Had enough of cortisol!

Hawar

PartyBoy

Hawar


The symptoms are there............lack of sleep, lack of libido, lossing muscle, gaining fat....i've had all of these in the past weeks and months!

Lack of sleep - probably too much of life's stresses. This will probably increase cortisol. You are assuming the cortisol is affecting your sleep etc etc. It's almost certainly the other way round! Lack of sleep is affecting cortisol levels. Do you see the difference? You are getting the horse and cart mixed up. More importantly, lack of sleep will decreases testosterone and HGH. This will undoubtedly be detrimental to muscular gain and fat loss.

So, we are back to square 1. Address your sleep problems by addressing the root cause of your lack of sleep; whatever they might be - money issues, relationship problems, work or financial problems etc etc etc

 
must be overtraining then. really don't want to take a break though. :( had a break a month ago anyway.
Decided to go a bit easier on the lifting though, which isn't ideal considering that i will start a cut tomorrow, and you need to maintain the heavy workout you've done in the past to hang on to as much muscle as possible.
 
thanks anyway mate, very helpful.

How many days a week are you training? Might be an idea to cut down on the volume and see if that helps.

I had this problem while I was training during my teen years and it was due to a combination of overtraining, intolerance to caffeine and higher than normal levels of stress.

I was getting 3-4 hours sleep a night - it was hellish!

T-Bone123

Hawar

PartyBoy

Hawar


The symptoms are there............lack of sleep, lack of libido, lossing muscle, gaining fat....i've had all of these in the past weeks and months!

Lack of sleep - probably too much of life's stresses. This will probably increase cortisol. You are assuming the cortisol is affecting your sleep etc etc. It's almost certainly the other way round! Lack of sleep is affecting cortisol levels. Do you see the difference? You are getting the horse and cart mixed up. More importantly, lack of sleep will decreases testosterone and HGH. This will undoubtedly be detrimental to muscular gain and fat loss.

So, we are back to square 1. Address your sleep problems by addressing the root cause of your lack of sleep; whatever they might be - money issues, relationship problems, work or financial problems etc etc etc

must be overtraining then. really don't want to take a break though. :( had a break a month ago anyway.
Decided to go a bit easier on the lifting though, which isn't ideal considering that i will start a cut tomorrow, and you need to maintain the heavy workout you've done in the past to hang on to as much muscle as possible.

thanks anyway mate, very helpful.

How many days a week are you training? Might be an idea to cut down on the volume and see if that helps.

I had this problem while I was training during my teen years and it was due to a combination of overtraining, intolerance to caffeine and higher than normal levels of stress.

I was getting 3-4 hours sleep a night - it was hellish!

how did you get rid of it?
 
I train 4 days a week for about an hour, sometimes 1 hour and 15 minutes. but im going to try and cut it to 45 mins from now.