Can you get fat through sport?
The short answer is yes.
Find out if you are affected and what you can do to avoid it.
One of the reasons for the problem is the well-known hormone cortisol, which we encounter again and again with too much stress and lack of sleep. If we have too much of it, the body goes into alarm. Our genetic heritage still associates the state of alert with food shortages and ensures that we have the necessary reserves with cravings and particularly efficient storage, which many of us do not actually want.
Sport can also put us in this unfavourable hormonal starting position. Anyone who trains for more than four hours a week, pinches off this time with great stress from somewhere else and has one or more of the following "symptoms" for weeks on end can be affected:
Poor sleep, bad mood, reduced libido and stubborn fat reserves that don't want to come down despite all the effort.
Strategies
Breaks and relief days - if you've already forced yourself to work out and it's still not fun after 10 minutes, there's no shame in taking a day off. Try to find days when you don't have to force yourself to do anything.
Get as much sleep as possible.
Variety in training
Women as well as men who eagerly train endurance from the age of 35 are well advised to do strength training now at the latest.
On the one hand, this preserves the (very slowly) dwindling muscle mass. On the other hand, it ensures high energy consumption and an increase in the counterpart of cortisol, namely testosterone; of course in gender-appropriate quantities.
So: Lift heavy, be happy!