Training Starts In Earnest

First early morning session today. I was in the Gym at 7.30

Got very headachey today. Didnt have breakfast before I trained. The theory is that with very low glucose in the body it has no choice but to get its energy by converting fat into sugar. Then afterwards you hit your body with carbohydrate to replace the energy expended, but instead of that being stored as fat, it is slow release that is held as glucose.

I also cut righ down on the caffeine. Just one cup of tea before I started training. That wont have helped. Found this website on caffeine withdrawl http://coffeefaq.com/caffaq.html#CaffeineWithdrawal and thats what I experienced. So the headache was because of one of these things I think. I shall still drink about 3 mugs of tea a day because according to the Ranulph Fiennes Book "Fit For Life" the cancer fighting antioxidents in it outweigh the negatives effects of the caffeine... and I always believe what I want to believe :) Cant imagine not having a cuppa first thing in the morning!

Its important for me to cut down on the caffeine because although I have a better than average lung capacity, I have to get the oxygen into the muscles as efficiently as possible for the effort at altitude. There are 2 ways of doing that. Making your heart muscle pump more blood per cycle (Hence the CV work in the Gym) and letting the blood flow more freely around the arteries. Caffeine constricts the arteries, so by reducing caffeine, they should widen.