Am I a wimp????

Maybe this is a simple and rather elementary issue, but I'm stumped by it. Okay, I have been an avid gym goer now since October, 2005.  I go at least 3-4 times a week, faithfully.  Before my LBL I could easily do 50 minutes on the elliptical and then the circuit or a class before heading home.  Since going back after my surgery (just about a month now) I am up to about 40 minutes on the ellip, and then the circuit or the class -- pretty much back to normal. Okay, so last night i decide to do a new class that they are offering called Group Active.  I decide to do it after my weight lifting class - Group Power -- which is basically 1 hour of lfting weights to music.  It is my favorite class!!  Anyhow after GP I decide to stay and do GA, which I did.  I made it through the class fairly easily.   I didn't like it so much, honestly it wasn't that challenging. Wellllllllllllll, I get out of there at 8:30 and by around 9:15 i'm feeling really fatigued.  By the time I went to bed I was in a semi-coma!!!!  When I woke up twice in the night to go to the bathroom I could barely move.  This morning I am so sore and so tired and I have such a massive headache!!!!  What the heck is wrong with me? Okay, I'm a pretty smart chickie.  Perhaps I'm just not usd to working out this long?  My workouts usually don't exceed 1 1/2 hours so this was 2 1/2 hours.  I've done this once before, taken classes back to back, and I was just as wrecked the last time. I see posts about people spending whole days (slight exaggeration) in the gym.  Are these people conditioned differently or am I truly a huge wimp?  I do tend to do everything to the nth degree, so I know that I normally push myself during my workouts.  I'm just confused as to why I am so sore and so tired today, when this whole exercise thing is definitely nothing new to me

Any insights for a wimp???

Hi Donna, Seems to me like you answered your own question.  You worked out nearly twice as long as you normally do.  Plus, you did a class that you haven't done before and even though while you were doing the GA class, it felt easy to you, you could have been working some muscles that you don't normally work.  Our bodies get use to whatever we normally do.  When we throw something new at it, the body responds, usually with pain and fatigue.  So, good thing you have this day off and can rest youself.  Why don't you take a nice, hot, long relaxing bath.

Hi Tali, Yeah, you are right, I answered my own question.  But dang, I'm so not used to feeling this way.  I am usually really keyed up and feeling great after a workout.  Let me tell you, if new people try working out and come home feeling like this, I don't blame them for not going back!!!! And yes on our bodies getting used to what we are doing.  I never quite thought of it that way.  No surprise it's mad at me now!!! I'm embarrassed to admit that I haven't taken a bath in years.  I got so used to not fitting in the tub that I became embarassed to keep on trying.  I may have to try it since I haven't been in the bath since I lost my weight.  Hmmmmmmmmm, this could be a nice day off!!!

What Tali said. Wimp? YEAH RIGHT! That's a lot of exercise, which is awesome. If anything, I will call you out on being to wimpy to not proclaim your gym greatness. WIMP! Give yourself some credit...that's an incredible workout. And for bubble baths, I recommend the "brown sugar & fig" scent from Bath and Body Works!

I definitely never proclaim my gym greatness.   I like working out, don't get me wrong, but I surely don't love it.  Who loves going to a place that makes you sweat like a sow, get pains in places you didn't even know you had, and makes you wear those pants that are never flattering? LOL I have cucumber melon bubble bath that I've been using as a shave gel to shave my legs.  Like I told Tali, I haven't taken a bath in years. Maybe it's time?????

Girl get your little butt in that tub, having not had a bath in so long, it will be fabulous!!

Hmmm, I am kind of concerned about how bad you feel. Not like drop over dead concerned, just a bit mystified and perhaps you have something else going on...thyroid or something odd?  We do change as we see more birthdays. I'm not real sure what is going on, but I have never felt that way even after all day out on cross country skis or after my 60 mile bike ride. Like you, I am a dedicated regular exerciser, but the way your body is responding seems  a little drastic to me. I felt that way one time...after 45 ish miles on my bike on a very hot day...in retrospect I realize i had not eaten or drank right for that much activity.  Maybe a bit of sunstroke/blood sugar crash thang? So, that is why the term that comes to mind is "hitting the wall"  or "bonking"...how was your die****er intake that day or more importantly, for the past several days? If severly low or odd for you, then maybe it makes sense. I am thinking along the lines of serious blood sugar drop, or thyroid or ???? Let me think about it and research it more.

hi Neecee, You hit the nail right on the head as to why I was also mystified over it.  It's not like it was new to me to push myself, this was just odd.  Even this morning I am hurting and I slept in til almost 8, I usually wake at 5.  I just couldn't drag myself out of bed. I had bloodwork before my LBL back in March.  It was all good, I even have a copy of it, not that I can read it all that well. LOL but it was good enough for my doc to go ahead. I guess as a non-WLS'er, I don't think of blood work and stuff like that.  I guess it couldn't hurt to figure all this out a little more. As far as intake, I feel I did good.  3 meals and even dinner right before the gym, because the new class started at 7:30 and i wanted to do the weight class at 6:30.  Family dinner was important so I ate before I left.  Turkey meatloaf with grilled zucchini. Like I said, I had felt this once before after doing a marathon at the gym.  You know me, obsessive as they come!!! I'll look into this with my PCP and let you all know what comes out of it. thanks!

you know how they talk about really no one needs to drink gatorade or any of those gym-type drinks UNLESS you are working out for more than 90 minutes. maybe  with that much time at the gym, your sodium/H2O balence was knocking off and you needed to replace your electrolytes with one of those types of drinks. or its very possible for you to be sore (even if it felt like an easy class) because its a different type of movement that you are not used to. i dunno.

Andrea, I definitely love coming here to see the different ideas on things.  What you have said makes a whole lot of sense.  Water is all I had and i could definitely feel myself slowing down.  But true to my nature I pushed and pushed until i couldn't push anymore.   Coupled with the new class i defintely over did it.  I never drink energy drinks because of the amount of calories, but I definitely see how it might have helped! Thank you for your suggestions, I truly appreciate them!