Not enough of the first two, or too much of the third, and your results are going to suffer. As long as you are only allowing yourself to sleep for 4 hours a night, maybe you need to reconcile yourself to less intense training. When you can build 8 hours of sleeping into your schedule, then think about ramping up training intensity.
Dude, I feel your pain. I have to get up at 3:30-3:45AM in order to get in my gym time and still make the 30-mile commute to the office. Now, I don’t know why you only got 4 hours of sleep; maybe it’s just the nature of your schedule, but personally, I am asleep before 9:00 every night. It took a while, but I am completely used to it: in bed by 8:30 and out like a light in 15 minutes. I pre-set the coffee pot to brew at 3:30 and I have a glass of water and one Spike (two on leg day) on the nightstand.
Alarm goes off;
take Spike and hit snooze;
out of bed 9 minutes later ready to kicke much butte!
Well… more sleep was not an option tonight. Usually I get about 6 to 7h.
But if I wanna be consistent in my training I had to go, right?
If I ditch my w/o once, I’ll do it again…I know myself. No need for TBT if i train that irregularly.
Psyching myself up a little more might be a good start. Perhaps I should take my mp3-player with me more often.
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overtraining.
Sleep
Eat
Train
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Not enough sleep. Agreed.
Not enough Food. Don’t know? To little breakfast for an intense w/o?
Don’t you feel fed up if u eat that much early in the morning shortly before training?