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Post by r0b1et on May 19, 2015 9:37:14 GMT
So I'm pretty sure I suffered it PROPERLY at the end of last week. I'd done a LOT over the previous (checks strava) 6 weeks, and even my rest days (2 a week) weren't proper rest days, just days off the bike (like driving 300 miles, or going for a long walk with the kids [so carrying a 3.5 year old for 3 miles!]). Then I just fell apart. Thursday I felt cold all day, and just a bit crap, not very specific, but physically cold and rubbish. Friday I woke up in cold sweats, and they carried on, my stomach also felt like it had been punched. Getting up made me dizzy. I had the day off work feeling rotten - I assumed at the time I just had a bug. But I took my temperature (when I had to get down the stairs) and no fever, HR through the roof and still cold sweats. And I was getting dehydrated from the cold sweats - yet oddly my body didn't want water, for a while the idea of water made me feel sick.
Saturday afternoon I was feeling largely better, ad kept taking it easy on Sunday. Yesterday all back to normal, decent ride etc... then I read something in passing by David Millar who described the symptoms he had from bad overtraining... and mine matched perfectly... cold sweats, bad tum, not sleeping properly, causing dehydration. I guess that's what I had.
So, are there good ways to know it's creeping up? How does one avoid it. It's not like the preceding days I'd been down on power or similar, so I had no warning I recognised. Would be nice to avoid as I felt like death.
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Post by Rocket on May 19, 2015 9:59:05 GMT
My best indication is resting heart rate.
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Post by r0b1et on May 19, 2015 10:21:52 GMT
My best indication is resting heart rate. But does that mean you just measure your resting heart rate everyday? I do on occasion, perhaps I should start doing it more.
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Post by Rocket on May 19, 2015 10:41:31 GMT
I measure mine at various points during the day. Fully rested I get low 40's. After a very hard ride it can be 70+ even 24 hours later. I will have days off until its back down to low 50's before the next ride. I do free weights on these off days as they are mainly upper body.
I don't get the physical symptoms that you describe, just a general lack of rocket power and inability to get my heart rate really high when training so you could also consider what your maximum was when training.
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Post by kenny1972 on May 19, 2015 11:02:01 GMT
I use golden cheetah, I have setup custom reports and graphs and it works well for me, sometimes I feel fine before a cycle and my data will say I'm not fully rested and the data is usually right.
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2015 13:07:20 GMT
I try to plan my activities in 4-6 week blocks that build in intensity and distance over that time. After that block I'll have a week of very low activity. I coincide these rest weeks to fall before events or races I've entered.
I don't get overly precious about missing a planned session as I need to be flexible with work and family stuff.
For example, I ran a 1/2 marathon race last weekend and planned a 6 week block of activity with a focus on running to build up to a peak the week before the event. I was using rides and swimming as active recovery sessions. My plans went to crap when I suffered a shin injury 3 weeks ago. I had to stop running so upped my swimming to compensate.
I've entered a triathlon on the 12th of July and have spent this lunchtime planning my activities for the next 6 weeks
I don't follow you on Strava but from the 'who's getting out there' thread you look to be someone who gives it 100% most of the time. Do you much low/lower intensity activities?
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Post by r0b1et on May 20, 2015 10:12:44 GMT
I don't follow you on Strava but from the 'who's getting out there' thread you look to be someone who gives it 100% most of the time. Do you much low/lower intensity activities? I doubt I post half my rides on the forum... and would rarely bother with a slow ride. I tend to do the odd easier paced ride, but possibly not enough - As much because I far prefer to be a social rider, out with friends than on my own. My slower friends are great for a recovery ride (often when they are pushing like mad, I'm having a gentle spin), but they've not been out much in the last few weeks (i.e. when the weather isn't wall to wall sunshine in still air).
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