For the last few years I have suffered from extreme mental and physical fatigue. I notice it most when I am playing basketball or doing something that involves standing for long periods of time (like shopping with the wife). I’m 31 now have and have been weight training for the past 12 years. I am also a PE teacher and work for an afterschool program so I am usually on my feet for 9-10 hours at work. I’ve done some reading and the main thing that stuck out was adrenalin depletion because I have exercises regularly for the past 12 years and in my younger days (am I old enough to say that yet ) consumed lots of energy drinks prior to exercising. The best way of describing this is fatigue is feeling spaced out and weak. I normally can continue the activity but not at 100%. Over the summer I competed in mountain biking but I rarely noticed this fatigue. I have tried to cut back on my coffee and sweets to keep my caffeine dependency and blood sugar in check.
Extreme mental and physical fatigue
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My diets decent, I'll give you a normal day and I probably average 7 hours of sleep per night.
Diet;
Breakfast, Instant oatmeal, 2 eggs and 1 egg white, apple cup of coffee
Pre-workout, myoplex RTD
Post-workout, protein shake with water and a banana, coffee or tea
Lunch, healthy choice grilled chicken marinara steamer
between school and the after school program campbells mexican chicken soup
Dinner, hamburger on whole wheat or pita bun, baked sweet potato fries.
Before bed, glass of milk and some natural peanut butter.
My biggest downfall has been sweats but I am going to cut those back or out completely and trim some weight for bike season.
I hate to be captain obvious here, but the only reason for fatigue is not enough rest.
Take a break or break.
Staying up for 9-10 hours at a time, weight training for 12 years and some talk of preparing to cut back for biking season and you say you get 7 hours of sleep per night and you have a ridiculously low amount of intake for all that.
Second PE teacher who comes up with this kind of problem - what's going on.
PE stand for physical education right?
Glycogen/glucose depletion. Energy drinks provide simple carbs - eat complex carbs one hour prior to your workouts and it should help, also try 9 hours of sleep and take a god damn vacation already. Ugh. You can sip diluted energy drinks while you workout to help with glucose stores.
Talk to a doctor.
Talk to a nutritionist.
Hire a PT.
Take a break or break.
Staying up for 9-10 hours at a time, weight training for 12 years and some talk of preparing to cut back for biking season and you say you get 7 hours of sleep per night and you have a ridiculously low amount of intake for all that.
Second PE teacher who comes up with this kind of problem - what's going on.
PE stand for physical education right?
Glycogen/glucose depletion. Energy drinks provide simple carbs - eat complex carbs one hour prior to your workouts and it should help, also try 9 hours of sleep and take a god damn vacation already. Ugh. You can sip diluted energy drinks while you workout to help with glucose stores.
Talk to a doctor.
Talk to a nutritionist.
Hire a PT.
I think I may have given too much info for my question. I’ll try to clear it up at the end of the post.
I’m not talking about being tired or “worn out” this is a feeling that comes on suddenly and almost always when I am playing basketball or shopping (I know that sounds funny but that’s when it happens). This has been going on for quite some time even before my full time job kids or marriage. The thing that I don’t understand is that I can ride my mountain bike all day without issues. I originally thought it was from dehydration or from consuming too much caffeine but cutting coffee out completely doesn’t seem to help. When I was substitute teaching I slept at least 8 hours every night and even took naps after my workouts and still would get this feeling in situations such as basketball or shopping.
To better describe the feeling its almost like I am intoxicated (though I don’t drink and caffeine is my only drug). It’s like being tired X100
I don’t mind you being captain obvious sometimes the obvious solution is the hardest one to see. I should add however that I take a week off about every two months.
My portion sizes are fairly large and I usually take in at least 3000 calories per day. I also failed to mention small snacks such as nuts fruits’ and of course some junk food.
I hate asking these kinds of questions because PE teachers seem to get a pretty bad rap. I know my stuff but this one seems like a pretty rare problem. I’m guessing it has something to do with my years of ephedrine use while I was training heavily in college. I would assume that there are others on here who also have used similar supplements when they were legal.
