So, long story short, it’s a hard knock life with school. Just curious, does anyone know if sleep deprivation and chronic stress during “rest” periods (I laugh, even though it’s in parentheses) will accelerate muscle atrophy and detraining?
If there’s no primary lit. on it out there it might make for an interesting study. You can’t force people to be chronically stressed out but you can make sleep an independent var. The lack of sleep would definitely impair the consolidation of fitness gains during my last training cycle that’s for sure.
Not sure why I want to know–it’s probably better if I don’t and just pretend I’ve had a nice week off from training. So yeah, gonna tell myself, yep, very well rested right now, gonna kill the 3x (uphill ITT/crit/RR) race weekend coming up! Gonna have to channel my inner Jens Voigt and suffer like a maniac.
So, long story short, it’s a hard knock life with school. Just curious, does anyone know if sleep deprivation and chronic stress during “rest” periods (I laugh, even though it’s in parentheses) will accelerate muscle atrophy and detraining?
From personal experience, it doesn’t help.
It’s just a week… don’t freak out. IF you had a decent base of fitness in there and even better were really pushing just prior to the break, it’s probably a good thing to take some time off. I don’t think you end up a “flat” as you do with running and swimming where after a break you can feel a little awkward starting up a again.
And if it’s med school, just wait until residency…
And if it’s residency, just wait until fellowship… Etc etc
Yeah, no kidding. I used to do fitness and health testing on med students. The difference from one semester to the next was akin to seeing energized bunnies vs walking dead. Of course, the zombies had many of the bodily systems drawn all over their bodies, which was always very entertaining. Oh, and the attrition rate was striking as well.
