I’ve been working out steadily for about 7 months or so now. Really been getting after it, was getting better results than I’ve ever had and was very happy with my progress, up until the last few weeks.
About 3 weeks ago I decided to quit smoking marijuana after being a habitual smoker for years and years. It totally destroyed my sleep, gave me pretty terrible insomnia for 5 nights (not in a row) and has generally made me sleep much worse. I think it’s beginning to get better as I’ve been able to sleep through the night the past few nights successfully which is good.
During this time I’ve still been working out as hard as ever, shortening my workouts some to compensate for the tiredness from lack of sleep. I’ve also changed my legs training program up because I have a goal to dunk a basketball. I started this program on March 29th when I first measured my vertical. Since then my vertical has dropped from about 30 inches to ~24 inches when I measured it today, a little over 3 weeks later. I don’t want to give up on this goal because of a setback but it seems like my body is not responding well to what I’m doing.
I attribute this loss of leg power to the fact my sleep has been bad, and since I’ve still been working my legs hard they’re just broken down and not recovering properly. Im not sure if my upper body is suffering as well because I haven’t done any lifting that can measure it. I look like I might be losing muscle as well, and ive gained a little fat.
All of this is incredibly frustrating. Im not sure exactly what to do. Ive been working out consistently for months and I hate to not continuing, but I also am not sure my body is able to react to the work properly when I’m not caught up on sleep.
Should I keep lifting weights? Should I switch off of weights altogether until sleep is better?
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