Hi Gang,
I'm in my mid-fifties and find I am tired for two days following a hard Sunday workout. It's been sometime since I've pushed myself physically like this so I'm not used to needed a decent amount of recovery time.
When I say I am tired what I mean is I feel that my eyes are heavy and I'm not up for doing exercise for 2 days after my workout. I've been back at swimming for about 3 months and currently push myself at least 1x per week under a coach. This equals about 3000 yards.
Any thoughts and/or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
I think you did too much too soon. If you can't recover from a workout in 24 hr it is likely you did too much. You are just getting back in to it. Give you body time to adjust with less intense work until that is comfortable and then increase the effort slowly. In another 3 mo. that workout will be much easier to recover from.
Can you talk a little bit more about recovery and response to training volume increase? Any thoughts on how soon an intensity increase can elicit changes in fitness/speed?
I think you did too much too soon. If you can't recover from a workout in 24 hr it is likely you did too much. You are just getting back in to it. Give you body time to adjust with less intense work until that is comfortable and then increase the effort slowly. In another 3 mo. that workout will be much easier to recover from.
Can you talk a little bit more about recovery and response to training volume increase? Any thoughts on how soon an intensity increase can elicit changes in fitness/speed?
