Group: General Fitness & Exercise

General Fitness & Exercise
Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 382, Messages: 54581

Various general exercise related discussions. Find out what it takes to reach your fitness goals through daily effective exercise. With so many options we try to find out what works best.

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cortisal

bigdowg666
bigdowg666
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Joined: 2007/04/22
United States
2007/05/18, 09:42 PM
is it true that if your workout exceeds 45 mins then cortisal kicks in and you have a better chance of overtraining?
bb1fit
bb1fit
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United States
2007/05/18, 10:36 PM
Well, much depends on the intensity of it. If you are talking for most of it, then of course not. However if you are doing a heavy hard balls to the wall type workout, then much over 45 min. - 1 hr. will at the very least start to tax the Central nervous system and not muscle anymore, and thus cortisol will rear it ugly head.

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wrestler125
wrestler125
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2007/05/19, 02:30 AM
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Quoting from bb1fit:
if you are doing a heavy hard balls to the wall type workout, then YOU SHOULDN'T NEED TO WORK OUT OVER 1 HOUR.
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