Exhaustion, Age, Exercise,or Sleep

Exhaustion, Age, Exercise,or Sleep BJoe

I’ve been back in the gym lifting about 5 days a week and an hour at a time for nearly 10 weeks now. I have found that I do get tired, not always rested after waking, and in some cases taking a short nap between getting off work, the having dinner before hitting the gym. Not sure if it’s being utterly out of shape, age (45y/o now), that I’m living late in the evening (approx 9:30pm-11pm) and not crashing as soon as I get home as well as my typical 8am-5pm work shift with 1hr lunch (call center, work from home, still), maybe my sets, or some combination of the above. It’s not always unusual for me to not go get to sleep before 12am, working from home, I typically get up 7:30a-7:45a and go into a different room to work, don’t always each breakfast, but sometimes will have milk to drink for the first couple hours plus iced tea for the caffeine in the morning since I don’t do coffee and cut back my pop drinking. I may crash for 30min or so after work and before dinner then hit the gym after dinner. When living, I’ve been lifting so that I start light for 25 reps, add weight and do 20, then 15, 10 when I near max, and 5 reps at max for example, below is my bent barbell curls from tonight (ate after lifting instead);

Bent Barbell Arm Curl
20x25
30x20
40x15
50x10
60x5

Sleep really depends on me coming straight home then going to bed, then maybe seeing if I stay at 8a-5p or get moved to 9a-6p. I also recently had 3 weeks of working Saturdays that were 8a-1p then had one half day and another that was an hour shorter to make up for it, so I couldn’t easily make up for some of the sleep on those 3 Saturdays. Then when it comes to being mid 40’s and very over weight also brings on it’s own issues. I’m not to sure if the way I’m doing my sets and reps is to blame, or if it’s a combination of the above. Anybody got any suggestions?

https://ift.tt/eA8V8J November 28, 2021 at 10:38AM Bodybuilding.com Forums