getting weaker??? baffled

[Alex]

Originally posted by: SludgeFactory
OK, you're overtraining. With the amount of clock time you're describing here, I'm guessing you're doing way too much volume for the week.

You can train muscles every 48 hrs, if they're not still sore from DOMS. The problem is neural fatigue. You're lifting heavy, 1-2 hrs a day, 6 days a week. You can't blitz your nervous system like that and expect it to recover. That's why your strength has gone away.

If you want to continue with that 6 day split, keep your workouts in the 25-40 minute range. I'm not kidding, get in, do some compound lifts, and get out. That may even be too much, just experiment. 6 days/week is just a lot, too much for my blood I know. You may need to alternate light and heavy workouts for the specific muscle groups. You can hit the muscles more than 1X per week (and I prefer it), but if you're the type to go in and do an all-out, balls-to-the-wall, limp-out-of-the-gym-in-pain, HIT-style training session 6 out of 7 days a week, it's not going to work unless you're juicing.

And sleep as much as you can!

thats one thing i dont get a whole lot of sleep... 6 hours a night on avg id say...