Exhaustion...

I recently re-learned the importance of sleeping!! See..a backstory to my work life. For almost a year now, I've been working the graveyard shift, 8pm - 4:30am. Because of that, I joined Planet Fitness, a 24 hour gym. Great idea, right?! I worked out a couple of times before going to work, o after. Unfortunately, as the months went by, I started to skip on my workouts, and slack off, until I literally just went to the gym like once a month. Wait, I got a little bit off track. Point is, I used to work the graveyard shift, yeah. Recently, I got bumped to a "normal people" shift, starting at 6am. On my night off, between my overnight shift and my new 6am shift, I decided to workout it with my BJJ and Coastie friends. We did cardio and core, and later we went to out BJJ practice. Btw, if my Polar watch is correct, we burned almost 500 calories in an hour's worth of exercise. That was the pre-BJJ workout. I don't wear my watch for BJJ.

I felt fine afterwords. Everything was burning (no pain, no gain, right?), and I even figured that I was tired early enough to go to bed and start my 6am shift well rested.

WRONG!

Since my sleeping pattern is still in graveyard shift mode, I couldn't go to sleep until 3am, only to wake up at 4:30am. And go to work.

That first day working at 6am wasn't too bad. I just felt tired. I got a little dizzy at the beginning of my shift. That was about it. So I still worked out that night. The next day was hell. I was gonna go train again with my friends, but I just couldn't bare to even stand on my own. I was weak, dizzy, walking all "drunken" like. I even cried after work cause I was just so damn tired. I was even falling asleep on the road. As soon as I got home, I decided I needed to go to bed.......at 7pm. Slept like a friggin' baby, until 4:30am!

Long story short, don't overkill yourself with your workouts. I'm so desperate to get back into the shape I was a couple of years ago, that I was skipping on my sleep. My own body kinda just shut down. It's also been on a lethargic stint, that it couldn't handle two back to back workouts like it used to. I'll be able to get back to that point. I'm starting right, again...

Oh, btw, here are some nice pics from the USCG here in Old San Juan. I loved training there!