Everything is ready to go. You’ve already prepared your bag, and you’re heading to the pool for your usual workout. But suddenly you become unusual tired and weak. You feel like you won’t be able to endure an entire hour in the pool, so you decide to postpone. Or you end up going, but you feel exhausted. Your muscles are sore, and you are yawning, thinking that you should just stop. But your workout is the same as always, so what is making you so tired?
Tired muscles: what are the causes?
There are multiple reasons for tired muscles, especially if you’ve been unusually tired for a long time (let’s say over two weeks). Consulting a doctor is the best option, but if it is a sporadic episode, the most common causes are probably of a muscular or mental nature and can often depend on bad habits and an incorrect diet.
Muscle fatigue, most commonly affecting athletes and those who train frequently, may happen because you are inadequately resting between sessions. It is often caused by excessive lactic acid, which accumulates in the muscles and can’t be eliminated naturally. Usually, this byproduct of metabolism is re-converted into glucose, but when it builds up too much, we start to feel a burning sensation and tiredness, an unmistakable sign…
