Training 7 days/week—zero progress, fatigued & bad digestion. Need advice!

Hard_nerdy

Hard_nerdy

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7-year lifter here. Started working from home this year and turned my routine into 7 days/week. Lately, I’ve hit a wall: zero physical progress, constant fatigue, and worse digestion.How many days a week do you train? Do you force rest days? Also, skipping a day makes me anxious and sleep poorly. Anyone dealt with this "rest-day withdrawal" and how did you overcome it?
 
Hard_nerdy said:
7-year lifter here. Started working from home this year and turned my routine into 7 days/week. Lately, I’ve hit a wall: zero physical progress, constant fatigue, and worse digestion.How many days a week do you train? Do you force rest days? Also, skipping a day makes me anxious and sleep poorly. Anyone dealt with this "rest-day withdrawal" and how did you overcome it?
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I used to train 7 days a week and was in the same boat as you. I went on cycle and kept my 7 days a week and plateaued even on gear.. Turned it into 4 days a week and every 6th week I take the entire week off.

Growth comes from rest. You aren't resting, you won't grow.

Edit: to emphasis what I was getting at. When I rested more and worked out less I grew more. And quite a noticeable difference.
 
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Following this thread closely

Usually do 4-5 days a week but lately I’ve been doing 6-7 days a week since hopping on TRT

I still feel like an animal and enjoying it, but it is exhausting.
 
Jesus lol....

I lift 3 days a week... I can't even do legs once a week without crashing..

I also limit myself to 2-3 exercises per body part and 1 "working set" per exercise for the most part. I do train to failure though.

I never made progress unless I took a day off after each day I lifted, except maybe when I was early 20's and eating around 5k cals a day


Whats your age? Diet? What's your workouts look like?
 
Hard_nerdy said:
7-year lifter here. Started working from home this year and turned my routine into 7 days/week. Lately, I’ve hit a wall: zero physical progress, constant fatigue, and worse digestion.How many days a week do you train? Do you force rest days? Also, skipping a day makes me anxious and sleep poorly. Anyone dealt with this "rest-day withdrawal" and how did you overcome it?
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Are you trolling ?
 
Hard_nerdy said:
7-year lifter here. Started working from home this year and turned my routine into 7 days/week. Lately, I’ve hit a wall: zero physical progress, constant fatigue, and worse digestion.How many days a week do you train? Do you force rest days? Also, skipping a day makes me anxious and sleep poorly. Anyone dealt with this "rest-day withdrawal" and how did you overcome it?
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If you are being serious, I never understood this. There are pro bodybuilders who mostly train 4-5 days a week, but somehow everyone around me HAS to go lift everyday. I get it, that it's a mental thing for a lot of them, but maybe I'm being over the top here, but I think it's so stupid to say I have to do this everyday or else I don't feel good, that is as good as any other addiction. Cardio daily yes, mobility work daily also yes...but to just go lift daily with no progress and actually maybe the reverse makes no sense to me. I know people around me who will skip things with significant others, family just because they had to lift on a Saturday!

Ok, I went on a rant. To the OP, if this isn't a troll, you know what to do, don't be stupid and make the adjustments needed to make progress. If you were someone who was making a living at this, and your next placing at a show mattered for your career, would you just continue to do what you are doing or make a change.
 
powerrack said:
If you are being serious, I never understood this. There are pro bodybuilders who mostly train 4-5 days a week, but somehow everyone around me HAS to go lift everyday. I get it, that it's a mental thing for a lot of them, but maybe I'm being over the top here, but I think it's so stupid to say I have to do this everyday or else I don't feel good, that is as good as any other addiction. Cardio daily yes, mobility work daily also yes...but to just go lift daily with no progress and actually maybe the reverse makes no sense to me. I know people around me who will skip things with significant others, family just because they had to lift on a Saturday!

Ok, I went on a rant. To the OP, if this isn't a troll, you know what to do, don't be stupid and make the adjustments needed to make progress. If you were someone who was making a living at this, and your next placing at a show mattered for your career, would you just continue to do what you are doing or make a change.
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This makes sense - but on the flip side,
Sometimes a good pump in the gym and going daily becomes someone’s sanctuary.

I feel great in gym days - and have a harder time going after stopping for 1-2 days.
 
JayJay24 said:
This makes sense - but on the flip side,
Sometimes a good pump in the gym and going daily becomes someone’s sanctuary.

I feel great in gym days - and have a harder time going after stopping for 1-2 days.
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I understand, this makes sense as well, but OP is complaining about progress. If he's not making the progress he's after and just mindlessly training daily, time to re-evaluate.
 
7 days a week only works if it works. I’m doing that currently and having amazing results. Gh, TRT and Reta are helping make it possible but it could stop being effective at some point. If that happens I will add in rest days.
 
Fair if results and progress are the goal and it’s not happening at 7days/week. Time for rest.
powerrack said:
I understand, this makes sense as well, but OP is complaining about progress. If he's not making the progress he's after and just mindlessly training daily, time to re-evaluate
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animal-inside said:
Jesus lol....

I lift 3 days a week... I can't even do legs once a week without crashing..

I also limit myself to 2-3 exercises per body part and 1 "working set" per exercise for the most part. I do train to failure though.

I never made progress unless I took a day off after each day I lifted, except maybe when I was early 20's and eating around 5k cals a day


Whats your age? Diet? What's your workouts look like?
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This is pretty much how I lift as well.

I don’t think it should be a marathon as recovery is as important as moving the weight.
 
A billion years ago, when I normally only got 3 months a year to train (work and life was too busy the rest of the year, so Jan, feb, march), I would train 7 days a weeks balls out.

I didn’t hit a plateau or burn out because I beleive it was only 3 months, then I pretty much took the rest of the year off.

You need a break, then reduce your training. You can always do cardio or abs.
 
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