Weekly exercise thread, August 25th 2023

3 years ago by DankZedong to c/swoletariat

This week has been so humid it's not even funny. It wasn't even that hot, like 26 degrees max or something. But the 80% humidity slapped me in the face. Every movement I did made me sticky.

Anyway, it hasn't stopped me from going at it. I did my strength exercises and my runs, and I'm starting to look more muscular than when I started after my three week holiday.

I did have a problem with fatigue this week. Despite eating and getting my macro's in, my body struggles to repair itself. I even didn't feel like working out at one point. I'm glad I did, though.

Anyone else experienced this before? And do you have any tips to combat it, maybe?

Giyuu 1 point 3 years ago

Whats your sleep looking like? If you're behind on (deep) sleep your body will not have enough time to recover. Cumulative sleep loss requires consistent deep sleep to fix. Right now I'm eating more, and I weighed at 79 kg (174 lbs) last week which was a two year high. But my sleep has been poor the last two weeks I skipped a workout on Saturday, and whilst I will be working out today after 8 hours sleep last night, I'm still pretty drained. What I've learned is that even if you think you're getting enough sleep, your body will know how much it actually needs and will feel accordingly. If you're lucky you might just need a mid day nap but if it's really bad it could take a week or more, iirc.

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DankZedong 1 point 3 years ago

You know what it might be my sleep. Last two weeks have been a bit more rough because of humidity, football matches, whatever. Is this what getting old is like lol? I remember the days where I could just not sleep and be fine.

Anyway, it's weekend now, and I can sleep 8+ hours finally.

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Giyuu 1 point 3 years ago

My guess is its may be just as much aging as it is having additional responsibilities and stresses. These things wear you out and require sleep to repair, even if the damage isn't muscular (I'm guessing there may be build up of bad chemicals in the brain and maybe some neuron damage that only sleep can eliminate and repair). Then you add in the physical damage from working out and if you add all these things together, if you come up short on sleep eventually I think you just hit a wall where your body says no more.

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earthling 0 points 3 years ago

Despite the heat, I got on the treadmill a couple times this week, so I'm proud of myself. I did some interval training with incline walking and running, but for less time than I would have liked to, because of the heat. I'm doing this thing where I don't push myself so much that I'll dread coming back, I make exercise as much fun as possible and that still includes getting tired and sweating!

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DankZedong 1 point 3 years ago

Making exercise more fun is great. You may even find yourself pushing further once you get used to it. The most important part is being able to consistently lift over constantly pushing yourself 💪🏼

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