In guys who lift weights a lot, certain chemicals in their urine that show stress on the body are closely linked to both worse performance and more training — meaning they might help tell when someone’s overdoing it.

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Oxidative stress biomarkers responses to physical overtraining: implications for diagnosis.

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2007 Sep 15

The study looked at how intense training affects certain chemicals in the body linked to stress, and found they strongly matched drops in performance, just like the claim says.

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Oxidative stress biomarkers responses to physical overtraining: implications for diagnosis.

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DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2007.05.022

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