Building myself back up
-
Ridiculous amounts of work and not enough sleep. Still got two swimming sessions in on wed and Thurs but gym was shut when I went on Thurs morning. Was thinking about gym today but just too farked. Probably ok with a rest. Will shoot for gym-pool tomorrow morning.
-
Last 3 days really good although chest/biceps then swimming isn't recommended. Had a great sleep on Saturday to Sunday then eldest wanted to go for a run! Went with him. Did about 6km which was a great effort from him.
Today I got up early and hammered legs before swimming. That makes more sense although was a bastard session with IM. Farking hate IM. Butterfly is not natural and why tf would you want to swim on your back?
-
Pretty farking shitty end to last week. Did chest and biceps on Thursday morning and after breakfast stood up and nearly passed out. Happened suddenly. Went to the doc and thankfully nothing serious but he suspected it was the flu coming on. Shit. But just got blood test back and it was low blood sugar. Basically I've been training too much and not eating enough. Still not 100% yet, but at least good to know the cause. Been told to eat more and cut out one of the swimming days. No big surprise. Have been overdoing it recently and the lack of sleep and long work days don't help.
Keen to get back into it tomorrow but will take it easy. Lesson learned.
-
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Building myself back up:
Pretty farking shitty end to last week. Did chest and biceps on Thursday morning and after breakfast stood up and nearly passed out. Happened suddenly. Went to the doc and thankfully nothing serious but he suspected it was the flu coming on. Shit. But just got blood test back and it was low blood sugar. Basically I've been training too much and not eating enough. Still not 100% yet, but at least good to know the cause. Been told to eat more and cut out one of the swimming days. No big surprise. Have been overdoing it recently and the lack of sleep and long work days don't help.
Keen to get back into it tomorrow but will take it easy. Lesson learned.
Not enough leg work ?
Seriously, look after yourself me old mate. We only get one body and despite defying the years time will catch up with us at some stage, ya gotta listen to it.
-
@MN5 said in Building myself back up:
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Building myself back up:
Pretty farking shitty end to last week. Did chest and biceps on Thursday morning and after breakfast stood up and nearly passed out. Happened suddenly. Went to the doc and thankfully nothing serious but he suspected it was the flu coming on. Shit. But just got blood test back and it was low blood sugar. Basically I've been training too much and not eating enough. Still not 100% yet, but at least good to know the cause. Been told to eat more and cut out one of the swimming days. No big surprise. Have been overdoing it recently and the lack of sleep and long work days don't help.
Keen to get back into it tomorrow but will take it easy. Lesson learned.
Not enough leg work ?
Seriously, look after yourself me old mate. We only get one body and despite defying the years time will catch up with us at some stage, ya gotta listen to it.
Ha ha. Actually legs have actually been wellpounded recently. I even have calves poking through!
Cheers Mate. The body will eventually tell you when it's had enough. Thankfully it wasn't too dramatic. The ridiculous thing is that I had the blood test the day after I'd been to the doc and then went crazy on the sugar (softdrinks and sweets). Blood sugar must have been crazy low the day I nearly passed out.
-
Got back to the gym today and it went ok. Did about 80% and that was enough. Still not back to fully fit but happy it wasn't anything serious or neck related. I was getting some shoulder twinges before the low blood sugar so the time off certainly helped that. Feels fine now.
-
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Building myself back up:
The ridiculous thing is that I had the blood test the day after I'd been to the doc and then went crazy on the sugar (softdrinks and sweets). Blood sugar must have been crazy low the day I nearly passed out.
Rebound hyperglycemia? Usually associated with diabetes and insulin shots but I think can happen to anyone. Best not to try and immediately get the sugar levels up too quickly as it can actually cause a dip (or something like that). An aircraft accident was put down to it many years ago. Pilot hadn't eaten for ages and started eating chocolate bars and sweets. Apparently caused things to get worse temporarily. Passed out, crashed before sugar levels stabilised (don't know enough about it know how long that takes).
-
Agree with the advice shared, take it easy and take your time building back up. You've been doing a power of work and need to find that balance with fueling the machine. Not to mention sleep, do you crash out at like 8pm or something to get the zzz's in before your am swim sessions??
-
@Snowy said in Building myself back up:
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Building myself back up:
The ridiculous thing is that I had the blood test the day after I'd been to the doc and then went crazy on the sugar (softdrinks and sweets). Blood sugar must have been crazy low the day I nearly passed out.
Rebound hyperglycemia? Usually associated with diabetes and insulin shots but I think can happen to anyone. Best not to try and immediately get the sugar levels up too quickly as it can actually cause a dip (or something like that). An aircraft accident was put down to it many years ago. Pilot hadn't eaten for ages and started eating chocolate bars and sweets. Apparently caused things to get worse temporarily. Passed out, crashed before sugar levels stabilised (don't know enough about it know how long that takes).
That would explain it. Cheers for the info.
Yeah I'm being sensible this week. Looking back, I was being a bit stupid. I was only getting 5.5 to 6 hours sleep most nights. That's not enough when you're doing 8-9 sessions a week. Ultimately your body will eventually tell you when enough is enough.
-
@Rancid-Schnitzel ugh, dude that's roughly my average sleep and I've got a 2.5 year old!
With that level of activity I'd be aiming for 7 hours absolute minimum. Gotta give yourself a chance to recover and benefit from all that training bro.
-
@Paekakboyz said in Building myself back up:
@Rancid-Schnitzel ugh, dude that's roughly my average sleep and I've got a 2.5 year old!
With that level of activity I'd be aiming for 7 hours absolute minimum. Gotta give yourself a chance to recover and benefit from all that training bro.
She's 2.5 now? Damn time flies.
