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If you train too much, your performance can drop and stay low for months — and even after you recover, you won’t get any stronger or faster.
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The study looked at overtraining in weightlifting and found that while performance can drop temporarily, there's no strong proof it stays low for months or never gets better after rest.
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The study agrees that overtraining syndrome causes a long-term drop in performance, but it does not say that an athlete can never improve their performance again after they have recovered.
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