Critical Bench is a website dedicated to strength training, power lifting and affiliate marketing. Vince Delmonte is the author of No-Nonsense Muscle Building, a highly successful bodybuilding book.

The latest article on Critical Bench was written by Vince Delmonte and he has something interesting to say in the article.

He believes that micro-tears in your muscles is a result of overtraining.

Overtraining in your muscle has been shown to:

• Decrease testosterone levels
• Decrease thyroxine levels
• Increase cortisol levels

And can also cause:

• Higher resting heart rate
• Weak appetite
• High blood pressure
• Weight loss
• Trouble sleeping
• Increased metabolic rate
• Irritability
• Early onset of fatigue

So what we can conclude is that if we create micro-tears in our muscles, we have just decreased our testosterone, increased our blood pressure and fatigued our self, to mention a few.

The reason we find this fascinating is because the rest of the world believes that micro-tears in your muscles is what actually causes them to grow bigger and stronger. Without creating micro-tears in your muscle, you’re not going to gain any muscle. So does Vince have an explanation to this or should we recommend he change his book to “Nonsense Muscle Building”?

Beside this small issue, the rest of his advice is pretty good!

http://www.criticalbench.com/avoid_over_training_muscle.htm