Training help

How about postponing your workout?

JamesTheAmateur wrote:

Partly it was overestimating my fitness and part of it was from getting like two hours of sleep the night before, so I went in super fatigued.

Why post if you are gonna answer your own question?

I could have, but then all four of my runs would be in a row and I didn't want to do that

Because my question is about my glutes being tired. I get why the workout beat me down. I've just never experienced glute fatigue during a workout, no matter how tired I've been going into before so I wondering why that is

It is possible your previous work does not quite have you ready for this kind of workout. Or it is possible your target pace is too fast. Or it is possible that the bad night of sleep just didn't give you enough recovery, but your current level of fitness allowed you to push through that and somewhat destroy your glutes (temporarily, I would hope).

My glutes definitely feel worked over after hard days or long hilly days. But they also recover pretty fast. If you are still feeling wrecked a few days out you probably over did it.

Even though the other posters were a little snippy, I do think pushing the workout back, or skipping it altogether, would have been wise. Training plans are awesome, but you can't be a slave to them. Most people who do well on a plan get to the end and say they did about 90 percent of it. So be flexible. And if you do push it in a workout again, but you're getting the same signs, just cut the last few reps, get a nice cool down in and start recovering.

JamesTheAmateur wrote:

I could have, but then all four of my runs would be in a row and I didn't want to do that

Risking an injury is counter productive

Use your brain. If your workout is too hard then slow it down or postpone it. If you can't run "all four days in a row" then postpone some other runs. Your problems can all be solved with a little common sense.

Daniels can't be followed by most people - it's too much quality.

They feel fine today. I was just surprised because I took two days off before beforehand. I think the pace was too fast, but I was definitely actually physically tired going in and/or getting sick.

I know I shouldn't be a slave in theory, but in practice I'm bad about skipping workouts. Especially since I was so inconsistent for years, I'm afraid skipping one will start a bad trend. But I'll definitely work on being more flexible

Speaker of Hard Truths (the real 1) wrote:

Use your brain. If your workout is too hard then slow it down or postpone it. If you can't run "all four days in a row" then postpone some other runs. Your problems can all be solved with a little common sense.

I did ultimately slow it down a bit, and partly died too. But I do admittedly have a problem with skipping workouts

I didn't have an issue with overuse in the past six weeks of phase 2. I think I was just surprised how difficult the step from reps to intervals is

What's with all the hobbyjogger threads lately? They just keep coming.