Do you ever feel 'flat'
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Morning all
I go running ~4times a week. Last year I was up to about 25ish miles a week however this plummeted due to me being ill for Q1 this year.
I'm now building back up by doing a couple of miles 4 times a week. Sometimes I do more as I feel great and can do double/triple that.
However I went running last night and it was a real pain in the arse, like I was running through treacle.
Does anyone have this? Is there anyway to minimise it?
Thanks
I go running ~4times a week. Last year I was up to about 25ish miles a week however this plummeted due to me being ill for Q1 this year.
I'm now building back up by doing a couple of miles 4 times a week. Sometimes I do more as I feel great and can do double/triple that.
However I went running last night and it was a real pain in the arse, like I was running through treacle.
Does anyone have this? Is there anyway to minimise it?
Thanks
k off It's funny I was going to start a thread on exactly the same topic. Sometimes when I go running or get on the C2 or do weights or whatever the legs feel really heavy and I have no energy.
I guess the human body is just that and as such you're bound to have off days.
Probably age as well
I guess the human body is just that and as such you're bound to have off days.
Probably age as well
Some of you may have seen my diet thread. At the moment I am on a massive health kick.
In four days I have been for 3 runs. These are the first three runs of my running career- I have never really run before, and so i'm nowhere near as experienced as the OP.
However after two great runs which increased in pace and distance, today was awful. After just 2km I had got a stitch (I normally run before breakfast, so that cant be down to food or drink), and I just felt like crap after around 500 meters. Managed to push through to 5km, but I guess sometimes you're really up for it, and sometimes you're not.
In four days I have been for 3 runs. These are the first three runs of my running career- I have never really run before, and so i'm nowhere near as experienced as the OP.
However after two great runs which increased in pace and distance, today was awful. After just 2km I had got a stitch (I normally run before breakfast, so that cant be down to food or drink), and I just felt like crap after around 500 meters. Managed to push through to 5km, but I guess sometimes you're really up for it, and sometimes you're not.
extraT said:
Some of you may have seen my diet thread. At the moment I am on a massive health kick.
In four days I have been for 3 runs. These are the first three runs of my running career- I have never really run before, and so i'm nowhere near as experienced as the OP.
However after two great runs which increased in pace and distance, today was awful. After just 2km I had got a stitch (I normally run before breakfast, so that cant be down to food or drink), and I just felt like crap after around 500 meters. Managed to push through to 5km, but I guess sometimes you're really up for it, and sometimes you're not.
Not seen it, but I'll have a read. I can never run in the morning, just not my thing.In four days I have been for 3 runs. These are the first three runs of my running career- I have never really run before, and so i'm nowhere near as experienced as the OP.
However after two great runs which increased in pace and distance, today was awful. After just 2km I had got a stitch (I normally run before breakfast, so that cant be down to food or drink), and I just felt like crap after around 500 meters. Managed to push through to 5km, but I guess sometimes you're really up for it, and sometimes you're not.
I usually go out in the evening, just feels 'nicer' if you get me.
Is it perhaps due to not being warmed up properly?
I'm no expert btw, but tend to find that when I cycle the first couple of miles can be hard work until I'm warmed up, particularly if I've ridden a few times that week already.
Once the first couple of miles are out of the way, lungs and legs just seem to loosen up and I'm away.
Maybe not enough rest time between exercise, you know yourself when your legs feel heavy before you've even started
I'm no expert btw, but tend to find that when I cycle the first couple of miles can be hard work until I'm warmed up, particularly if I've ridden a few times that week already.
Once the first couple of miles are out of the way, lungs and legs just seem to loosen up and I'm away.
Maybe not enough rest time between exercise, you know yourself when your legs feel heavy before you've even started
Sometimes you just have an off-day. The secret is to know that almost inevitably happens and to not let it get the better of your morale.
There's so many hormones involved in exercise (epinephrine, norepinephrine, glucagon, insulin, cortisol, aldosterone, thyroxine, growth hormone, estrogen, and testosterone, insulin, growth hormone, dopamine, endorphones... no name only a few), pre/post and during. It only takes one to be out affecting your homeostatis and it will really screw up your performance.
It's also possible that your circadian rythm may have adjusted in your time off. You could try running at a different time of the day.
