Excessive endurance training combined with a calorie deficit can negatively impact testosterone levels. — Whalespan
Excessive endurance training combined with a calorie deficit can negatively impact testosterone levels.
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“Like if you exercise too much and you're a healthy a young healthy male, you can actually decrease testosterone level, right? Like endurance training can shut down your testosterone production, your your reproductive system basically.”
“I think it is pretty dramatic pending it exceeds your capacity to recover. So that sounds like a weird way to answer the question, but like some people have a higher tolerance for stress and that's, you know, reliance on a bunch of different factors, but if you are somebody who is not fueling yourself correctly to handle that amount of endurance training, like you were, let's just say you're in a calorie deficit and you're trying to be like, I don't know, six-pack shredded for the summer and like look as good as possible, but also fuel your like endurance event efforts, like you're probably like not doing two you're not doing two birds one's don't stone like you're”