Sometimes after our workouts I feel completely wiped. (I refer to this as "blowing a gasket"). It's all I can do to drag myself to the car and drive home, which is luckily not very far. Usually it's a sprint workout that will do it. Let's just say that it makes it hard to get work done the rest of the day... Does this happen to anyone else? Any suggestions, other than "don't swim as hard," which seems to be defeat the reason why I am there in the first place? (It doesn't seem to me that I am swimming harder than anyone else).
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Sometimes after our workouts I feel completely wiped. (I refer to this as "blowing a gasket"). It's all I can do to drag myself to the car and drive home, which is luckily not very far.
When I first started training in January of this year I was the same way, completely wiped out after every. Just comatose. Now after training pretty hard for 7 months I'm not nearly as wiped out unless I really push myself in terms of distance, speed or both. I try to time my swim workouts later in the day so if I need to I can just go to bed earlier and I sleep REALLY well.
Also I've been doing more cross-training, working on my cardio-aerobic endurance - running, biking - and that seems to have helped.
But face it, swimming is a full body exercise -- it's work!
Enjoy!
Rob
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Sometimes after our workouts I feel completely wiped. (I refer to this as "blowing a gasket"). It's all I can do to drag myself to the car and drive home, which is luckily not very far.
When I first started training in January of this year I was the same way, completely wiped out after every. Just comatose. Now after training pretty hard for 7 months I'm not nearly as wiped out unless I really push myself in terms of distance, speed or both. I try to time my swim workouts later in the day so if I need to I can just go to bed earlier and I sleep REALLY well.
Also I've been doing more cross-training, working on my cardio-aerobic endurance - running, biking - and that seems to have helped.
But face it, swimming is a full body exercise -- it's work!
Enjoy!
Rob
