Morning training - afternoon slump

Hi,

I've recently started training (again) and find that the only way I can stick to a training programme (or any exercise) is to do it in the morning before work as otherwise I just wont do it.  However, by doing this I find around 2/3pm in the afternoon I get extremely tired to the point where concentrating is difficult.  Has anyone else had this and overcome it?  Is there anything that helps?  Any help would be much appreciated.

Would love to help - but I am exactly the same - I go out about 5;35am - make sure i have a big bowl of cereal afterwards and lunch around 1 but start to flag again around 3 -4.

Same here I get up at 5am to run and I suffer the 3 - 4 pm slump especially if I have not got much to do. The only cure I have found is to go to bed really early but I don't like doing that as I would be going to bed at the same time as the kids It just feels wrong.

Lots of coffe does help a bit I guess.

maybe it is to do with what you are eatng when? I run early morning, but don't get an afternoon slump - although as a teacher my classes finish at 3:30 so I have a natural 'break' there - if I am staying at school for a meeting then I get chance for a drink, walk around, or if I am going home then I get a break before driving home.

I eat brekki after running, have a snack around 10:45 - normall banana/apple and lunch at 12:45 (those times are dictated by the school timetable)

oh, and I don't drink much coffee as it tends to make me feel worse

ditch the coffee.... it's the drink that ruined America.

I would suggest it's a nutrition thing.

Simple answer - get up earlier and run in the morning.  Join us on the SOC thread.

it is the 'who else gets up at stupid o'clock' thread

there are quite a few of us on there that get up early to run before work - it is in the 'general' section of the forums

nutrition - I generally have a bowl of porridge after running and before work. Fruit mid-morning, plus maybe some nuts if I am hungry and have some. lunch - normally a sandwich and fruit. If I have time to make a salad or something then I will have that at lunch.