Was wondering if anyone had experience with this?
Sometimes after a hard workout I find myself I am like a zombie, Spaced out, extremely tired with energy to do NOTHING. Also I am a bit grouchy, so says my GF.
Is this normal as I ramp up my volume? Am I not fueling properly before the workout?
Any help would be great
Pretty normal after a HARD/LONG workout. I live for that feeling!
Just make sure you aren’t feeling that way more than once a week or so. If you are, I would worry you are going too hard and or long for your fitness level.
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I’ve had it happen at work before while I was out in the field, so I had to kind of just stop and regroup. Now I always keep a bar of some sort in my bag when I leave the office
it is the best way to feel on a Sunday afternoon
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Fueling before the workout is definitely important, but I would modify your question to say : “Am I not fueling properly DURING the workout?” You obviously aren’t going to replenish all that you lose during the workout but what are you putting into your system?
Eat some food.
Happens to me after a long, hard workout. Get some nutrition when you’re done and relax. I’m usually feeling better after a few hours. Try not to be grouchy with your GF. I’ve found that I can’t fuel enough during the workout to not have this feeling at the end. If I can, then it wasn’t as long or hard as I thought.
Am I not fueling properly before the workout?
How long are these workouts? If you’re feeling like that after hard, but short workouts, I think you might be pushing a little too hard.
I usually feel pretty good after hard workouts. I only feel the way you’re describing if I don’t fuel enough during long workouts (4+ hours). I’ve gotten a lot better about avoiding depleting myself like that and my consistency has improved because of it.
I noticed on your Fundraising page you’re doing IM Florida. You have a lot of time left to train. It’s only Feb. Don’t wear yourself out before race season starts.
Am I not fueling properly before the workout?
How long are these workouts? If you’re feeling like that after hard, but short workouts, I think you might be pushing a little too hard.
I usually feel pretty good after hard workouts. I only feel the way you’re describing if I don’t fuel enough during long workouts (4+ hours). I’ve gotten a lot better about avoiding depleting myself like that and my consistency has improved because of it.
I noticed on your Fundraising page you’re doing IM Florida. You have a lot of time left to train. It’s only Feb. Don’t wear yourself out before race season starts.
I am usually fine. I have just had a few hard trainer workouts and although I fuel after (smoothie with coconut milk, banana, bravado and protein) I am just useless for a few hours after> some days it just hits me hard and others i am fine.
I assume you are eating a well balanced meal after the workout. I do so, & still do not want to do much for a couple of hours. I am now 74 & don’t remember when about when I was younger. In my sixties I found via computrainer sessions that I did not recover for 2 days after a hard workout. I now do one hard interval session per week with various other intensity rides & lengths. I don’t eat much prior to a hard interval session since food not digested will cause stomach upset.
It’s normal. After a hard race/workout, I eat a ton and then take a nap for an hour on the couch.
you didnt bonk, youre just tired, only time ive bonked in 20 plus years of endurance sports is at end of marathons and ironman, your pretty much so out of calories that your brain doesnt even work right, its the worst feeling in the world
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Goregrind, thats is a blessing, if you can bottle it and sell it, Ill pay.
I have a wickedly fast metabolism, and a schitzophrenic (sp???) blood sugar level, when I was a kid, I’d fall asleep on the high chair until mum got some jam sandwiches into me. I have a better handle on it now, but bonking is a weekly risk. When it comes on, it comes quick, and I’ll be pretty much fubar’ed for the rest of the day.
I’ve experimented with the level of nutrition and can keep things in check, but find I have to really up the calorie intake when going through long training blocks, and really have to think ahead with meals - I guess it’s all part of the discipline of endurance training.
Plan you meals before and after your work outs, and keep the calories going in through all sessions, no matter how short - the cumulative effect of not fueling will catch up with you.
you arent bonking, a bonk is a total nightmare, its not something that happens during a workout unless your workout is an all out 26 mile run, its from going to fast for you fitness level at a long race, doesnt matter what you eat
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Damn – sounds like I have been bonking for 3 years now…
We’ll usually not straight away
But if the missus wants to I’m right to go after a shower and a drink of water!!!
Can’t agree more with this.
I have properly bonked twice as far as I know.
once in a 5 hour ridiculously hard half ironman, and after a 13 mile fell run and in the last 2 miles on a flat road after going over 2 massive peaks I was in 3rd and comfortable. My brain suddenly told me I needed to walk. It was the worse feeling ever, people passing me telling me only 2 miles left, but I just couldn’t do anything. Eventually 2 gels from kind strangers got me to the finish in 15th.
We’ll usually not straight away
But if the missus wants to I’m right to go after a shower and a drink of water!!!
And I though I was the only one who read the title that way 
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