legs day = crap nights sleep

[eatliftrest]

Does anyone else always have a crap sleep after legs day? That restless, can't settle, achey thing. Pisses me off

[nate225]

CNS taking a beating! Only seems to happen with heavy / high volume legs as they are such large muscles (quads/hams/glutes). I'm sure a blinder of a back workout could do the same but I've never managed it.

Fidgety broken sleep = great leg session LOL

[maccaz]

happened to me a while ago after deadlifting in the evening, went for a 1rm followed by 100kg x 20. tried sleep a couple hours later and was sweaty and nauteous and fidgety

[Dinahlady]

My partner gets it... I've never really noticed it but im not doing split body parts atm and always sleep like a log anyway!! 

[Gym rat]

I manged to sleep like a log after training quads but for when it comes to getting out of bed the next day I think I wish I had a zimmer frame by my bed to help me get out of bed.

[Pseudonym]

Sounds like you're describing Restless Leg Syndrome. I get this a bit from time to time - just this constant urge to stretch, right?

Do you take a multi-vitamin? This can be triggered by low magnesium, so either get a good men's multi (check that it's got a decent amount of magnesium in it) or take a specific magnesium supplement.

[eatliftrest]

Thanks peeps. I take a multi and a bunch of other stuff and don't think it's so much the rsl Pseud, more of Nate's figgety broken sleep thing. Ah well, I guess one bad night isn't too much to ask for massive wheels *biggrin*

[AZIDE]

i get a crap nights sleep on leg day because i feel guilty about not having gone gym

[eatliftrest]

*biggrin*

[Psyke]

Try drinking tonic water before heading to bed on legs day, the quinine (sp?) in it helps.

 

 

[eatliftrest]

Cheers Psyke, worth a crack 

 

Now been offically expelled to the spare room for a couple of nights a week *pardon*   

[Imadeapoopsie]

ah i have bad sleep after leg day too. im sure it was something to do with lots of testostorone getting released after training legs

[AZIDE]

lol i doubt it

[Imadeapoopsie]

lol its jsut a guess since i thought test makes you more hyper and training large muscles ususally releases test.. and probly the more muscular you are the more (EDIT) your t levels increase >?? ..m jst  assuming haha

[jimmybro1]

lol its jsut a guess since i thought test makes you more hyper and training large muscles ususally releases test.. and probly the more muscular you are the more you produce >?? ..m jst  assuming haha

LOL

[Imadeapoopsie]

 

lol its jsut a guess since i thought test makes you more hyper and training large muscles ususally releases test.. and probly the more muscular you are the more you produce >?? ..m jst  assuming haha

LOL

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[Pseudonym]

It's true that weight training can increase test, and some people do find it hard to sleep on high doses of test, but I don't think the increase you'll get from training legs is going to be enough to disrupt your sleep by itself. There'll be something else going on there.

[Imadeapoopsie]

It's true that weight training can increase test, and some people do find it hard to sleep on high doses of test, but I don't think the increase you'll get from training legs is going to be enough to disrupt your sleep by itself. There'll be something else going on there.

yea ur probly rite it must be the blood rush to the legs or some body checmical rush or something lol

[OnlyHuman]

My sleep suffers as well if I end up training legs in the late afternoon with high volume and/or intensity. I can get away with the same volume amd intensity by simply getting it done in the early part of the day.

[malfunction]

The long reply I typed got lost, so the short version is: look into compression pants for recovery to sleep in. The best purchase I have make in ages.