Seems as though I can have a hard run or bike and feel reasonably fine the next day. However, when I swim like I did last night (45 min, not too hard), I’m feeling exhausted and foggy the next day. Anyone experience anything like this? All I want to do is go home and sleep, but I got 8 hours of sleep last night.
Yep, I find that swimming hard seems to hit me harder than biking or running.
Dave
On the edge to buy that Halo swim trainer, what’s the verdict?
I now use every night. Is it perfect, no dry water trainer is. Some like the others. Halo is simple, cheap, well made. When folks talked, they all seemed to recommend this. Now, talking to craig, if you get one, and dont like it, sounds like it could be return.
Dave
Do you eat after you swim?
jaretj
Could be a lot of things.
Lack of swim fitness
Lack of recovery fuel, undestimate the calories you burn and are not replenishing properly
Poor form leading to extra fatigue
All of the above. I am not a great swimmer, but I was pretty easily able to do a late night long swim and back it up with an early morning mid-distance swim today and I feel fine. My training partner on the other hand gets abused by swim sessions, gets mad and then punishes me on the run.
I’ve been swimming a good bit more than usual lately and found that slowing down and swimming easy has helped me. I am just using it to help work on technique and build an aerobic base so going easy works for me. I am doing a 1650 in about 32:00, usually doing a 30:00 continuous swim. I’ve been alternating one day with fins, one day without. Feels good.
I have a decent swim fitness, not great, but I was doing about 20,000 meters a month over the summer. Doing 1500-2000 meters a night even at an easy pace beats the hell out of me apparently. I normally don’t eat too much afterwards because lap swimming is only open after dinner, so it’s normally to the pool and then a light snack before bed. Could it be that I’m exerting myself a lot more than I think I am in the pool? My HR never gets too high but maybe the full body workout coupled with holding your breath for 5 seconds the whole time is what wears me out more than cycling or running.
i too swim after work and dont have time to have a decent meal afterwards and like you, felt tired also but everything changed when i ate dinner at 4 then after my swim at 8:00.(we swim normally from 6:30-8:00, roughly around 3.5-4k) i just drink a glass of non-fat milk and a pc of wheat bread with p & b. i wake up around 3:30am the run at 4:30am…