You're 100% right mate. I was taking the piss and got done for it. But that shit gets addictive you know. Nothing better to thrash out the pressures of life.
-
@Rancid-Schnitzel ha ha crazy aye - time flies when you are sleep deprived and smitten with your little one.
Absolutely agree with the need to smash out the training mahi - but we know how important sleep is for performance (giggity) and to get the most gains from your efforts.
Hopefully framing it as more sleep = better performance and results makes it an easier tweak to your regime
-
@Paekakboyz said in Building myself back up:
@Rancid-Schnitzel ha ha crazy aye - time flies when you are sleep deprived and smitten with your little one.
Absolutely agree with the need to smash out the training mahi - but we know how important sleep is for performance (giggity) and to get the most gains from your efforts.
Hopefully framing it as more sleep = better performance and results makes it an easier tweak to your regime
The odd bad sleep is ok as long as you make up for it later in the week I reckon
-
@MN5 funnily enough there has been a bit of research around that from a training perspective. Unfortunately it points to the catch up sleep not being that effective in offsetting the impact of poor sleep!! which sucks ass ha ha. But from a day-to-day perspective I definitely feel better when I've managed to get a long sleep after a series of short nights.
-
@Paekakboyz said in Building myself back up:
@MN5 funnily enough there has been a bit of research around that from a training perspective. Unfortunately it points to the catch up sleep not being that effective in offsetting the impact of poor sleep!! which sucks ass ha ha. But from a day-to-day perspective I definitely feel better when I've managed to get a long sleep after a series of short nights.
I never thought much about sleep until my first kid was born. I always thought the more you slept the more rested you were, but that's certainly not the case if you're not used to sleeping much. I remember our first weekend away from the boy. I must have slept 11-12 hours and felt like an absolute zombie the next day. It's like your body switches from rest mode to hibernation mode. Since then I've always been conscious of not sleeping more than 7-8 hours because I just feel like crap afterwards. Obviously it would help if I got used to that pattern of sleep but unfortunately that's not going to happen for the next decade or so....
-
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Building myself back up:
@Paekakboyz said in Building myself back up:
@MN5 funnily enough there has been a bit of research around that from a training perspective. Unfortunately it points to the catch up sleep not being that effective in offsetting the impact of poor sleep!! which sucks ass ha ha. But from a day-to-day perspective I definitely feel better when I've managed to get a long sleep after a series of short nights.
I never thought much about sleep until my first kid was born. I always thought the more you slept the more rested you were, but that's certainly not the case if you're not used to sleeping much. I remember our first weekend away from the boy. I must have slept 11-12 hours and felt like an absolute zombie the next day. It's like your body switches from rest mode to hibernation mode. Since then I've always been conscious of not sleeping more than 7-8 hours because I just feel like crap afterwards. Obviously it would help if I got used to that pattern of sleep but unfortunately that's not going to happen for the next decade or so....
Weβre all wired a bit differently. I have Sunday as my only really free day and if I feel like staying in bed til late morning then I fucken well do so. Love a good lie in !!
My boys also point out I fall asleep on the couch occasionally in classic βdadβ fashion.....mouth open snoring loudly
-
@MN5 said in Building myself back up:
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Building myself back up:
@Paekakboyz said in Building myself back up:
@MN5 funnily enough there has been a bit of research around that from a training perspective. Unfortunately it points to the catch up sleep not being that effective in offsetting the impact of poor sleep!! which sucks ass ha ha. But from a day-to-day perspective I definitely feel better when I've managed to get a long sleep after a series of short nights.
I never thought much about sleep until my first kid was born. I always thought the more you slept the more rested you were, but that's certainly not the case if you're not used to sleeping much. I remember our first weekend away from the boy. I must have slept 11-12 hours and felt like an absolute zombie the next day. It's like your body switches from rest mode to hibernation mode. Since then I've always been conscious of not sleeping more than 7-8 hours because I just feel like crap afterwards. Obviously it would help if I got used to that pattern of sleep but unfortunately that's not going to happen for the next decade or so....
Weβre all wired a bit differently. I have Sunday as my only really free day and if I feel like staying in bed til late morning then I fucken well do so. Love a good lie in !!
My boys also point out I fall asleep on the couch occasionally in classic βdadβ fashion.....mouth open snoring loudly
For sure. My wife could sleep for half the day and be fresh as a fooken daisy. I got about 8.5 hours last night and am pretty lethargic today.
Your boys will hopefully film that and put it on Facebook one day!
-
So after much umming and ahhing I decided to go to swimming last night. It went really well. I didn't pass out in the pool and felt much better after the session. Wasn't too intense but tough enough. The crazy thing with fitness is how it takes quite a lot of time to get to a certain level but you can lose that fitness so quickly.
Chest and triceps today. Not bad. Bit of a rush but a handy sesh.
-
@Rancid-Schnitzel swimming, especially how you've been going, sounds really demanding on the body. Not in stressful way, but as a merger of form, cardio and endurance. It's certainly got a massive skill component alongside the fitness side of things!!
Awesome to hear it went well tho
-
@Paekakboyz said in Building myself back up:
@Rancid-Schnitzel swimming, especially how you've been going, sounds really demanding on the body. Not in stressful way, but as a merger of form, cardio and endurance. It's certainly got a massive skill component alongside the fitness side of things!!
Awesome to hear it went well tho
Yeah it's like the ultimate pump type workout, particularly if it's anerobic. Really great and addictive training but you don't feel the need for fluids as much afterwards and that has been my issue. I also don't think it's a coincidence that I cut out sugar about 3 weeks ago. Have to find that balance and clearly I stuffed it up. But it's not really a bad thing when the doc tells you to exercise less and eat more!