Hi again guys. From the title I’m sure you can work out what I’m going to say! I have had a extremely difficult two days and my body is crying out at the moment. Thursday night I only got one hour sleep as the baby was awake all night and I had to be up for work at 04:30 this morning. Wednesday night was something very similar. I have never trained with so much intensity or volume ever and my body doesn’t know what has hit it as I have been training twice a day 4 - 5 days every week. I have been fuelling myself as best as I can with all the proper nutrition and supplementation but I still seem to have hit a wall. I reckon its the combination of lack of sleep, looking after a new baby, working and training twice a day.
As a result, I feel that my training has suffered over the last two days. Heart and Motivation is still very much in it but energy levels are gone way down. I do not have any training this weekend as I work 12 hour shifts on the weekend so I guess you could call that my rest!? All I can do is get through this period and take Monday off as a total rest day. I am meeting with Rob, the personal trainer on Tuesday so hopefully he can give some insight as to why I am feeling like this. Either way I am determined to get back on track!!
Thursdays training was Rob’s conditioning programme in the morning and a 20k sprint cycle in the evening. Both sessions I felt that I was seriously lacking energy. I wonder if it is a case of not eating enough food to sustain the amount of activity during my day? Friday’s (todays) training was worse than yesterdays. Trained legs in the morning and had planned another 20k sprint cycle but could only manage 12k before my legs completely blew up. Really mad at myself at the moment. So much so that I moved my planned cheat meal which is always Monday, forward to today. I have just pigged out on a big pizza and I am disgusted with myself!! No cheat meal for me on Monday as a result… A tired mind and strong will power are just on opposite ends of the scale I guess…
From this point all I can do is focus on my nutrition plan for the weekend (identical to last weekend) and try to get everything back into perspective. Hate to leave it on a bad note but I’m a bit depressed and fed up with myself at the moment. I’m sure that next week I will be back to normal. Fairly short post tonight but Im hitting the hay early folks!!!
Dave.
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