re: Anyone experience Low T caused by too much working out?

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Yes, it can be a thing

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Sure, but the degree of stress necessary to significantly lower serum T (ie, exercise with chronic insufficient recovery) would be accompanied by a like-level of fatigue. Fatigue, not just tired.

If you're not fatigued and have low T and work out a lot, it's probably not because you work out "too much".

Sounds like you might just have normal Low T. At your age it's totally normal.

When you get your T levels checked, make sure they do a Free Testosterone test as well. Test needs to be attached to a protein in order to be used by your body. Free T is floating around your body going unused.

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start tracking your calories and protein and stop doing so much damn cardio.

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not sure how much benefit it would do me considering all the healthy foods out there are ones i avoid, lol

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training for an endurance event, sure. but because you ate some carbs

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not training for an endurance event per se

but i enjoy active and outdoor living and still tons of stuff i want to be able to do and don’t want age to get in the way

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Quit doing all that cardio bro

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Cardio bros = low T confirmed

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For the last three + years i can count on one hand how many days i didn’t work out

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This is probably the bulk of your problem right here. Your body needs rest and off days. The equation is not just more > less.

You should be going to the gym 6 days a week max. Probably 5 for your level of dieting. You don’t feed yourself correctly to get any benefit from going to the gym that much.

It is crazy that you are only 150 lbs having weight trained for 1+ hour every day for the past 3 years. Not to be overly harsh or critical but it sounds like everything you are doing is counter productive.

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ut do whatever you want, but if you arent going to even entertain suggestions wtf was the point of the post?

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it’s partly because i don’t know where to begin with numbers and what i should be looking at to maintain weight

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you prolly need a minimum of 2000 cals to maintain weight: 150g pro=600 cals split the other 1400 calories however you see fit but a quick 200g carbs, 65g fat should give you plenty of room

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this helps, thanks

In this case I would say drop the weight training down.

I think you could get by with a nice 3 day a week bro split. Maybe throw in a 4th day to hit shoulders or abs or something on occasion. Keep your cardio routine. If you’ve got a pasta heavy diet with 400+g carbs a day you need it.

That would give your body the rest it needs, allow you to keep your strength where it is without getting bigger, and your diet wouldn’t need much alteration (although that’s definitely a huge area for improvement).

This is a recommendation for you. To keep your targeted lifestyle and maybe boost the T back up. I’d never recommend someone do this as an affective training/diet regimen haha.

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but wasn’t a fan of how much mass i have gained

i enjoyed being strong, but hated how thick i’ve become

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I would think these statements are grounds for a ban from this board.

Seriously, I go lift heavy and I think my T spikes. Like I could frick a steel ball sideways when I get home and I am 51 on no gear and no outside T help.

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And you are 150 lbs. Something ain't working.

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I'm starting to smell some trolling off of the OP.

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my daily workouts consists of 1 hour weights and 1 hour treadmill on highest incline at 5.3 MPH (typically 2 hours on treadmill on weekends)

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this is absurd cut out like half that