Does anybody have any experience with being tired and sleepy all the time?
I lift weights 5 days a week, have a clean diet [6 meals a day, clean carbs], and get 8 hours of sleep every night. Supplements I take are aminos, glutamine, creatine, and a multivitamin. I don't drink caffeine late in the evening. Don't smoke or drink or any of that at all. But I seem to be tired all the time. Extremely tired at times to where I will leave work and crash for a 30 minute or 45 nap.
Any ideas on what may be causing this or any suggestions?
I have recently taken a week off. Actually, I try to take one off every 6-8 weeks, to avoid overtraining. What do I need to do to get checked for sleep apnia? Just see the doc?
A friend of mine has very similar issues. He trains bjj three times a week and runs/lifts the other 3 days [Sundays off]. He went to the doctor to get some blood work done and when the results came back in, the doctor told him it was dehydration. But he drinks 1-2 gallons of water a day! The doc told him to get retested...
As far as the caffeine goes, usually none after 5 or 6. Bedtime is usually 9.
I do try a lot of times to sleep more than 8 hours. I usually get between 8-9, sometimes more, but never any less. Someone suggested to me that it may be too much, but I agree with you, 4 ranges. Lifting is always pretty heavy, so I need to sleep to recover/grow...
my question was "how much caffeine before 5 or 6"...
i.e., none after 5 is good, but a lot before 5 will still drain your adrenals. So there's a thought. (There are things to do about this, but not being a doctor I sort of hate to start making recommendations that may or may not help. And this is quite likely not your issue at all, like I said, but thought I'd ask!)
Of course you might need more sleep, or you might havve massive stress we don't know about....
Ali, its not really very much. I drink at least a gallon of water throughout the day, so it is mixed in usuallly. I will just drink a Diet Coke with my 5:00 meal, thats it...
As far as stress, there is not a whole lot. I am a server admin at work, so it is not usually high stress. I'm thinking that the doc is the way to go, but figured that you guys may have simliar experience...
I usually don't feel that much better when I take a week off. Somewhat lethargic, actually. I definitely use an alarm clock. Two of them, just in case...
As far as overtraining goes, I train one bodypart per day. No more bjj or muay thai. Only weights...
bry bry- i agree, it is very frustrating. thanks for the empathy...
4 ranges- i guess that's always a possibility, but i take a multivitamin supplement and eat clean. i asked on another post about zma, because i have heard great things about it and that it could help out...
toddseney- in the past few months, i have upped my calories to about 3500 a day. trying to gain mass, i have slowly increased and now that is where i am. they all come from clean foods over 7 meals...
i think that ultimately the doc is the way to go. i have been reading a lot and there is something called "chronic fatigue syndrome" that sounds a lot like what i am dealing with. i guess this is a possibility, but i will have to get diagnosed...