I had to shift my workouts to the evenings lately and am usually working out from 8:30 to 9 (typically only 3 times/week). I take a cold shower afterwards and go to bed around 10. I have no problems falling asleep and sleep my usual ~8 hours. Every single time, I’m extremely tired the next day. I do…

I do most of my trainer work in the evening. I like to do it as early as possible so my brain can mentally wind down before going to bed. It seems to work for me.

I do workouts in the morning… I’m fading mid day. I do workouts after work and I’m tired the next morning. Either way I’m tired. Don’t think there’s anything you can really do about it.

I’m on a similar schedule and IME tweaking my nutrition had a big positive effect on how I felt the next morning. Given you’re not eating for 8+ hours after a workout which already poses a few challenges to recovery, it’s easy to wake up pretty glycogen depleted which always feels a bit ‘meh.’ (Stre…

Fatigue is part of training-see Coggan CP model depending on training stress. Maybe the 3 workouts are too little or too hard and a more even distribution is better? When the rest week is on, I’m especially tired too. Try power naps.

Thanks! This sounds like a good idea. My approach has been “it’s only 30 min, how much food could I need”. I’ll try changing that

They’re 3 30min workouts, most of them not sprints. I had to scale down from 3.5h /week for time reasons. Doing those 3.5h in the morning didn’t result in any significant tiredness

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lucasberk July 17, 2022, 2:34am 4

I used to work out right after getting up and didn’t have any issues. If anything I had now energy on workout days.
Guess I’ll just have to stick it up and live with it…

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