The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
Also I want to mention women can recover a little bit better than men. The research is mixed but having trained men and women my whole like for literally like 30 years now I will tell you women recover better. like I don't need studies to tell me that they can do a little more volume.
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I think most people are not at risk of overtraining. I think especially your average female population. I I think there are issues with female athletes certainly, but I think there's a lot of concern about, you know, needing recovery or or or inflammation that it's probably overblown because, you know, true overtraining, we get red flags that would manifest in other ways.