Hi, sorry if this is stupid.
I've been working till midnight recently and can't sleep well. I feel weak and soft and caught cold, sneezing all day, today I need to Squat, Bench and OHP which requires big energy, I feel soft and energyless. I'm suppose to lift yesterday but I skipped it and postponed it today, I worked till like 3am last night, I still feel soft today.

Should I?
1. lift the weight I used to lift last week? I expect I cant complete my routine today, maybe will KO after 3 exercise
2. drop a lil weight but increase rep (I'm not sure about this)
3. take a week rest (erm erm damn I don't wanna stop working out)
4. take coffee and lift?

This happen often, I often work till midnight and can't have enough sleep.
Will it lead to overtraining?
Any help?

This post has been edited by helven: Jun 30 2015, 05:59 PM

Lifting isn't that important. Do a light workout if it makes you feel better psychologically.

what are you doing now? how do you feel now?

ultimately working out is to make yourself healthier.......if you feel shitier or get sick more often........it's pretty obvious what you need to do no?

His workout is not the problem, the problem is his work/sleep schedule, which is so bad that he can't even workout.

OP need adjust your work schedule/sleep if you can't cope.

This post has been edited by Armesh: Jun 30 2015, 08:07 PM

Occasionally, if I receive freelance job, I have to stay up pretty late to rush the thing out. More like buy money with health. So everytime when I need to OT, it's kind of hard for me to train, also feel like destroying my hardwork due to screwing up the rest time. Understood that health is about lifestyle in long time, besides this, anything I can do practically? like the way I should train or anything? looking for fresh ideas.

This post has been edited by helven: Jun 30 2015, 10:31 PM

Now you are using your health to buy money. Later you have to use money to buy health.
Money means nothing if you can't enjoy a quality life.

If your program is simple 3 days a week 1 hour per session program like SS/SL/Fierce 5 then you can't really simplify it anymore.

I'm also a freelancer, I sleep at 6am everday. But I always make sure everyday I get my 7~8 hours sleep in. Normally sleep for 5~6 hours at night then 5pm after back from gym I recover back the missing 1~2 hours.

I see bro, so it doesn't matter what time you sleep but as long as 7~8 hours is ok?
I always heard, or saw Chinese post saying that we should sleep before 11pm, saying that's the period our body do detox. Idk how true is that or any evidence to proof that. I din't do study on that but base on my own experience, I feel better to sleep before 12am and after 12am.

Sleep before 11pm to detox? Sounds bloody bullshit to me

Everyone has their own comfortable sleeping cycle, for some it's 12am and wake up at 8am, some it's 3am and 12pm. The key is to maintain a consistent sleeping pattern, your body might feel horrible if you keep changing your sleeping times.

As long you sleep enough. That varies between 5~8 hours depending on individuals. My enough is 6 hours per day.

There are many ways to sleep as you can see here:
http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/0...-is-not-needed/

Currently I'm using the Byphasic cycle on training days and Monophasic on non training days.

Not sure on the detox part, heard of it before but never actually checked it out or do any research on it. As for sleeping hour, there is actually an optimum sleeping period and they're not really far apart. Your best bet is definitely to wake up in the morning and not in the afternoon, reason being is the morning sun. Afternoon sun is too harsh. Of course there are more reasons to it which pretty much ties to the way the human body works. But yes, consistency is key.

I read somewhere that our body does not know the time so it doesn't matter what time a person sleeps. It is just better to sleep at night because by sunrise, with the brightness we will not be having a full rest due to the light but if one is to have thick curtains and a dark room, sleeping through the afternoon is never a problem, with the adequate amount of hours as well

I believe that the elders are just using this to convince us to sleep earlier, same method as telling kids that if they're naughty police will catch them.

True but you'll miss out on the morning rays. Not a big problem if it's not too often but if you're talking about being optimized, then certainly not. Yeah body does not know time, you can feel temperature though, also Vitamin D. It's just a question of enough, lacking or too much.

This post has been edited by whyamiblack: Jul 3 2015, 02:30 PM

You are fatigued. Recover then carry on, shift everything towards the night including your food cycle.

If your rest area is compromised (disturbances), you are f@#ked.