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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Connie, I'm confused... are you saying you are very sleepy after a hard workout, but that you can't nap? I am very sleepy after a hard workout, and I have to fight not to nap. (A fight I often lose).
After a hard workout is the only time I *can* nap.
As in, I'm not normally sleep deprived, or an easy napper. That's why it's even more puzzling what it is that cuses such a need to nap after a swim workout.
I thought the epworth test was for the normal state, not how we feel after the workout. After the workout, if I need to sleep, I need to get to a nap ASAP, there's very little chance of fighting it. Feels like a stronger urge to sleep then if I was up for 24 hours straight.
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Connie, I'm confused... are you saying you are very sleepy after a hard workout, but that you can't nap? I am very sleepy after a hard workout, and I have to fight not to nap. (A fight I often lose).
After a hard workout is the only time I *can* nap.
As in, I'm not normally sleep deprived, or an easy napper. That's why it's even more puzzling what it is that cuses such a need to nap after a swim workout.
I thought the epworth test was for the normal state, not how we feel after the workout. After the workout, if I need to sleep, I need to get to a nap ASAP, there's very little chance of fighting it. Feels like a stronger urge to sleep then if I was up for 24 hours straight.