[what_was_it]

> exercise-induced fatigue impairs complex cognitive tasks

Apparently your study is strictly about cardio.

Heavier compound lifts can surely knock me out for 30 minutes to 2 hours. I don't know how in the heck people train in the mornings. But a lot of this is because they are complex cognitive tasks.

[byproxy]

Mornings (~6am), I often walk ~40min to my gym, do heavy compound lifts (~1hr total with ~2-3min rest between sets), walk ~40min back, and I tend to feel fine by the time I get back home. It's usually at the end of the day where the fatigue seems to catch up to me.

[asdff]

You’ve built up endurance already. The hard part of working out is getting to the point you got of not being completely sore for days after a single workout. I think that puts a lot of people off from consistent routines. I remember the first two weeks of track season no one could walk up stairs we were getting worked so hard, puking after ladder workouts 5 days a week. Eventually that petered out over the season but that initial hump from insufficient activity to being active is massive, and I don’t think a lot of us on the team would have surmounted it without essentially peer pressure and mutual support in suffering.

[byproxy]

Oh, yea, for sure. One thing that keeps me consistent is that I know what happens when I take > 1 week off (which is sometimes unavoidable) and attempt to get back into it. DOMS⁰ for days.

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0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_onset_muscle_soreness