How do others here get to do their work and good workouts at the same time? I usually train about 4000 yards a day but at the moment I have too much work where I need to concentrate. I often work until early in the morning. I work in animation so my work is always sitting down at my animation desk and computer.
I have to admit that I have a lot of work and if I'd do my swimming now I would get too tired at some point, so I took a break from swimming(and gained 10 lbs during this time:( )
I know I'll lose the weight as soon as I hit the pool again but also I will get less work done because I'll be drained.
How do others do it?
I was wondering if others take a break if they have too much work on their plate too.
I can train hard and work hard on the same day, but I can't sustain both simultaneously for weeks or months at a time. To the central nervous system, stress is stress, and it's cumulative. If you spend more time with your HR and BP up than you can recover from, you will become overtrained, and then both mentally and physically unhealthy, no matter whether the elevated HR and BP are from working out, or from listening to a client yell at you while you try to figure out how to get off the phone so that you can complete four other things for four other clients who are not currently yelling but who will be soon, or from grief over bad events in your family, or whatever else.
As Allen suggested, for me swimming easier and less is a better approach than not swimming at all. I see my friends, and I focus on technique and flexibility, but I slack. The swimming becomes a recovery exercise, not a high-intensity physical stressor. I spent most of this year that way, which meant I competed seldom and poorly but at least I am still alive and reasonably healthy.
I was wondering if others take a break if they have too much work on their plate too.
I can train hard and work hard on the same day, but I can't sustain both simultaneously for weeks or months at a time. To the central nervous system, stress is stress, and it's cumulative. If you spend more time with your HR and BP up than you can recover from, you will become overtrained, and then both mentally and physically unhealthy, no matter whether the elevated HR and BP are from working out, or from listening to a client yell at you while you try to figure out how to get off the phone so that you can complete four other things for four other clients who are not currently yelling but who will be soon, or from grief over bad events in your family, or whatever else.
As Allen suggested, for me swimming easier and less is a better approach than not swimming at all. I see my friends, and I focus on technique and flexibility, but I slack. The swimming becomes a recovery exercise, not a high-intensity physical stressor. I spent most of this year that way, which meant I competed seldom and poorly but at least I am still alive and reasonably healthy.