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It is something that has gradually appeared the last couple of years that after a moderate physical exercise I experience a mild tiredness, usually appearing the following day and lasting for 1-2 days.
Is this because the body year after year cannot handle the same level of physical activity, is it an effect of stored stress or because a nutrient/vitamin is lacking from the body?
Even though I have cut down the length, the duration and the level of difficulty of jogging, it seems that my body is changing. It is a sort of tiredness and mild stiffness that appears only after hours the activity has stopped, or even the next day, as during the activity itself I feel quite full of energy as usual.
Do I have to monitor the pulse rate during exercise, is there any guideline for not exhausting myself, or a vitamin could resolve the problem?
Finally, I am a bit reluctant to take any supplement as this only means to my opinion that one simply covers the real causes.
I would appreciate your advice.
Best regards
In Reply to: Tiredness after exercise posted by nikolawski on April 14, 2003 at 02:45:45:
I Sense that you might need to detox your body;
One way is a Juice fast, Vegetable juice for 8 days a least; Another way to help assist you is for you to back way off the grains and increase the vegetables and fruit and cut back on the amount of meat protein and do more fish; I feel toxic over load with Carbs; Suppliments would help you and i'm sure others on this board might recommend some, if not i can; Use more breathing in your exercise, breath work would help you; Use the mini trampoline perhaps and blow out on down bounce; You really need more oxygen;
In Reply to: Re: Tiredness after exercise posted by Terri-Lynn on April 14, 2003 at 11:13:24:
Thanks a lot for your reply.
I need more guidance and your help will be appreciated:
1.Vegetable drink: is this something that I can prepare myself at home? And how?
2.supplements: can you recommend something specific or at least a general guideline?
3.more breathing during exercise: how can I do that?
4.more oxygen: is there a way to do that during the day, perhaps at work or while driving?
Finally, in the past I have had occasional insomnia and general tiredness, which I managed to handle to a very high extend through change of diet, reduction of stress and skilled relaxation. Is there a connection between the above and the tiredness after the exercise? Is it perhaps all related?
Thks again for yr help.
Regards
In Reply to: Re: Tiredness after exercise posted by nikolawski on April 15, 2003 at 01:01:24:
Hi Nikolawski,
Now that you've given more information, your fatigue after exercise sounds a lot like mine. I have a long-time deep case of dysautonomia and I believe exhausted adrenals.
How long have you been doing your SR practice, and what changes did you make to your diet?
I've been doing the 3LS for about 11 months and am getting better, slowly. I had to quit doing exercise (except for rebounding and walking) and do full-body stretching, because stretcing reduces the load on the nervous system.
Best wishes,
Happygal
In Reply to: Tiredness after exercise posted by nikolawski on April 14, 2003 at 02:45:45:
Hi, Niko.
How old are you?
Listen to Terri-Lynn and Happygal.
This COULD be a genetic problem with your mitochondria but the physicians (in this country) who know how to check for that can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Even if it were, detox and increasing trace nutrients would be the first things recommended.
Increasing trace nutrients is NOT covering up any increasing need for nutritional support, which happens to ALL of us as we age. The simplest thing you could do would be to try a few months (6 a day) of "Perfect Food" by gardenoflifeusa.com
By the way, you certainly should not be exceeding your target heart rate! Reference, "Aerobics" by Kenneth Cooper, MD.
Walt
In Reply to: Re: Tiredness after exercise posted by Happygal on April 15, 2003 at 03:24:47:
Hi Happygal
I am 35 and I am practising relaxation for 3 months now about 15-20 mins a day of deep breathing.
My initial symptoms were tiredness, occasional insomnia, lightheadedness and strong pulses.
Since last June I changed my diet to exclude refined carbonhydrates, pork meat, sugar, etc.
After I startet SR i found that the strong pulses have moderated considerably but I would like to see them vanishing if possible.
I enjoy sports, espicially jogging and swimming. Swimming seems much more comfortable for my body than jogging.
One last thing. During the last few months and almost daily I dance at home quite vigorously exersizing all sorts of movements regardless of how strange they seem.
I found that I enjoy this exercise quite a lot, besides although this kind of exersice is usually vigorous I do not feel the tiredness I experience after jogging.
I would like to try full body stretching I do not know how.
Besides my body is not that flexible any more, at least compared to my daughters(!) ot to my wife's.
Any advise?
Thanks a lot.
regards
In Reply to: Tiredness after exercise posted by nikolawski on April 14, 2003 at 02:45:45:
taking a suppliment just might lead you to the
cause. I would try a multi vitamin and a multi
mineral. They couldn't hurt and if you DO feel
better you might figure out why.
My guess would be that your circulation is
not as good as it used to be or your kidneys aren't
doing what they used to.
I used to have severe muscle aches from simple
physical activity after a chemical injury and
I would ache for days after. Tried a multi vit and
the aches would cut in half. Then niacin which
helps circulation helped even more. Then I tried
MSM and I was lifting weight, as heavy as I could
lift and Didn't even feel like I did anything at
all.
In Reply to: Re: Tiredness after exercise posted by nikolawski on April 15, 2003 at 06:30:09:
Hi Nikolowski,
If you're 35 and not flexible, it sounds to me like you are bracing -- your entire body's muscles are very tight. Keep going with the relaxation practice. You will get more benefit if you do it twice a day. Read the article "Skilled Relaxation" and the glossary entries for SR and the "relaxation response." Walt gives good advice about how to make the practice very effective and I have found that after 11 months of following his suggestions exactly that my body gets looser and looser.
About stretching, sounds like you are athletic and have probably learned some stretches to do. Start with what you know. Go slowly and stretch every day. After a while you will be looser in some places and the tight places will let you know that they would like to be stretched. You can get just any good stretching book and learn the stretches from it. Remember that stretching should be done slowly and carefully and pain should never happen.
I was really tight from bracing but now after a couple of years of daily stretching and almost a year of twice a day SR, I'm close to being as flexible as I was as a teen. I'm 45.
I do the stretching on my own. Some like to take yoga or a flexibility class. Do what works.
Sounds like you are doing pretty good with diet but read the info on this website to see if there are any more improvements you can make.
Best wishes,
Happygal
In Reply to: Tiredness after exercise posted by nikolawski on April 14, 2003 at 02:45:45:
Accumulated stress from exercise is called "overtraining". Once the body starts to fall behind in getting a proper rest, performance will decrease over time, even if the workouts are moderate. This can happen on both a metabolic level and to the central nervous system.
Rather than perform the same workout, week after week, it might be best to cycle levels of intensity and volume. A classic scheme is to ramp up activity each workout for three weeks, then take an entire week off. Repeat.
In addition, you might examine the number of rest days per week. Rather than 4-6 moderate workouts with 1-3 rest days per week for example, you might try fewer but more rigous workouts.
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