Can muscles shrink while on AAS by over-training?

[casualbb]

nutrition is the chief factor controlling muscle loss/gain. Overtraining really is secondary. In fact, if you were to find a program and deliberately overtrain while juicing and eating a lot -- you'd make great gains. Especially because you'd have to train with more volume or frequency to overtrain, and both of those build muscle faster.

Of course if you want to gain more it's easier just to up the dose than try and manipulate training variables

 

[tommboy]

wow you guys are seriously makeing me so scared I am overtraining and im only hitting the gym 5-6 days a week with a 4 day split. I am on 500mg of test too and get 8 -10 hours everynight. Now today I wake up and I have felt all tired most of the day, (like a walking zombie) You guys seriously got that into my head and now all day I am scared that I am overtraining!!!

 

[needsize]

wow you guys are seriously makeing me so scared I am overtraining and im only hitting the gym 5-6 days a week with a 4 day split. I am on 500mg of test too and get 8 -10 hours everynight. Now today I wake up and I have felt all tired most of the day, (like a walking zombie) You guys seriously got that into my head and now all day I am scared that I am overtraining!!!

damn, I'm running over 3 grams of gear, and overtrain quickly if I train 6 days a week

 

[bicepts101]

damn, I'm running over 3 grams of gear, and overtrain quickly if I train 6 days a week

there has been days ive felt over trained on bis and tris day

 

[Singleton]

For me, I can train 12-13 times a week (7 of those are AM Yoga/pilates), but I have to sleep about 8.5 - 9 hours and sometimes take a nap during the day. Of couse, my workouts are usually vy low volume. But that's me.

So I would have to say that sleep is the most important thing for me. If I get < 8 hours for over 4 days, I'll start to feel heavy and weak and tired and I'll be short of breaths and can't recoup btn. sets and become overtrained. Steroids do not seem to alleviate the need for me to sleep a lot.

 

[solidspine]

I think it may depend on each individual,

if I am on a serious cycle,

I don't think it is possible to over train.

 

[tommboy]

need size are you doing 2 a day's? How many days a week are you lifting, and for how long?

 

[bicepts101]

steroids do nothing for me other than make me more tired.....as stated before over trainging is as easy to accumulate in the gym. it all starts with diet and rest plain and simple