Start with your primary care physician. Tell him/her everything. If he/she can't help you, a referral to a specialist of some sort will be in order.
A little update.... So I made some changes and started making sure I am getting more carbs a few hours before I workout and that has seemed to help. Also, I have noticed there is a major relationship between my sleep and how I feel when I workout. If I don't sleep that much and try to workout then I feel like garbage. If I sleep right and workout then I feel pretty good. Also, I realized I was probably pushing myself a little too hard when I was working out. I have enough free time where I can do 2 shorter sessions at the gym in a day and that has really helped out a ton. It's much nicer feeling good after a workout rather than hating everything and feeling completely dead. Thanks for all the advice guys.
I use to yawn a lot lifting. I think its a body response to anaerobic exercise since your body uses oxygen to drive the energy harnessing process from all your carbs. I take a herbal supplement that increases my blood volume i believe by vasodialation (dont quote me just guessing). I have tried energy pills but i hate it when my heart rate is irregular and intense when im not even doing anything. my suggestion is find something that gives you some added energy that you can be comfortable with. I use a green tea extract with bitter orange and germanium extracts.
High energy food like peanut butter and bananas are good before a work out... also doing it consistently so your body is prepared.... also try taking some b12 before hand to get your blood flowin.... oh and last but not least try adding some cardio to your routine. Cardio on a regular basis gets your body into the routine of preparing energy for use. The less you move, the less your body will prepare for it in the future.
Have yourself tested for what vitamins and minerals your body is lacking. I was feeling similar to you and I was very low in B12 causing other issues as well.
Good stuff - sleep is the most important thing here. Also, don't lift while hungover. I wake up at 4:45A during the week - so there are times when I feel like death while lifting after work. This is why I usually don't lift on Mondays. The more sleep you get, the more energy you'll have.
BUMP I was having many of the same issues that Robbie380 talked about. So much so that I had stopped working out since last summer. Now, I'm back at it and some issues remain, but the yawning has stopped as I put much more effort into breathing right and working out only on days that I've had enough sleep. I found that I had to get myself into decent cardiovascular condition (I've been biking to school/work in the mornings and now I follow it with gym workout) before I could start a proper weight training regiment. Robbie380, how has it worked out for you? My main problem now is that after lifting for about 30 minutes (plus breaks), my arms are shot and I'm forced to move to chick weights, which in turn is demoralizing. I don't feel like the initial weights I choose are even that heavy that this should happen. Is this just normal functioning for a weak beginner? I'm 26 but am built like a 5th grader. The second problem is that it makes me feel dead after lifting, and I need a nap of about 45-60 mins to get back to normal functioning. Do I just need to eat more quantity of food? At the moment, I eat enough to feel satisfied and never reach the overeat status where I feel bloated and have to loosen the pants. I just can't work in the office if I'm in the bloated stage. Should I be eating more? This happens even if i haven't biked to the gym. All the old posts in this thread have been extremely helpful so belated thanks!
A 30 minute arm workout to failure is a good workout. Proper form regardless of weight is VASTLY more helpful than lots of weight and terrible form. Even if you can only do 1 lb correctly, keep working on it and keep pushing yourself to failure, and over time you increase when you feel the weight you are at is easy. From my own experience 45 minutes @ full intensity in the gym and 4 or so days/week (10 of those minutes being HIIT) is a lot more beneficial than 2 hour sessions where I get bored and I don't feel like I'm helping myself when I'm exhausted and just going to make it more time there.
Thanks for a quick reply. That's good, helps to hear it from someone else. That's exactly what I'm trying to do with the full weight or chick weight: keep technique as correct as possible and not favor a stronger arm or anything like that. Tomorrow morning (Monday), I'm planning to eat oatmeal and milk before biking over, and follow the gym workout with some energy bars to see if it's just food and calories that'll keep me awake afterwards.
not at all. If anything, I feel better working out in the morning and I feel less tired throughout the day.
So I started doing jiujitsu on a regular basis and I haven't really lifted too much. Brazilian jiujitsu is a pretty strenuous workout and I've certainly seen strength gains as I've been doing it. Since I've been doing it I learned to chug down a whey protein and ovaltine mixture an hour or more before I work out. It was just easy quick nutrition/calories to put in my system and it helped me out a lot. Also, I still have horrible sleeping habits, but I try to take a nap before I go to my jiujitsu classes if I haven't slept well. That makes a huge difference too even if it's only 15 minutes. Other than that just keep slowly adding on more and more rather than just throwing yourself into the deep end with the weight training. You don't need to do an insane amount of weight lifting to start getting stronger. 30 minutes is probably fine. Also, always try to switch up your workouts between longer, lighter sets and shorter, heavier sets. Boredom was the thing that always ended killing any urge to weight train. If you can do a little extra push ups or pull ups at home when your body is recovered then throw those in. BTW pull ups and push ups are great exercises. Even if you have to jump to get yourself to do one pull up just start doing them. Try to build yourself up to where you can do 10 pull ups and you will see some great changes. That's about all I can think of off the top of my head. I'll add more if I think of more. ....Oh and I don't really have those yawning/being completely dead and sleepy problems anymore.
How much do you go to gym and what to do you other than resistance training? When I first started gym, I used to work out 6 days a week and 1 days rest. Hit all the body parts such as shoulders.. back.. etc. But that was wearing me out and I was making no progress after the beginner gains started to wear off. I was lethargic around school and work and generally felt tired. So I fixed up my routine to 3 days. A push day, a pull day and a squats day. I'm still hitting all my body parts and using ONLY compound movements. I decreased my reps and increased my weight (never more than 5 reps). Push day comprised of either dumbbell press, bench press, overhead press or weighted(2 exercises). dips. Pull day comprised of deadlifts and either pull ups or dumbbell rows. Squat day was either front squat or backsquat. I feel better in general now with half days on/half days off. On days off I'll either play basketball or go for a walk to get my heart racing and blood flowing. My diet still isn't tweaked to perfection like my exercise regime(well, perfect for me anyway). I still eat plenty of sugar, carbs and fats and I'm at weight maintenance so it's not really an issue (6'1, 185). If I was carrying a bit of extra weight though, I'd probably try shed a few pounds by adjusting the diet. That may be effecting how you feel as well. So just from my experience, what I can point out is this: REST BETWEEN WORKOUTS. I'm not just talking about how frequently you lift, what you do outside matters the most. If your line of work involves strenuous activity, I'd cut down the cardio as well. Get adequate sleep every day. If you don't feel like going to the gym, DON'T GO. When you get there, you'll probably just waste your time anyway. Prepare yourself to go the next day and meet your goals for that specific day.
