The reason why you ache all over your body is because you are forcing it through an extreme stimulus. You’re pushing it real hard and this is its way of telling you that you’re pushing it real hard. Now you can ignore, put on a brave face, and go through with this big physical challenge. Or you can see to it that your performance is not going down the drain while you continue to beat yourself up.
I believe that if I, with all my misgivings and lifestyle challenges, can manage the latter then you with certainly can too. In fact, some of you may already have started to think on how they can incorporate the workouts I referred to earlier. Now that isn’t just good; it’s GREAT! And I really like it!
This section is just to help you a little with your efforts.
As a beginner, it’s always better if you start with sessions once a week only. Add in a day if you aren’t doing anything else to make it part of an effective plan.
Feeling a bit shaky are we after a especially difficult HIIT session? That happens when you’ve used all your primary fuel, the glycogen stored in your body. And that surprisingly, my dear reader, is what you and I wanted in the first place so yes it’s not insane but a good thing that you’re experiencing.
And, not unlike any machine, you need those levels back. So the right question instead that you should be asking right now is “how do we restore them?”
Your body, of course, is more than capable of doing it in good time, which basically makes anything we more of a facilitator, various catalysts that speed up the process, than the major component itself. If individuals dunking whole carb-loaded drinks within mere 20 minutes of the exercise have intrigued you before, they won’t now; you’d be doing the same thing for good effect.
To calculate your recovery formula though, so that you don’t lose the Paleo plus HIIT edge, is to consider the following:
Let’s take them one by one. Supposing that you work during the latter half of the day; from another angle, this means you’ve already consumed a significant portion of your calorie intake and that you have amply glycogen stores to work with in the first place. But what matters in particular is if you had anything to eat 2-3 hours prior to your workout, if you opt for a rigorous exercise, and then whether you feel shaky afterwards.
For example, you have your evening dinner at 5 and around 7, you have a 30-minute cardio routine scheduled. Following that, you feel fine; your muscles don’t feel shaky even though you did push yourself hard. You skip, no not the break, but your recovery formula drink and just have your normal post-workout nutrition after an hour or so to confirm that your body’s not still burning calories and you eating anything sooner won’t be ruining it.
Compare this with another scenario. You have skipped the 5-o meal; you take a pre-workout energy drink about 20 minutes before the session and then go and perform the routine with weights. Feeling a little weak? Then a drink instantly afterwards and a protein-rich meal within an hour might just save you.
Play with numbers if you have any of the following symptoms, indicating high or not enough carb:
Ok, stop right there. I think I’ve concentrated even post-workouts with talks about food only. How do you lose weight with that, if all you can think about is food, whether it’s more food, less food, or well just plain yet fiendishly tempting food. Let me amend that.
The other ultimate recovery tool is..oh so sweet slumber. And it seems I’ve just gone ahead and successfully done what I read this other day about pandas: if there’s something more to life than eating, it’s sleep. Death of conversation, right? I agree, but seriously not a bad idea if you’re talking about a Paleo HIIT journey.
It’s free. It makes you less cranky. It leaves you less hungry and therefore less cravings for high-carb foods. It saves muscle and burns fat, and doesn’t weakens the way your body’s glucose metabolism works.
Do you still think you’d need supplements now to aid your weight loss when you can do it just as easily going Paleo and incorporating high intensity interval training?