Hormonal balance plays a major role in energy, muscle repair, and overall training response. This topic explains how stress, sleep, and training load affect hormone function and what signs point to imbalance
1. Hormones regulate muscle repair.
2. Hormones control energy and inflammation.
3. Hormones affect sleep quality.
Hormones basically decide how fast your body can repair damaged tissue
Testosterone isn’t just strength it literally boosts protein synthesis
High stress hormones keep your body in break down mode instead of build up
Insulin sensitivity matters better nutrient partitioning faster rebuild
Chronically high cortisol wrecks muscle recovery more than people think
Estrogen actually helps joints and connective tissue recover underrated
Poor recovery usually means hormones are out of rhythm not just training too hard.
Most lifters hit a plateau not from training but from chronically stressed hormones
