What is the worst physical symptom you've had from overtraining?

I am very skinny. Just Kidding

I don't think there is over training, just bad training techniques.

I've never had blood emerge from my ass in noticeable quantities, but once, the day after a marathon, I anally expelled a mass of what I can only describe as mucus. It was completely painless, but a hassle to clean up. It was exactly as though I'd blown my nose, but with the wrong orifice. I had no further problems in the ensuing days and thought little of it until now; however, had I spewed shit out of my nostrils, I would have been deeply concerned.

There's an ideal training window for sexual function as well. Somewhere between 50 and 100 miles a week, I'd say. Much over that and your John Thomas becomes a useless dangling cylinder or flesh, one more weighty, annoying item to be toted around the track.

Now cures for overtraining?

i don't think any amount of running is worth not having a functional penis...though i can't imagine that ever happening to me, no matter how hard i trained.

i've had the bloody booty after shits thing before, though i never really associated it with overtraining...i just figured my crap was too big and hurt something down there...maybe this is not the case

When i first read that, i thought that it was really weird, but then i remmembered that something like that happened to me about a year ago. I dont know why it happened, but it only happened once, so i just forgot about it.

I used to have lots of problems with leg cramps - calves or hamstrings near the end of almost every speed workout. In high school, I once had just about every muscle in both legs from the hips down cramp up. I couldn't go up or down stairs for two days, and couldn't run for a week after that. I seem to have mostly outgrown the cramps, but back in the day, no amount of hydration or potassium or electrolytes seemed to keep them away.

Second worst thing that has happened to me is stomach cramps and diarrhea for 2 or 3 hours after practice. I used to believe that it was more important to get the interval sessions in than long runs when trying to get back in shape quickly after an injury, and the result would be a month or two during which these painful sessions followed every hard workout.

I've also had the blood in the stool thing. I actually went to a doctor once recently because it was a lot worse than normal. Turns out that long distance running shunts blood away from the intestines which can cause the problem. The doctor advised me be more careful to hydrate, especially before long runs. Haven't had the problem since.

Phila

One time I drank too much whiskey and woke up naked on the bathroom floor next to a pile of shit. That was pretty humiliating.

Uhhh.. you probably "shedded" some of your parietal serous membrane, which is the membrane that lines the inside of your colon and closed bosy cavities and is likened to wallpaper. Not too sure this is something to ignore but the body does shed dead skin so maybe that's what it was doing in a sense. Anything related to skin will regenerate fairly quickly, but scarring can occur too.

A partially torn Achilles tendon turned into a staph infection in Dec. 1994 caused by my sweaty, dirty sock rubbed through the skin. Started with having PT Mark Plattjes check it out, but his boss at the time sent me straight to the hospital because it was huge and red. "They" had to drain it in its most painful spot with a long needle for a very long half-hour. Kind of on par with being peeled, salted, and forced to listen to Alvin and the Chipmunks Hannukah album.

freaky hormone levels and depression

After setting a new PR in the marathon, I ramped up my training immediately afterward and suffered a month of what I called legs o' hamburger. This segued into a season of stomach cramps and non-stop bonks. It got to the point where I didn't know how far I could run before I'd bonk. One day on what was supposed to be an easy 10-miler, I bonked so bad I was disoriented. I didn't even know what city I was in or who I was. I ran/walked around for several hours not sure what to do and might have died out there had I not accidentally crossed paths with a runner who knew me. He took me to the nearest convenience store. A gallon of gatorade later, I snapped out of it and remembered only one thing about the last few hours: I promised myself that if I survived I'd ask my girlfriend to marry me. And I did.

can somebody explain the physiological rational behind the corrolation of bloody stools and overtraining? I experienced this a few weeks ago, but I don't understand why this happens, as compared to achy legs, higher rhr, etc. thanks

I haven't over trained yet, despite trying to a couple of times but the worst symtoms of good training I have had have been in no particular order lost toe nails, pissed blood, shit blood, spit up blood, popped a blood vessel on my eye so my eyes bled,night sweats, night cramps, quad,foot, calf, hamstring, hipflexor, to tired to sleep, slepted for 16hrs, got dehydrated and collapsed at the end of a long run, finished a twenty miler that had been at 6min pace for the first 18 with back to back 9min plus miles- again dehydration, and worst of all i once went a month with no sex or self service because i was too tired to care.

PS malmmo is right overtraining is a myth there is only forgetting to back off when it counts and sucking because of it

The summer of 1991, just after I graduated from college, I got into some serious eating disorder shit.

I was eating less than 1000 calories a day, and training 6 hours a day, 4 hours on the bike, 1 hour running and 2 hours walking.

I could not get a hard-on for MONTHS!!! My resting heart rate was down to 30, but I could not run faster than 7;30/mile.

My weight fell from 156 to 135. It was f***ing sick....I might have died if I did not eat fruit or salted foods.

Jason