Go to the doctor. Especially if you are in otherwise OK shape and your capacity for exercise doesn’t seem to improve with practice. Being unable to walk for one hour without severe fatigue is pretty good evidence of exercise intolerance.
Exercise intolerance is basically an inability to perform physical activities that someone your age typically would be able to.
This can be evidence of various underlying health issues (heart, lungs, muscle disorders, nutritional deficiencies).
Second getting yourself to a doctor OP, you ought to have energy to walk more than an hour under normal circumstances
A big part is getting used to it. At the beginning I felt like throwing up after 2-3 sets of squats and fell asleep when coming home. Now I feel “fine” after 5 sets and don’t fall asleep at home.
Food can also play a role. Some people like training on empty stomachs and eating after, I like eating before.
I second the doctor.
It might just be an utter lack of fitness. But even then a doctor might give you tips.
Or it could be something more serious.
I will have my butler bring around the jaguar to the front of the estate to get to my luxurious doctor visit. Treat yo self. Baller style. Make it rain
Did I use too many big words for you? Or is that a commentary about the for-profit health system?
Exercise intolerance is a symptom of really serious shit. Heart disease, lung disease, kidney disease. Those are things OP should really get checked out. Even if they can barely afford it. That might well save their life.
Could be anemia, could just be undisciplined and out of shape, could be a struggle with depression. Many things can cause fatigue! Some your not fixing on your own and require medical intervention.
My best advice is start small. Try walking for 30 minutes and work your way up. The hardest part of working out is consistency. It doesn’t really matter what you do but just make sure you do something everyday. Dont let yourself make excuses. If you can form the habit of doing something everyday your 99% of the way there.
I work out in the morning, before work.
Food, sleep and consistency. I am struggling now worse than ever because its cold outside and it zaps my energy away. So I also lock my door and set alarms, because if I enter my room and rest even for 5 min, its over. I will snuggle myself and fall fast asleep. I need to auto nag myself to do it
Sounds like you’re in hibernation mode. Wait, is this a bear posting?
I’m pretty fit, but winter did the same to me. The solution was a light clock that simulated the sunrise
I’m unqualified to answer but will anyway. A one hour walk doesn’t knock down most people that I know. You might be warn out or a little sore later if you’re not used to it, but if that’s really pushing your limit then I’d recommend looking into some things:
- Proper nutrition. I’m not saying “eat more lettuce”. What I mean is getting plenty of protein and iron. Veggies too but with balance and regularity. Take a one a day vitamin, get a little B12 in there. Avoid junk food, make your meals count.
- Are you getting enough sleep? Nutrition and walking daily helps tremendously, this could fix itself.
- Get a blood panel from a doctor, see what your deficiencies are. Switch up your diet to help it unless a prescription is temporarily required.
If you can get used to moving and find joy in taking care of yourself, a one hour walk will fail to phase you after a while. If you’re already taking care of yourself, getting professionally evaluated from a good doctor can help.
Idk how people do it. I can’t find the time or energy. Commute in my area is damn long compared to most other places. My particular commute is also pretty long… and I just don’t have it in me to get up earlier than 5 to workout nor scramble time after work to do some kind of workout before bed (which scientifically has been proven to be bad for you anyway). Idk. Idk 😔
How big are you? I’ve got a buddy that is > 500lbs. He struggles to walk a city block. If you’re not clinically obese, walking an hour shouldn’t be difficult. As others mentioned, if your in reasonably good health, go to a doctor.
Chronic fatigue is a bitch. Could be from any number of health issues, maybe even some that could be helped by doctors, just gotta go in and get checked out
I used to do an hour of power lifting in the morning, then after work, two hours of BJJ/Kickboxing/conditioning five days a week.
I didn’t start doing that, I built up to it over twelve hard months with heavy focus on base fitness and flexibility.
Needed a complete change in diet and mentality to do so. My diet was totally focused on training for the longest time, stupid mix/maxing such as eating lentils over rice due to lower sugar content and higher protein content.
It was also a massive help that I WfH and have a weights cage at home so that saved an enormous amount of time that I could reinvest in training.
I cannot train that hard now as I am too old to recover from that much training but I did so for more than a decade. Now I just focus on lifting every other day with stretching/yoga in between.
I wished I worked out more right now. My problem is that I’m spending more and more spoons on my job and I don’t have enough remaining to exercise.
spoons?
You heard them
That’s why I work out at night. Preferably right before bedtime.
I used to love doing that. The gym is so much quieter and empty at that time too. It was messing with my sleep though getting myself that amped up that late at night :(
So it could be a number for things from you not being disciplined enough or any other various mental issues to you have really low iron and no matter what you’ll feel fatigued until treated. My little sister went YEARS of her life feeling as though she just wasn’t as good as others and always feeling like shit for never having energy to do anything well come to find out she’s anemic! Once she started getting treated she bounced back now she works overtime every week goes to gym almost daily turned her whole life around. Make sure your in good health before you get too hard on yourself!
Age, diet (to a lesser extent), repetition (habit) and proper sleep to recover. If perhaps you have sleep aponea you won’t recover properly and will feel tired, hell, you’ll probably feel tired before you start.
A age, at 60 I struggle to lift, or do long mountain bike rides (my two go to exercise activities) these days and not be a bit shattered after…but then I retired at age 40 so that’s sweet as well. As I sit on my sofa typoibg this feeling a bit shattered from deadlifts and squats today.
