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Make sure you are taking a GOOD multivitamin….. centrum and one-a-day don'r cut it.

Some vitamin B12 should really help you out a bunch.  It's known as the energy vitamin.

I eat the same on workout and non workout days.  Juice and 1/2 a banana 1/2 hour before my workout.  Greek yogurt with a fiber cereal  or oatmeal with fruit or natural peanut butter after.

I have one or two snacks before lunch.  These are usually nuts, fruit or a fiber bar.  I eat a sandwich or leftovers for lunch.  Often it is a peanut butter or tuna salad made with hummus. 

An afternoon snack of fruit or cottage cheese. 

Dinner is whole wheat pasta once a week a couple of leftovers from what ever I made over the weekend (chicken, beef or pork).  I try to supplement leftovers so I get 6 servings of vegetables a week.  On some days dinned is a salad with sardines on toast.

I eat out once or twice a week and try to make good choices.

I eat almost no sweets because I save my calories for beer.

After writing this down I think more vegetable would help. 

I'm forty-five, and I too feel somewhat sluggish on workout days, especially leg day, but I noticed something else too.  I applied for life insurance, so a nurse came over one day recently after I had an unusually physical day at work and took my blood pressure.  I had been lifting 60 lbs from my waist to my shoulder level all day long and then had a 40 min. drive home.  My blood pressure was 104/61.  The nurse asked me if that was normal for me, and I said "no!".  She took it twice more, once in the opposite arm (104/60 and 105/65, repsectively).  After that, I started taking my blood pressure about an hour after workouts.  The readings have been from 101 to 108 (systolic), but on non-workout days, my blood pressure has been pre-hypertention (about 120-128).  

Before this discovery, I've never known my top number to ever be below 115.

I don't know if blood pressure is relevant, or even if this is a bad thing, but it sure stunned me, especially since I've been cutting sodium in hopes of getting below 120.

BTW, I haven't heard back from the insurance company.

I keep the water coming all day.  My urine is nearly always clear, and I feel pretty good, even when my pressure is low; I just kind of feel more relaxed than normal; but not dizzy, woozy; or especially tired.

I think I'll google "low blood pressure" and ask my doctor to see if it is something I should worry about.

Post edited 10:38 pm – May 29, 2010 by gregsfc

Wow Darrin.  Thanks.  You do great work!

In that test study, those who did multiple leg sets dropped blood pressure down, from an average of just over 120, to 107 – 113.  My readings from 101 to 108 aren't that much more below the ones in the study.

Also, that day at work, I had been netting up 50-60 lbs. of live trout.  I was partially squatting with each net full and then standing straight up and curling to put the net on a hook attached to a scale.  My legs stayed pretty pumped.  It's actually a pretty good, full-body exercise, but I don't recommend doing hundreds of reps as I did that day.

Give the vitamins about a week or so to kick in, if by the end of the month they aren't helping much let me know.  I'll igve you a couple websites for a few of the best (and unfortunately most expensive) types on the market.

Sounds like you're doing the right thing with the blood work.  Something doesn't seem right if it's wearing you out to that point.

I'm usually full of energy most of the day of a lifting workout but tired the day after.  Cardio doesn't seem to affect me unless I do that HIIT stuff (which tires me like lifting).  But I'm not so tired that I can't hardly work.

If my workout is particularly intense, as with full body or legs, I may be tired for a couple of days after.

I'm not taking good vitamins or antioxidants yet.  I'm running through my worthless ones first (almost out).  I thought that would have helped some at least.