Not feeling 100% going into training but feeling great afterwards. How is this possible?

[MMouse]

Odd experience last night.

- scheduled to be hard training last night (sparring)
- didnt feel fully recovered
- warm up felt like crap, no power, fatigue
- was about to call it a day and should have
- sparring felt awful
- after the session, out of no where I felt great
- used extra energy to do a CO session
- still felt good

Anyone experienced this?

I didnt have a HR monitor on me so it was hard to tell if I was deep into parasympathetic or sympathetic prior to training.

 

[selfcritical]

If you were parasympathetic overreaching than it would make sense, if the sparring were power-intensive.

 

[ruberked]

Endorphins?

 

[D Train]

I didnt have a HR monitor on me so it was hard to tell if I was deep into parasympathetic or sympathetic prior to training.

Could you explain this to me?

 

[MMouse]

Could you explain this to me?

Going into training, I didn't feel 100% fully recovered from my last workout session 2 days prior (light drills and shadow boxing for couple of hours + hard pick up game of baseketball in the evening) so it was hard to tell if I had difficultly raising my HR or lowering my HR.

 

[sportkillergreg]

U got a 2nd wind, is normal

 

[aus101]

Your body releases painkillers and antiinflams to combat the damage caused by exertion. Raising your body temp will have similar affects.

 

[M1ksondong]

Sometimes this is the best part of training. Love it when this happens, and it happens to me probably half the time.

 

[j123]

This happens more frequently to me actually. Some days before leaving work I feel like shit, and dred about going to the gym, but for some reason it ends up being a great sparring / rolling / lifting session, and I feel great afterwards. It happens.

If you do feel over-trained, just take a week or make it a light active recovery week. It gets the best of us at times.

 

[Phlog]

I find the worse I feel, the better I feel after training. I theorise that training makes me feel 8/10, thus usually it's a mark up. Occasionally I feel great and train only to feel worse, that's when I felt 9-10/10 beforehand.

 

[colby25]

some of my best days were days I usually didn't feel like going into sparring or training and felt like bumming around.

 

[Vitamin C]

I would think that it's more a result of your body being physically capable to do the work. The low energy and dread to work out is more a psychological barrier.