There's so many hormones involved in exercise (epinephrine, norepinephrine, glucagon, insulin, cortisol, aldosterone, thyroxine, growth hormone, estrogen, and testosterone, insulin, growth hormone, dopamine, endorphones... no name only a few), pre/post and during. It only takes one to be out affecting your homeostatis and it will really screw up your performance.
It's also possible that your circadian rythm may have adjusted in your time off. You could try running at a different time of the day.
Hoofy said:
Eat well, drink well, sleep well. I'd look at those aspects of your life first.
Spot on IMO. Sometimes we like to over-complicate these simple things.We're designed/built to run pretty much daily. Good food and rest is all that is required for fun runners. Clearly different if you're an elite athlete or marathoner but for most of us here, eat and rest.
PS I wouldn't bother faffing about with water bottles or energy drinks for short runs less than 10kms - it just makes you look a little ridiculous. Like the fat joggers are going to die of dehydration in half an hour. Too much is made of this recently - I suspect excess water sloshing about in your gut is more likely to be an issue than a lack of it. IMO.
OP - Somehting worth looking at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circadian_rhythm
I'm doing a study on timings for performance at the moment with a rugby team, they are completing the Multi Stage Fitness Test at 0800/1300 and 1800, from this i'm hoping to find the "best performance time" for them in general, i've always been an early riser for cardio (although ran at lunchtime today) and strength/X-Fit on an evening (just finished weights 1/2 hour ago), but thats my routine.
The say as core body temp increase so does performance, but there is a study saying that 20minutes on a general warm up will increase body temp enough to nearly gain the same optimal performance, but the perofrmance tests are all different, vertical jump test, windgate test, swimming performance, anerobic power, but generally 1400 onwards up until 2000 are the "best times" to train, 1800 being when the majority of world records have been set.
There's timings for which testosterone is at its highest in the body blah blah, but something I wish i'd have thought about years ago.
But in answer to your post I sometimes feel flat but I read once in a magazine "better to do something than nothing at all" and even when I feel flat i'll just crack something, even if its 20 minutes on the rower.
Last bit before I bore you to death, i'll be on mountain bike knackered and could swear I had a punture or i'm in mud as my legs are lactic and I look at my back tyre, its fully inflated and there is no mud, i'll have a sly chuckle to myself but keep plodding on - as I bet you do with your running.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circadian_rhythm
I'm doing a study on timings for performance at the moment with a rugby team, they are completing the Multi Stage Fitness Test at 0800/1300 and 1800, from this i'm hoping to find the "best performance time" for them in general, i've always been an early riser for cardio (although ran at lunchtime today) and strength/X-Fit on an evening (just finished weights 1/2 hour ago), but thats my routine.
The say as core body temp increase so does performance, but there is a study saying that 20minutes on a general warm up will increase body temp enough to nearly gain the same optimal performance, but the perofrmance tests are all different, vertical jump test, windgate test, swimming performance, anerobic power, but generally 1400 onwards up until 2000 are the "best times" to train, 1800 being when the majority of world records have been set.
There's timings for which testosterone is at its highest in the body blah blah, but something I wish i'd have thought about years ago.
But in answer to your post I sometimes feel flat but I read once in a magazine "better to do something than nothing at all" and even when I feel flat i'll just crack something, even if its 20 minutes on the rower.
Last bit before I bore you to death, i'll be on mountain bike knackered and could swear I had a punture or i'm in mud as my legs are lactic and I look at my back tyre, its fully inflated and there is no mud, i'll have a sly chuckle to myself but keep plodding on - as I bet you do with your running.
LordGrover said:
Hoofy said:
Eat well, drink well, sleep well. I'd look at those aspects of your life first.
Spot on IMO. Sometimes we like to over-complicate these simple things.We're designed/built to run pretty much daily. Good food and rest is all that is required for fun runners. Clearly different if you're an elite athlete or marathoner but for most of us here, eat and rest.
PS I wouldn't bother faffing about with water bottles or energy drinks for short runs less than 10kms - it just makes you look a little ridiculous. Like the fat joggers are going to die of dehydration in half an hour. Too much is made of this recently - I suspect excess water sloshing about in your gut is more likely to be an issue than a lack of it. IMO.
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