[Hannibal]

Long distance running is a terrible idea in general. I'm not talking about guys who like to run two or three miles at a crack, I'm talking about marathon training.

I'll just cite this article here so I don't have a massive wall o' text.

http://chaosandpain.blogspot.com/2011/04...ience.html

Not safe for work. It's important to note that the article I cited isn't his only one on long distance training, there's about ten of them.

Let's say for example that this guy has no life and he quadrupled that amount. Let's say he worked out 8 hours a day.

This has been done by the Bulgarians for their olympic training. The remedy for that kind of training is to eat and sleep more and to never train to failure, which is precisely what Hades told the OP to do.

http://www.criticalbench.com/bulgarian-w...ifting.htm

Would you say that construction workers and stonemasons overtrain? A lot of them pick up some fairly heavy shit 8 to 10 hours a day on a diet of cheese and beer. I'm being completely serious here. If you got paid to work out for 8 hours a day five days a week, you would manage.

You can't do starting strength if you're not eating and sleeping properly. This guy wants to get big, he not only should train with a good workload, he should be informed that undereating and undersleeping are the main culprits behind the "dreaded overtraining plague".

Here's some more food for thought. This is not safe for work.

http://chaosandpain.blogspot.com/2010/05...2c830ead1a

(02-27-2013 04:31 PM)Enigma Wrote:  

This is absolutely ridiculous and beyond dangerous advice.

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So because you can work out 2 hours for 5 days a week with proper rest and nutrition it is impossible to overtrain?

What if you doubled, tripled, quadrupled that amount? What if you trained for marathons while also squatting for 5 hours a day? You're basically saying you won't overtrain if you don't overtrain. That is not the same thing as overtraining being an impossibility.