# Any Personal Trainers/Nutritionalists out there who can help answer these questions?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-personal-trainers-nutritionalists-out-there-who-can-help-answer-these-questions/205365>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 3, 2003, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-personal-trainers-nutritionalists-out-there-who-can-help-answer-these-questions/205365 "2003-10-03T16:06:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![vasyachkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c5a1d2/32.png) [@vasyachkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vasyachkin)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2003, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-personal-trainers-nutritionalists-out-there-who-can-help-answer-these-questions/205365/21 "2003-10-10T02:36:01Z")

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the point at which you begin to overtrain depends on your nutrition and how much sleep you get. even without steroids i could do almost 20 hours per week of exercise this summer because i basically slept the rest of the day and ate all the time, including about twice during the night.

without much sleep, protein or during-workout shakes i would probably start overtraining at about 5 hours per week 🙂

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**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2003, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-personal-trainers-nutritionalists-out-there-who-can-help-answer-these-questions/205365/22 "2003-10-10T15:21:30Z")

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For the average guy who works, can only sleep 7-8 hours a night, has a social life, and doesn’t use steroids, it’s best to keep workouts short (45-60 minutes) and never go more than two days in a row with intense workouts.

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