I have in the past but doctors can’t seem to find anything. This is what led me to the adrenal depletion because it seems pretty difficult to identify.
I’m not talking about being tired or “worn out” this is a feeling that comes on suddenly and almost always when I am playing basketball or shopping (I know that sounds funny but that’s when it happens). This has been going on for quite some time even before my full time job kids or marriage. The thing that I don’t understand is that I can ride my mountain bike all day without issues. I originally thought it was from dehydration or from consuming too much caffeine but cutting coffee out completely doesn’t seem to help. When I was substitute teaching I slept at least 8 hours every night and even took naps after my workouts and still would get this feeling in situations such as basketball or shopping.
To better describe the feeling its almost like I am intoxicated (though I don’t drink and caffeine is my only drug). It’s like being tired X100
Like everyone, as you move through life, your life gets more complicated which places more demands on your mind and body. Kids, jobs, mortgages, etc.
Life is about finding the right balance for you at any point in time. Your feelings of fatigue - a sudden weakness that passes when you will yourself to continue is your body's way of telling you it thinks your balance is out. You can override the body (& sometimes that's a good thing) but you live a healthy but busy lifestyle so maybe you need to reconsider your balance of effort.
If you ignore your body you may suffer from 'burn out'. Burn out doesn't happen overnight - it takes years of ignoring the signals. Burnout is when your adrenal glands, which you have been living on without knowing it and over working, give up and when you try to override the body's exhaustion (that feeling of beeing tired x100) you have nothing and you have no choice but to rest.
The medics can't help you with this until it turns into something extreme because nothing is wrong - yet. And if you burnout your adrenals they can't do anything other than tell you to rest (for a a few years!).
I would recommend you look at your life as a whole and rebalance the exercise, rest, relaxation and stressful activities.
Life is about finding the right balance for you at any point in time. Your feelings of fatigue - a sudden weakness that passes when you will yourself to continue is your body's way of telling you it thinks your balance is out. You can override the body (& sometimes that's a good thing) but you live a healthy but busy lifestyle so maybe you need to reconsider your balance of effort.
If you ignore your body you may suffer from 'burn out'. Burn out doesn't happen overnight - it takes years of ignoring the signals. Burnout is when your adrenal glands, which you have been living on without knowing it and over working, give up and when you try to override the body's exhaustion (that feeling of beeing tired x100) you have nothing and you have no choice but to rest.
The medics can't help you with this until it turns into something extreme because nothing is wrong - yet. And if you burnout your adrenals they can't do anything other than tell you to rest (for a a few years!).
I would recommend you look at your life as a whole and rebalance the exercise, rest, relaxation and stressful activities.
This is kind of what I have been thinking all along. I've read about adrenal deficiency and was just wandering if anyone else has experienced similar issues. The years of effedera (can't remember the correct spelling off hand) induced training during college didn't help. Thanks for the input and info
extreme fatigue
You may be overtraining. This is almost as damaging and under training. It causes severe wear and tear on the body. If the body doesnot have time to recover it will not lose weight, and will always stay in a constant state of stress and over sympathetic activation. A great program to help monitro exercise fatigue and stress levels is the Advanced Wellness Solution Heart Wizard. It has change the way I train and it is very low cost and accurate.
You may be overtraining. This is almost as damaging and under training. It causes severe wear and tear on the body. If the body doesnot have time to recover it will not lose weight, and will always stay in a constant state of stress and over sympathetic activation. A great program to help monitro exercise fatigue and stress levels is the Advanced Wellness Solution Heart Wizard. It has change the way I train and it is very low cost and accurate.
Yes, you might want to trim down on your physical activities and maybe do something which is less straining. Although it is possible for an individual to still be physically fit as we grow older, there are still certain limits we need to set. Re-assess everything and set-up a whole new different exercise workout for you, especially on your food intake and relaxation.