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Workout recovery for over 60

ZVP6H

I swim about 1600-2000 meters (short course) a couple of times a week, sometimes three. I'm looking for advice on how to improve my recovery. While I'm working out I feel great, but after, and for a good 24 hours after, I feel completely wiped out. I find it difficult to sleep after a workout (takes the form of waking up a lot during the night), which feels so counter-intuitive if I'm so spent and feeling good about it. 

I have never taken vitamins or supplements, only because I've never felt I needed to. But I figure I must be nutritionally deficient in something. I'd like to improve these recovery periods. Any advice?

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    I’m just wondering about the “waking up a lot during the night” on the days (night) you swim. Can you say what is causing that? And I’m wondering if that might only be indirectly related to your swimming. I.e. is it a prostate issue? In other words…is the timing and amount of fluids you are consuming for hydration as part of the workout in turn causing you to wake up multiple times throughout the night to urinate? I’m 63, but at around 60 years old I was having all the classic enlarged prostate issues…especially when I’d workout, and consume additional fluids later in the day. I had the laser prostate reduction procedure and it really reduced nighttime urination. — Dan

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    Hi Dan...thanks for replying....no it's been like this since I was in my 30s. I've read that my workouts could be producing a lot of adrenaline that just doesn't calm down (if that's the term). Like a lot of folks I probably don't drink enough water, especially after an evening workout. I do experience the night peeing issue but it's worse when I drink alcohol...I like a vodka drink after work (I really am just a one-drink minimum) and as I've cut out the vodka I notice I don't have the frequency of urination, sometimes not at all during the night. Getting old sure is an obstacle course. 

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    I wake up repeatedly if I did not hydrate enough during the day. My method: I swim in the morning and guzzle water during and after the swim. As long as I take in the majority of my fluids before evening, I don't have to wake up to urinate during the night. During the swim, I drink water with a small amount of flavorless electrolytes; most of the rest of my fluids during the day are plain water. I swim 2500-3000 yards 3x/week.

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    I wake up repeatedly if I did not hydrate enough during the day. My method: I swim in the morning and guzzle water during and after the swim. As long as I take in the majority of my fluids before evening, I don't have to wake up to urinate during the night. During the swim, I drink water with a small amount of flavorless electrolytes; most of the rest of my fluids during the day are plain water. I swim 2500-3000 yards 3x/week.

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