In his song "Stronger," Kanye West repeats the phrase "do it faster, makes us stronger!"
Unfortunately Kanye's claim is incorrect as it relates to training. Doing any type of strength or cardio work too quickly will ultimately result in cumulative microtrauma and eventually overtraining.
Overtraining is an "accumulation of training and/or non training stress resulting in a long term decrement in performance capacity with or without related physiological and psychological signs and symptoms of overtraining in which restoration of performance capacity may take from several weeks to several months." *
Rather than compromising your long term training goals, its best to "do it cyclical to make you stronger." That can be done by incorporating rest between bouts of training, varying training methods, getting proper rest, eating a sensible (nutritious) diet and incorporating light resistance weight training into a periodized schedule.
When approached sensibly, as noted above, cellular destruction will not occur, muscle glycogen levels will remain steady, energy levels will not drop and you will be "faster and stronger"!
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