Feeling exhausted after workouts?

How's it going Philo? Are you doing some twisting motion workouts as well as standard situps? Yes, I am, thanks. It's going OK. Still getting wiped out sometimes (see a couple of posts above you). But I'm willing to stick this out a bit and see where it goes.

Thursday night we had a fun little spring workout. Now the times are slow because I'm slow, I'll have you know I had an average of 10-15 seconds rest. 50 Pull(1:00) 100 (2:00) 25 all out (0:45) 3 1 2 3 2 4 3 3 6 3 4 8 Now - about a week ago - I was swimming 100s on about 1:55-2:00ish. This last week - I've been so busy I haven't been able to lift at all, and I was swimming them on 1:40-1:45! That was exciting - but I can honestly say even though I went 100% all out (I love sprints, and I want to beat all of the other people on my interval - no matter what) on every swim, I wasn't completely cashed out at the end of the night. Now - it could be because I had a hammer gel going in to practice - but that was because I hadn't' eaten since about 3-4 hours before practice... However - I felt pretty decent (tired, but decent) after practice was done. How's it going Philo? Are you doing some twisting motion workouts as well as standard situps? If you want a great book with exercises - I recommend the Abs Diet: Amazon.com: The Abs Diet: The Six-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life (9781579549985): David Zinczenko, Ted Spiker: Books

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? Yup. I have to admit that I skip a workout if I have a lot of work. I did two tough sprint workouts the last two days and still feel sluggish. I find that I always have to compromise between tough workouts and everyday life.

Philo, try GU. It really works. I used to have one of the gel packets before every practice but recently switched to the Chomps variety, which I prefer for taste purposes (also more calories in a packet.) If I have a GU, I never bonk. Plus it is very easy on the stomach.

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. Gatorade in any concentration seems to give me trouble. I like water better if I am exerting myself, and like milk for post-workout recovery. Chocolate milk is arguably even better, but phenylethylamine is implicated as a migraine trigger.

Here's my latest. Earlier this week, many hours after my workout, I found myself at one of those restaurants where you sit on the floor for a long time and stuff yourself full of food. When I got up, I felt very dizzy and nauseous. I went outside to get some fresh air, but couldn't get it under control. Sitting down and putting my head between my knees didn't help. Finally I laid down and put my feet up, and that helped almost immediately. (Yes, I made quite the scene). But I basically felt like crap the rest of the evening. So, my latest hypothesis is that low blood pressure is the culprit, at least partially. My blood pressure tends to be on the low side anyway, and as I get into better and better shape, it gets lower and my dizziness episodes increase. (I've experienced this at other points in my life, unrelated to swimming). Today we did sprints and I was feeling pretty poorly afterward. (Banana was consumed ~1 hr before... I did not like banana in my stomach at all). So, I had some chocolate milk, which definitely helps, and then thought, why not lie down proactively, rather than try to fight through it and then succumb later? So, I put my feet up for just a few minutes. That seems to have made all the difference. I can't say that I am leaping around the room, but I don't feel that overpowering urge to nap. I think my blood really gets pumping while I swim, and then as I cool down in the pool and afterward, less blood is going to my brain and I feel faint. The longer it stays like that, the worse it is for me, until I just completely bonk. And that is my hypochondriac's analysis for the day. :-) Thanks again to everyone for all of the good suggestions.

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.

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 tried extra iron (Fe)? If your taking any Rx's, see if there could be any side effects associated with what you experience. I try to keep an eye on my diet, iron-wise (and sometimes I forget), but no iron pills, no. My main Rx is anti-histamines... can't seem to get my damn allergies under control.

I try to keep an eye on my diet, iron-wise (and sometimes I forget), but no iron pills, no. My main Rx is anti-histamines... can't seem to get my damn allergies under control. What anithistamine are you taking? Many of them, including Benadryl, will make you drousy! :afraid:Claritin is now available as a generic and won't make you drousy. And, the generic is very inexpensive at Costco.