Hi all,
I've been faithfully going to practice 6x week for the past last year without missing but for the occasional work event/meeting keeping me away. I'd say about two weeks ago, after having a few months of making some good improvement in my times, I just started to feel bad in the water in general. I didn't feel like I was progressing at all. I felt like getting through practice was all I could do. I'm not ill or anything.
Now for the past week except for Monday, I've ignored all three of my alarm clocks and have not come to practice despite a fully packed bag ready to go.
I guess I'm just a bit burned out. I feel guilty for missing and know that every day that I'm out of the water I will have a even more painful return swim, but that’s just not been enough to get me out of bed.
Any suggestions for beating burn out?
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I can train longer and much, much harder and I recover like a twelve-year-old (I'm 45), if I stick to a vegan, 60-80% raw diet :bliss:
If I eat meat, dairy products, refined sugar etc. I get tired, loose training motivation and generally find my couch more attractive than the pool :bed:
You can live an ordinary, western-style life on a rather lousy diet without really "paying" until you reach your late forties - or later, if you're lucky. If you train 6x week on a lousy diet, you will tire out (physically and mentally) sooner or later, no matter how young you are.
Most of us know what is good and what is bad for our bodies, the difficult thing is to actually do it: Take in a lot of the good stuff (fruits, vegetables, whole grain products, water), reduce the not so good stuff (light meat, white bread) and avoid the bad stuff (refined sugar, tobacco, alcohol, caffeine, red meat, animal fat, industry processed food, dairy products).
I can train longer and much, much harder and I recover like a twelve-year-old (I'm 45), if I stick to a vegan, 60-80% raw diet :bliss:
If I eat meat, dairy products, refined sugar etc. I get tired, loose training motivation and generally find my couch more attractive than the pool :bed:
You can live an ordinary, western-style life on a rather lousy diet without really "paying" until you reach your late forties - or later, if you're lucky. If you train 6x week on a lousy diet, you will tire out (physically and mentally) sooner or later, no matter how young you are.
Most of us know what is good and what is bad for our bodies, the difficult thing is to actually do it: Take in a lot of the good stuff (fruits, vegetables, whole grain products, water), reduce the not so good stuff (light meat, white bread) and avoid the bad stuff (refined sugar, tobacco, alcohol, caffeine, red meat, animal fat, industry processed food, dairy products).
