If I do hard intervals in the morning I am absolutely cooked for the rest of the day. Can’t focus at work, feel like someone just woke me up at 3 am to go to the airport. How do I avoid the mental fatigue? Better refueling? More sodium / hydration?
If I do hard intervals in the morning I am absolutely cooked for the rest of the day. Can’t focus at work, feel like someone just woke me up at 3 am to go to the airport. How do I avoid the mental fatigue? Better refueling? More sodium / hydration?
do easier workouts
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do easier workouts
This. If you're overcooking it, turn down the heat!
There’s a reason no pros have real jobs
Do your hard workout in the afternoon / evening?
Cold shower , amino acids, nofap
Thats why I run after work.
"Cooked" can be a lot of things, but in my experience it tends to be glycogen depletion or CNS (central nervous system) fatigue. If you're doing long, steady stuff and only feeling tired after workouts, it's probably glycogen depletion, for a large part, so you just need some sugar.
If that's not the case, and especially if you're doing short, fast stuff, it's probably mostly CNS fatigue. As far as I know, there's no way to bounce back faster from CNS fatigue. You don't have to train to that point to get results, so I'd probably just back off a bit.
Another solution to would be to move to a 9-day or 10-day cycle so that you always get 2 easy days after a hard workout. Unless you're racing every workout, the fatigue you're feeling isn't just about that workout but instead about that workout in the context of your other training.