To put it in few words: today sucked.
I got maybe 2 and a half, maybe 3 hours of sleep. Last night I was so pissed off because I just couldn’t sleep and I kept seeing the hours on the clock pass by, and knew that I was gonna get less and less sleep. When I was awoken by the alarm, surprisingly enough it didn’t suck as much as I was expecting. I got up and had breakfast.
The suck started a few minutes later. For starters, I had a triple coffee in hopes it would keep me alert during the 6 hours of class I had (which, mind you, is the highlight of my day at the time: I was very happy to have class, I just feared falling asleep midway). The coffee caused a strong stomach burn + nausea combo, so yeah.
On top of that, my right wrist was killing me (and still is). I really need to get it checked out. For anyone who hasn’t read my past posts in which I mentioned the issue: the back of my wrist hurts like hell when I supinate it, or when compressive load is applied to my hand. Does that sound like 90% of the movement we do every day? I know I sound like an 80yo right now, but I’m just trying to convey that all the things I felt this morning made me feel pretty uncomfortable.
On top of the things I just mentioned, I had a mild headache and I felt very, very cold. The latter is due to one more bizarre thing that happens to me when I can’t sleep. I described it in another thread: basically I get really hot, no matter how cold the room is, and need to undress. This does eventually work to cool me down, but then I wake up in the morning freezing. So I had multiple layers of clothes on this morning and still felt cold for the first half of the day on top of everything else.
Training wise, well. I didn’t wanna train. I did it anyway, but I ended up dropping two back exercises (so I totaled out 3 exercises for 10 sets total, then 8 sets of biceps). It sucked all the way, but I’m proud of myself for getting to the gym and doing work even when I’m feeling like complete shit. This time I was very, very close to giving up but then I told myself that these are the times that make you stronger.
So this has been my day. It’s 11pm right now, and in just over an hour I’ll be heading to sleep. Tomorrow I got class at 11 so the schedule is a little bit more forgiving and I don’t have to wake up as early. However, one thing I notice after spending a night like last one is, I don’t really want to go to sleep. I instinctively fear spending another night like that, so I’d rather stay away from my bed and do something else for as long as I reasonably can. Fingers crossed.