So I'm still a newbie after only training for a few month. The issue I'm getting at the moment is that I'm finding I get very tired and sleepy (fatigued) during everyday life and I think it's at least partly because of the lifting. I've been doing sports for several years (and still doing outside lifting) so I'm not coming right off the couch.
I've always needed about 8 hours of sleep per night to feel good. Even now I'm getting this but still feeling tired. I normally perk up a bit when I walk in the gym but it makes doing tasks that I already lack motivation for even harder, such as studying and working to make money to feed myself. And it's not an eating thing as at the moment if anything I am eating too much.
I'm going to experiment with allowing myself more sleep time and see if it makes a difference, but I'm curious as to whether anyone with relatively normal sleep patterns needed more sleep when they started lifting.
I've always needed about 8 hours of sleep per night to feel good. Even now I'm getting this but still feeling tired. I normally perk up a bit when I walk in the gym but it makes doing tasks that I already lack motivation for even harder, such as studying and working to make money to feed myself. And it's not an eating thing as at the moment if anything I am eating too much.
I'm going to experiment with allowing myself more sleep time and see if it makes a difference, but I'm curious as to whether anyone with relatively normal sleep patterns needed more sleep when they started lifting.