ok so, try to sleep at 4am, been trying to fix my sleep schedule for a few weeks now.. got it down from 6am to 4-4:30 am.. but sleep sucks now, i wakeup way too much.. so i've gone back to using melatonin to try and help me get a better night's sleep, but that shuts me down mentally when i'm dunking.. i've noticed that when i use melatonin, the next day i just can't get into that 4th or 5th gear.. i consider myself to have 5 gears while dunking.. when i get lack of sleep, sometimes i'm fine, i can still tap into that ability.. but when i use melatonin, even if i get alot of sleep, much of the time i end up just being unable to psyche up at all, i can literally feel this "haze" in my brain.. i just can't get into 4th or 5th gear, usually can't even get into 4th, like today... whenever i have this "burning feeling in my eyes", i'm just fucked, nothing i can do to have a primed workout, and with my goals, i need to be primed every god damn day.. im fucking up..
ok so, i also need to eat more fiber.. the best i ever felt in life was when i was boxing.. tons of cardio/heavy bag/jump rope/whatever, but my diet was crazy high in fiber, at least 60g daily, from cans of red kidney beans (2-3 per day) and bananas.. body felt great..
maybe i'm just older now but honestly, i feel "like shit" alot.. sleep schedule has alot to do with it i imagine, but when i was boxing i was going to bed around 3-4 am every night, so not sure if that's it.. i was 22-25 when i boxed, i'm turning 29 soon, so age definitely could be a factor.
another thing, contributing to that shitty feeling, is my calves just feel HORRIBLE.. today i finally decided to ice them, wrapped them incredibly tight in a good ice pack, 10 minutes each calve, they felt so much better after that and still do.. definitely need to get back on that.
i feel best when i do my high rep lifting sessions, regardless of how i do them.. but i have to stretch before and/or after to really get that light feeling in my body to the max.. when i stretch + high rep (LTMP-VOLUME), i feel amazing.. when i stretch + singles (LTMP-SINGLES) it's mixed, sometimes i feel great, sometimes i feel shitty, but i seem to feel shittier and shittier as the days go on without LTMP-VOLUME sessions.. the cardio-lift sessions i've been doing, are definitely doing me good lately with my body composition goals, and i do feel "Better', but they have intensified my calve achyness issues, but that might be ok now with multi-day icing treatments.
ok just getting that out, because today sucked, i feel horrible, landed my best reverse though and some ok dunks, but given how i feel and how i just couldn't get into 4th gear, it pisses me off so damn bad because things could have been alot more productive had i resolved these issues already.
sincerely,
lazy fuckface.
