cant sleep after intense workouts

[Protobuilder]

im lookin to maintain. my current goals are mostly cutting. Any exactly whats wrong with my pw meal if i were trying to gain?

It's fine (Coke is crap, but to each his own, LoL), but the "meal" three hours later of one can of tuna is terrible unless you weigh 105 pounds. You should pound down the protein and calories after your workout (which you're doing w/ the chicken, rice, bread, whatever) . . . and then probably an hour later or so, repeat. Then, about 2.5-3 hours later, another meal. If you want to get anal about it, the PWO meal probably oughta' have some liquid protein as should the next meal an hour later.

 

[super_rice]

post/during workout:
20g gatorade + 40-60g whey isolate + dextrose + malto + 5g creatine

meal 30 min post workout
16-24oz steak
bowl of yams
bowl of broccoli + carrots + lettuce
glass of chocolate milk or two...
4g fish oil
glucosamine sulfate

that's mine and it works

if yo ucan't sleep try a big hit of magnesium 300-600mg 30 min prior to bed. some teammates of mine have trouble sleeping after heavy front squats.

 

[eager2learn]

does this happen to else? I worked out yesterday at 7pm. I did heavy squats then heavy deads maxing on both. then i tried to do chest but didnt have much power left. I got home ate and sat around. I felt on the edge for the rest of the night. Went to bed at around 2:30 but slept like shit(restless and kept waking up) and woke up dead tired @ 10:30. This happenes every time i have a badass workout. Does anyone else suffer from this?

Its clearly that i tax my cns like crazy. Is this bad and does it happen to anyone else

I have this problem. No, that's an understatement. I have it BAD.

I have to lift at night due to the weightlifting portion of my gym being only open at 5 pm til 10. Even if I do manage a morning workout, it still doesn't help.

Whenever I have a day where I go to failure and require a spot, or a miss an olympic lift, my sleep is toast. My heart will beat fast for the rest of the day, my muscles will cramp, and it will feel like my adrenline is high all day.

My diet is DAMN good, too.

It's only gotten worse for me as the weights have gotten heavier.

What I'm going to try this week is cut out going to failure completely. Make all of my lifts easy - medium difficulty. Coach says that will hinder progress, but lighter weights + 8 hours of sleep is better than
heavy weights with 5 hours of broken no REM sleep for me.

 

[muscelove]

thats the same shit i go thru. U described my problem exactly. I hate it. Even when i do sleep, i wake up, have wierd dreams and only sleep a few hours. Sometimes i wake up still amped. then after about 3 hours i crash badly. Its only when i have a crazy squat and dead lift day.

 

[BiggT]

I have this problem. No, that's an understatement. I have it BAD.

I have to lift at night due to the weightlifting portion of my gym being only open at 5 pm til 10. Even if I do manage a morning workout, it still doesn't help.

Whenever I have a day where I go to failure and require a spot, or a miss an olympic lift, my sleep is toast. My heart will beat fast for the rest of the day, my muscles will cramp, and it will feel like my adrenline is high all day.

My diet is DAMN good, too.

It's only gotten worse for me as the weights have gotten heavier.

What I'm going to try this week is cut out going to failure completely. Make all of my lifts easy - medium difficulty. Coach says that will hinder progress, but lighter weights + 8 hours of sleep is better than
heavy weights with 5 hours of broken no REM sleep for me.

There is science to this I am certain, but for all intents and purposes you sound like you have some symptoms of 'overreaching', which is the path to becoming chronically overtrained. I am figuring this because you said even if you train early it makes no difference. (If it was only after late-evening workouts, your answer is as simple as you're too fired up to sleep).

Anyway, with the volume/workload of olympic lifting there is a big adjustment process and your body has to be 'trained' to tolerate that type of volume and frequency. You'll adjust in due time I'm sure.

You may want to take a deload week though. Other symptoms besides sleeplessness are irritability, loss of sex drive, loss of appetite, feeling foggy and like your head is generally up your ass, lol, and like you 'got hit by a truck' yet you still can't sleep.

 

[JKurz1]

First off the can of tuna was not my pwo meal. My pwo meal consisted of a can of coke and 4 slices of white bread with jelly. Then 3 chicken breasts, broccoli and rice about 30 minutes later. I ate the can of tuna about 3 hours later. Its all that was in my cabinet aside from mustard. ran out of nonfat cottage. Its not stress. I sleep like a log all the time except when i have a badass workout. Im not thinking either. Its subconscious.

QUIT READING FLEX AND FOLLOWING CUTLER'S PW NUTRITION....the coke is a joke

 

[muscelove]

Didnt get it there pal.... just something i thought up

 

[solrosenberg]

The caffeine from the coke may have something to do with it. If I have any caffeine after 9:00, my sleep is effected majorly.

 

[needtogetaas]

i cant sleep any way.

 

[jordanyfz]

does this happen to else? I worked out yesterday at 7pm. I did heavy squats then heavy deads maxing on both. then i tried to do chest but didnt have much power left. I got home ate and sat around. I felt on the edge for the rest of the night. Went to bed at around 2:30 but slept like shit(restless and kept waking up) and woke up dead tired @ 10:30. This happenes every time i have a badass workout. Does anyone else suffer from this?

Its clearly that i tax my cns like crazy. Is this bad and does it happen to anyone else

......forgive me i havn t read this whole thread. but something i would like to share. if it hasn t been said.

..... Do not workout \lift before you go to bed. workingout/weight training \ cardio raises your body tempretare. once your body temp. is high, it will be close to impossible to fall asleep. if you need to, or you just prefer to train at night, give yourself at leat 2 hours before you try to fall asleep.