Well, it’s halftime and time to review our fitness game plan. After some reflection, I’m making a few alterations to my plan. I’ve suffered from fatigue this time around (just being dead-dog tired all the time) and need to change a few things in my life.
1. Cut out sugar. Eating clean is important and sugar is my crack cocaine. But it’s basically poison and my body pays for the instant high I get from it.
2. Run more. I only ran four times last month. I need to up my mileage. One way I’m doing that is running three laps before the workout. I’m going to start doing some evening runs along the way.
3. Push even harder on the stations. I’m in good enough shape to do the exercises. Now I need to focus on doing them right.
4. Drink more water. I think part of my fatigue is that I am constantly dehydrated.
Today was a good workout. Clark gave us the killer core combo with lots and lots of sit-ups. I did everything. Then we moved to Morgan’s station. Managed to chips and salsa all the way to the hash successfully. Ran with the weight, flipped the tractor tire and ran and did my pushups. My shoulder held up. In fact, today was a shoulder-intense day (with lots of bear crawls). But the real test for the shoulder was the weight room.
And it passed. In fact, I normally take a couple of ibuprofen before I workout. I forgot this morning and while the shoulder popped and was a little sore, it held up good.
It was a great way to start a Monday!
From my personal experience, if you do #4, the rest will be much easier. Drink more watee than you think you need, and then drink some more.
I admire your approach and although you didn’t ask for suggestions, I’ll throw out a few to ponder as you make your plan to deal with the fatigue. Feel free to ignore.
– Definitely I’ll echo Elisa on the water, but consider your electrolytes might be out of balance, too. (my doctor recently discovered that I was seriously low on sodium, just the opposite of most guys in their 60’s.)
Most of the commercial electrolyte drinks have a lot of sugar (and expensive), so check out Kroger’s “Hydration, Lemon-Lime, naturally flavored instant drink mix”. (It’s in a small 4 inch blue/green box…some stores put it with the KoolAid, some with the Gatorade.) Just mix a “stick packet” with 20 oz of water. $1.79 for ten packets.
– Ask your doctor to check sodium & potassium levels next checkup.
– Think about making some of your additional runs “water-runs”. They’re easier on your joints. My CC kids squeezed in a 3rd workout a day using water-runs during pre-season at Shirley’s lake.
We did water-runs in deep water, floating vertical with the shoulders just at the surface using ski-belts or scuba vests. Focus on vigorous shoulder action and try to make the legs keep up. I had them “run” a mix of fast & slow intervals on my whistle. You might try “running” fartleks for 30 minutes. (some methods have the runner just barely touching the bottom of the pool)
– Most likely you need to add rest days. Gotta let the muscles recover.