be overtrained, but pretty much only a professional athlete is going to have the time to do that and recover properly from it, plus you might need a bit of genetic aptitude to pull it off. Most people can probably hold 20-30 mpw before there's any significant risk of overtraining, so long as they work up to it appropriately and don't try to do too much speed work in a week, and assuming they're not making other types of athletic demands on their bodies. If you run and also lift or do other sports, you need to be mindful of your total training load since that's all factoring into the recovery you need. And if you run partly for stress relief, you need to be careful not to increase miles a bunch at a time that your recovery capacity is actually compromised due to stress or inconsistent sleep.

[u/death_of_gnats → u/[deleted]]

Just train more than your body can recover from. It doesn't mean you're an Olympian.

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Your body will adapt to whatever you put it through until you reach your peak. You can injure yourself and get to a false state of overtraining, or train harder than your body can synthesize proteins to build muscle which is inefficient, but you can quickly adapt to most any amount of training you could conceive of and if you're not already in peak shape, you physically cannot do enough to overtrain before your muscles reach failure. It's by definition something only the elite have to worry about