Overtraining, or undersleeping, or something...

[flexagon]

I'm enjoying workouts so much less than usual. :-( Overtraining? Undersleeping? Just getting mentally too wound around an axle? Workouts are okay but the work-stress is making it all be too much? All I know is that I'm not taking my usual joy in the things I can do.

I don't think having goals is good for me.

Taking tomorrow off to look at tidepools with norwoodbridge, thank goodness. And this weekend I'm going to sleep a lot.

Comments

[nahele-101.livejournal.com]

I track all my workouts in my log and one of the things I track is amount of sleep before a work out (also mood, intake and stress levels.) I've noticed that when I lack sleep, my workouts go to complete and utter crap.

[flexagon]

This is of interest to me! What do you use to log them? Just a notebook, or something high-tech? I've been thinking of trying to keep better track -- I'm less in control of my workout load on a day-to-day basis since I'm taking so many classes now, and fitting my own strength/flex workouts in around them on a very ad-hoc basis.

[khamsin.livejournal.com]

It seems like the season for that. My roommate and I are both runners, and we've both hit a wall, which is OK for me as my last race is this weekend, but not for her, as she has a couple of weeks to go til her 2nd marathon. Hang in there.

[flexagon]

Thanks! I'm hanging... and on my way to the tide pools, full of bacon and coffee.

(Me, that is, not the tide pools.)

[khamsin.livejournal.com]

Tide pools full of bacon and coffee sound AMAZING.