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Ironman training, illness & supplements to help???
wyno70
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I'm 12 weeks into a 30 week Ironman training plan (IMCH July 25). This will be my first Ironman but I've spent 4 seasons in triathlon and have done mainly Olympic and a couple of Half Ironman races.
I seem to have hit a period of getting ill fairly regularly. This is largely due to my son having started nursery 2 months ago and constantly bringing home coughs, colds and sickness bugs. Unfortunately I'm asthmatic and have always picked up anything going very easily!
Having said that, I do suspect that it's also due to a moderate amount of overtraining, as obviously I'm doing more training (with more structure to it) than ever before. As such I have scaled things back slightly. This isn't a concern at present as I have plenty of time until IM but I don't want to lose any more time to illness.
When I have got ill, I've stopped training and have given myself good recovery time, so I don't think I'm doing a lot wrong, just getting unlucky!!!!
I haven't got high aspirations, I simply want to finish the Ironman within the timescale!
I've tried various multi vitamiuns etc in the past and have never really noticed any benefits.
So, my question is, to those that are more experienced than I in endurance training, have you used health supplements, vitamins, etc in order to help your body through the rigours of a heavy training schedule.
I'm not talking anything like creatine/ protein shakes/ performance enhancing stuff as I'm not at all interested. I'm simply after something that will hopefully increase my bodies resistance to germs and infections, when it's otherwise tired from training!
I'm going to give some echinacea a go and see if that helps and have also introduced fish oil regularly (as I don't eat any fish). Other than that my diet is pretty well balanced with plenty of fruit and veg, so I'm hopefully doing all I should be there.
Any thoughts/ suggestions or recommendations would be a great help.
Thanks.
I seem to have hit a period of getting ill fairly regularly. This is largely due to my son having started nursery 2 months ago and constantly bringing home coughs, colds and sickness bugs. Unfortunately I'm asthmatic and have always picked up anything going very easily!
Having said that, I do suspect that it's also due to a moderate amount of overtraining, as obviously I'm doing more training (with more structure to it) than ever before. As such I have scaled things back slightly. This isn't a concern at present as I have plenty of time until IM but I don't want to lose any more time to illness.
When I have got ill, I've stopped training and have given myself good recovery time, so I don't think I'm doing a lot wrong, just getting unlucky!!!!
I haven't got high aspirations, I simply want to finish the Ironman within the timescale!
I've tried various multi vitamiuns etc in the past and have never really noticed any benefits.
So, my question is, to those that are more experienced than I in endurance training, have you used health supplements, vitamins, etc in order to help your body through the rigours of a heavy training schedule.
I'm not talking anything like creatine/ protein shakes/ performance enhancing stuff as I'm not at all interested. I'm simply after something that will hopefully increase my bodies resistance to germs and infections, when it's otherwise tired from training!
I'm going to give some echinacea a go and see if that helps and have also introduced fish oil regularly (as I don't eat any fish). Other than that my diet is pretty well balanced with plenty of fruit and veg, so I'm hopefully doing all I should be there.
Any thoughts/ suggestions or recommendations would be a great help.
Thanks.
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I also eat loads of fruit.....
Hope this helps
Personally, I'm training for my very first triathlon which happens to be IMCH. I also have asthma and tend to catch whatever's going around, but whenever I start to feel a bit rubbish I find ten minutes under a sun bed helps a lot!
I am currently taking Vit C, zinc, rosehip eccinecha and a multivitamin as i have had a cold for over a week which is a bit nasty (chest) and won't go away. No training since Friday now and I'm getting tetchy...