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).
Have you taken your bp before and after a hard practice? If it really does plummet significantly, you should probably get it checked out.
Just on a whim, I googled "exercise induced hypotension" to see if there actually is such a phenomenon. It appears that there is.
Here is one of the web sites I found: www.cardiosmart.org/.../AskCardiologist.aspx
I really doubt you have any heart problems. My money is still on some kind of exercise induced hypoglycemia (which I get every time I don't have GU before practice.) If you haven't tried this yet, I really recommend it. It's not the greatest tasting stuff, but it prevents the bonk quite effectively.
Yeah, I don't think I have any heart problems either, just the low BP. Is there any way to measure that other than investing in a home BP monitor?
I may try the GU if my other solutions don't work. I tend to avoid what I see as expensive food products whose ingredients don't look like food to me, although perhaps that perception is not accurate in the case of GU.
Have you taken your bp before and after a hard practice? If it really does plummet significantly, you should probably get it checked out.
Just on a whim, I googled "exercise induced hypotension" to see if there actually is such a phenomenon. It appears that there is.
Here is one of the web sites I found: www.cardiosmart.org/.../AskCardiologist.aspx
I really doubt you have any heart problems. My money is still on some kind of exercise induced hypoglycemia (which I get every time I don't have GU before practice.) If you haven't tried this yet, I really recommend it. It's not the greatest tasting stuff, but it prevents the bonk quite effectively.
Yeah, I don't think I have any heart problems either, just the low BP. Is there any way to measure that other than investing in a home BP monitor?
I may try the GU if my other solutions don't work. I tend to avoid what I see as expensive food products whose ingredients don't look like food to me, although perhaps that perception is not accurate in the case of GU.
