Body weak after weight workout!

intensitylisa

Cathlete
Do any of you have the problem of your whole body feeling weak and tired the next morning after a weight workout?;-) You would think my body would get used to weight work by now. Question for you pros out there: why does my body feel this way after an intense weight workout? Thanks for feedback!:)
 
I don't know that I'm correct in this but my first guess is that you may need more protein in your diet. Try adding a protein bar or shake after your workout.
 
:-( I may not be getting enough protein because I also can't seem to build muscle. Would this be caused by lack of protein? :( I will give the bars or shakes a try. Where can I get these? Thanks!:D
 
While protein is used for repair, eating more protein won't automatically lead to bigger muscles. It's the work you put in and the rest you give your body that helps build muscle. Though it may sound illogical, try decreasing the amount of days you weight train (do each body part twice a week) and go as heavy as you can when you do workout. The day after your workouts, give yourself permission to sleep and extra hour (or take a long nap in the afternoon). When bodybuilders work on building up their muscles, they sometimes go to extremes of doing nothing but working out and resting, and avoiding much cardio at all.
 
:D Thanks for the information! I will cut back on the weight training, and I already go as heavy as I can. I wonder if my body is getting burned out with soo much exercise. I exercise 6 days a week for at least an hour. What do you all think? As I stated, my body today just feels drained. Thanks!:D
 
If you are lifting weights more than 3 or 4 times a week, you probably need to decrease your workouts--depending on the intensity (no pun intended, Lisa lol). If you are doing light circuits, you might be able to get away with more weight workouts in a week but don't stay in that type of rotation for long. If you are lifting heavy, 2 days upper body & 2 days lower body is PLENTY. You might be burning out & headed for an injury if you are doing more than that.

Try reducing the number of weighted workouts you do in a week, you might feel better.
 
Intensity Lisa...
I have been wondering the same thing lately. I think it is in the heavy weight work. I get lots of sleep and eat plenty of protein yet it can take me 4+ days to recover from a hard leg workout. Also, do you tend to work body parts in less than twice per week. I notice more soreness when I go with each bodypart once per week heavy.

I think many of us underestimate the muscle involvement of a Cathe cardio workout....especially lower body. The plyometric moves in Imax for example can work your muscles the same as heavy weights. Too many intense workouts per week and I think that is why you feel it! My "lower" intensity days include Powerstrike, which, when you think about it is not lower intesity at all.

Except now I am struggling with this more since i am trying for some days with twice a day workouts. Uggghhh. I have heard that loading up on Vitamin C and Vitamin E can help post soreness. Never really tried it though to tell you the truth. Maybe do some looking on the internet..you can find some good stuff.
I know that feeling well though...where soreness is so bad you almost feel ill. Most days, atleast 2 parts of my body are pretty sore. I have just learned to live like that. Sometimes when I take a week off I feel like God gave me a whole new body. Really. Sad, huh??:):)

Janice
 
:D You gals are just too funny! Most of the time I probably do live up to my name of INTENSITY LISA! I think my body can only take so much after working 8 hours a day (sitting on my duff)and then doing Cathe's INTENSE workouts every night. This has become such a way of life for me that if I do not workout I feel guilty. Plus I am pushing 40, so my body is not as young (though it looks the same as when I was young) Does anyone else feel the same way?;)
 

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