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).
Two sprint workouts in the last 3 months? That's gonna hurt.
I was thinking that we didn't do sprints that often, either, and whether that was a factor. But we do them more like 1-2 times a week. In any case, today was a distance day, but we did a timed 1000 as part of the workout. I pushed it pretty hard and felt really strong while I was swimming and fine when I finished. But after lunch and a shower, I felt lightheaded and tired. After about a 20 minute nap (there was no choice -- I couldn't work), I felt much better.
Oh, no banana today -- by the time I remembered, it was too late. :( I tried the watered-down gatorade instead. My stomach even had trouble with that. Argh. More core work. Not giving up.
Two sprint workouts in the last 3 months? That's gonna hurt.
I was thinking that we didn't do sprints that often, either, and whether that was a factor. But we do them more like 1-2 times a week. In any case, today was a distance day, but we did a timed 1000 as part of the workout. I pushed it pretty hard and felt really strong while I was swimming and fine when I finished. But after lunch and a shower, I felt lightheaded and tired. After about a 20 minute nap (there was no choice -- I couldn't work), I felt much better.
Oh, no banana today -- by the time I remembered, it was too late. :( I tried the watered-down gatorade instead. My stomach even had trouble with that. Argh. More core work. Not giving up.
