Shivering and feeling cold day after hard session

[RockCoach]

Do you monitor your resting heart rate apon waking in the mornings? If you have overtrained, not sufficiently recovered or are becomming sick with flu etc - your resting pulse will be higher than normal. This obviously won't work if you haven't been monitoring before the strange symptoms started.

 

V12man, will a viral illness also show an increase resting heart rate?

[hayleyearth]

i agree FULLY with measuring your heartrate a few times a day (when waking, sitting at the desk, before training, during and after a while) - I do it and it is the 1st sign for me that something is up (or down)..

 

edit: my normal resting heartrate is +- 49-51, when it is 68+ then these days I put myself to bed. (no jokes)

Edited November 27, 2012 by hayleyearth

[RockCoach]

You may also be one of those individuals who has much stronger legs than cardio system. In other words you are able to drive your heart right up to max quite easily. Your body doesn't like going there too often so is letting you know to back off.

 

Some decent loooooooong, slooooooow base work will help if this is the case.

[V12man]

 

V12man, will a viral illness also show an increase resting heart rate?

 

Probably - but it's not diagnostically useful - pain or a bacterial infection would do the same for eg.

[V12man]

A cause could be dehydration.

 

Unlikely - in any case this is easy to see - stand on a scale regularly enough to know your normal weight - if you vary more than 5% down from that after a ride, then you might be dehydrated - drink water until you pee - if you have not been to pee after 3 liters over 3 hours, then be concerned about kidney failure - especially if you take non-steriodal anti inflammatories - they are dangerous when combined with endurance excercise in my opinion.

 

The body is pretty tolerant of minor dehydration levels (up to around 5% of bodyweight) - as long as you keep drinking on a ride, you will not generally have any issues with dehydration if you stay within that limit - note - drinking means about 500ml an hour of fluid or 2 full size bottles every 3 hours.

 

It is not neccesarily usefull to drink at a faster much rate than that, as that is close to the maximum stomach emptying rate for fluid for average sized people.

[BergForce]

Does it help to put a jacket on?

[CJVDM]

Thanks V12man, will take your advice, im starting to feel better today. Neither my heartrate or blood pressure was abnormal the last time and the doc also sttled on 'viral' infection with flu like symptoms. ill do the rest thing and let you know if it happens again.

 

ps. the chills are still there but not nearly as bad and my apetite is slowly returning, yesterday morning i didnt even bother eating breakfast

Edited November 28, 2012 by CJVDM

[CJVDM]

Does it help to put a jacket on?

it helps a little but the 'internal' cold feeling remains. its difficult too explain but the cold sort feels like its in your bones, not the skin. i also checked my temperature and it showed normal eg no fever

[RockCoach]

Does your skin also resemble that of a plucked chicken even on a hot day before a ride? You may be taking some performance enhancing drugs.

 

/jk

[CJVDM]

I wish

i normally have an energy drink, but actually, come to think of it, both times this happened so far, ive been on water...

[King_Crispy]

You might have glandular fever.

You also wake up in the morning feeling buggered?

[CJVDM]

Dont think so, as per wikipedia glandular fever's symptoms onclude fever and sores in the mouth and headaches which i dont have. Muscles ache is prop a result of my training.

['Dale]

You're feeling better?

[Let's Ride]

Get better. Try doing some base. Long slow rides. Should help.

[RockCoach]

Get better. Try doing some base. Long slow rides. Should help.

 

Yes. What I said too...

['Dale]

I'd suggest total REST for a week.

Then get back in the saddle.