Fatigue

[LJWagner]

My vote goes to overtraining, and pushing for weightloss. Boredom will not cause loss of strength.

You can maintain strength and fitness on 2-3 good workouts a week, from my EP texts. Try that for 2 weeks, and the extra rest should have you feeling better. And be sure you are eating well. Your energy level should come up a lot, and you won't fall back at all.

Low potassium can cause fatigue, also, especially from long hot workouts. Do NOT ever use those plastic sweat suits, they'll just cause excess sweating, which is not real weight loss, its dehydration.

Get one of the new scales that can also show your body fat. My nephew went from 205 lbs and 31% fat to 185 and 21% body fat. So he had about 63 lbs of fat to start, and after 38 lbs. Lost 25lbs of fat, but gained 5 lbs of muscle. Never felt tired. You should not be losing much muscle.

Do you Tylenol for muscle soreness/pain ? If so, switch to something else. I have read in more than one source that it slows muscle recovery.

Don't compare yourself to others who have been training for years or even decades. Have long term targets, not short term ones when you are first getting fit.

Its been 2 months since you posted your problem. How have you progressed since ?

[dsikes]

[quote="LJWagner"]

Get one of the new scales that can also show your body fat. My nephew went from 205 lbs and 31% fat to 185 and 21% body fat. So he had about 63 lbs of fat to start, and after 38 lbs. Lost 25lbs of fat, but gained 5 lbs of muscle. Never felt tired. You should not be losing much muscle.

I've always wondered, how do the scales know the % fat?

[nteeman]

I've always wondered, how do the scales know the % fat?

Look here!