cortisol

[tornquad201]

what is the bodies response to cortisol after a workout, does it return to normal after the workout or stay elevated and any tips on keeping it down

 

[b_cornelius]

Eat your peas and carrots.

 

[Mini Truck]

TQ,

High intensity, shorter in time (60ish minutes) weight training sessions
will reduce the amount of cortisol your body produces, compared to
a longer less intense workout.

The same holds true for cardio. Thus, the effectiveness of HIIT style.

The more training you do, the better your body will become at dealing with physical stresses and decrease the need to release cortisol.

My belief is that shorter intense sessions done more frequently is the way to go. Training a body part 2-3 times a week works better than training each
body part once a week and killing it with too many sets.

There is a lag time, depending on how you train and your PWO nutrition, before the body returns to it's normal cortisol set point.
The goal is to make it as short as possible.

Go hard, go home! !

-MT

what is the bodies response to cortisol after a workout, does it return to normal after the workout or stay elevated and any tips on keeping it down

 

[tornquad201]

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doent your body adapt to your training stress,i ask because you here that high volume,low carb,high reps,train more then 45-60 min, raise cortisol then others say overtraining is bs and as long as your nutrition is good you be fine

 

[Asylum]

TQ,

High intensity, shorter in time (60ish minutes) weight training sessions
will reduce the amount of cortisol your body produces, compared to
a longer less intense workout.

The same holds true for cardio. Thus, the effectiveness of HIIT style.

The more training you do, the better your body will become at dealing with physical stresses and decrease the need to release cortisol.

My belief is that shorter intense sessions done more frequently is the way to go. Training a body part 2-3 times a week works better than training each
body part once a week and killing it with too many sets.

There is a lag time, depending on how you train and your PWO nutrition, before the body returns to it's normal cortisol set point.
The goal is to make it as short as possible.

Go hard, go home! !

-MT

Great piece of info

 

[Mini Truck]

I hear ya TQ.
Sometimes with so much info available to us, it can get confusing.

All training causes some degree of stress and thus some increase in cortisol levels.

My take on it is if you look at a competitive bodybuilder in prep mode for a show, who is on a low carb diet (50% or less of his normal daily carb intake),
it is more than likely the low carbs that may make the athlete feel like he is overtraining. Especially if he is doing 2-a-days plus too much cardio.

As an example, if someone is training, let's sat chest, 3 times a week, and doing 25+ sets, with a rep range of 12-25, supersets, drops, etc, and is doing so in attempts to burning body fat, for weeks on end, he will most likely not be
happy with his body fat levels because that type of approach will indeed keep his cortisol levels elevated. High cortisol levels = high(er) BF%.

If that same individual trained chest 3 times a week, say 8-10 working sets,
same reps or better yet different rep patterns with different loads each workout, then that athlete would more than likely be able to eat more carbs and avoid the extra cortisol levels and be leaner than the other way.

The first guy, depending on his threshold, has a far greater chance of walking the fine line of "overtraining".

The second guy, should feel and look much better and not be "overtraining".

But either guy, in a setting where the goal is to slowly get lean and stay lean,
should never feel he is in "suffer" mode.

If he does feel like this, there is probably other factor(s) at play.

And the other element is his level of enhancement, GH use or just HRT doses.
If he is hitting things hard, overtraining is almost impossible.

-MT

doent your body adapt to your training stress,i ask because you here that high volume,low carb,high reps,train more then 45-60 min, raise cortisol then others say overtraining is bs and as long as your nutrition is good you be fine

 

[metabz]

Cortisol is essential and there is no reason to try and reduce or suppress it unless you actually have Cushing's Syndrome or your cortisol levels are otherwise above the physiological range.

A meta-analysis of the research looking at hormonal responses to training in terms of GH, testosterone, and cortisol has actually found that cortisol has the highest association with positive training adaptations. Obviously this doesn't mean that cortisol is more anabolic than GH and test, but it likely means that higher training intensity = greater cortisol and greater growth.

In the big picture, short term hormonal responses to training are really minor factors.

 

[b_cornelius]

Cortisol is essential and there is no reason to try and reduce or suppress it unless you actually have Cushing's Syndrome or your cortisol levels are otherwise above the physiological range.

A meta-analysis of the research looking at hormonal responses to training in terms of GH, testosterone, and cortisol has actually found that cortisol has the highest association with positive training adaptations. Obviously this doesn't mean that cortisol is more anabolic than GH and test, but it likely means that higher training intensity = greater cortisol and greater growth.

In the big picture, short term hormonal responses to training are really minor factors.

I agree.

There are so many things more important than Testosterone and Cortisol.
Cortisol only does what it is allowed to do by the rest of the system. All the other particulars are what matters. It absolutely doesn't matter if cortisol acts on proteins. What matters is what kinds of proteins that it acts upon and where it acts.

And yes you need cortisol, sometimes a lot of it.