If you have ever been in a fight, you know the feeling of you temples pounding, neck tingling, skin flushing, heart beating out of your chest, body temperature seeming to rise. This is your body’s stress response telling you that you are in danger. Something is wrong. Your body is now shutting off certain functions in order to up-regulate its ability to run or fight. This is a sure-fire way for your body to release glucocordicoids and other stress hormones which retard protein synthesis and the ability of your body to produce growth hormones such as IGF-1 and HGH. For those of you who are thinking that is too much scientific mumbo jumbo…it means your body can’t grow and will become catabolic if you continue these workouts. If you go to the top of the paragraph and read the description of how your body feels in a fight, you’ll know how your body feels after a Crossfit workout. Do yourself a favor and give your body sufficient time to rest and complete each set with maximum power production. Otherwise, you will once again retard your fitness level by downgrading your endocrine system
