How tired is too tired? (muscle, gym, fast, training)

[Nonuser]

It's 4:20 p.m. and I am tired. Reallllly tired. Don't know if exercise is gonna happen today.

How tired do you have to be, personally, to skip exercise?

[L2DB]

It depends. If you're tired because you didn't get enough sleep last night, then I might try to push through it. If you're tired because you ran 10 miles each of the last 5 days, take a day off or two. Tiredness is a common symptom of over-training, which you definitely don't want. Listen to your body.

[ukrkoz]

Switch to am exrcise. Or, if you can, do power nap pm and then go to gym.
Personally, I recover very fast for some reason. I do something crazy in the property, all beat up - hour rest, I can go to gym.
But I go 5 am now. As in the gym 5 am.

When you are too tired? when you can't move. Thing is, I am not sure what fatigue you referring to - muscle fatigue or mental fatigue asking for excuse to NOT do it?

[coschristi]

I've become very good at listening to my body as I've been recovering from Microcytic anemia. I live at 7,000ft elevation & when my hemoglobin was around 7 I could NOT exercise. Doctors orders; no exercise until the hemoglobin was 10+.

The problem is that I felt like it altered my whole lifestyle to be more sedentary, something I am working very hard to change.

In this past year I have had to have 9 units of blood transfused & my hemoglobin is hovering around 9. I have started walking & even RAN a quarter mile the other day. I don't want to set myself up for excuses or easy outs but if I try aerobic activity, say, at the wrong time of the month & at 7,000ft elevation I could be in big trouble with my heart.

Now I'm learning the difference between "anemia tired" which actually makes your limbs feel heavy & "just tired".

I'm excited for the future & am already loving my increased activity tolerance!

[brocco]

I usually do a few warm up exercises first at least to see how I feel