Day 4

This day started off badly as the start which I defined as my 5am nap was again visited by an oversleep :(. These things really suck. Anyone who is out there who thinks "oh you slept more that should make you feel better"Your dead wrong. Oversleeping these naps makes you feel pretty shitty for at least 4 hours. I overslept this time because my phone became dislodged from my waistband while sleeping so I couldn't feel it vibrating. Now I have a third backup alarm that is the alarm clock I used to use to wake up. This thing gets ridiculously loud so no way I will be sleeping through it.

During the day I was tired because of the oversleeping until my 9 am nap. After this I felt pretty normal regular energy and attention still a little zombie but that is going away slowly. I had a spike in energy around 11am felt hyperactive almost, this passed in about 20 minutes. 1pm nap went normally though it was really hot in my car today. I came back in with just the meanest back sweat going on and one of the secretaries said "oh were you exercising on your coffee break, you must be really committed". I didn't want to be "no, I was just sleeping in my car instead of being at work" so naturally I lied and said "ya its all about commitment" ;).

The rest of the day I felt just like I would normally, until around 4 pm. I just seemed to crash at this point, my head started to bob at my computer and was having a really hard time staying awake. To combat this I googled some office yoga stretches and got a little 10minute Yoga break. After doing this it wasn't bad making it until the end of the work day. This was the first time that I really had a "crash" episode during the day though. Every once in a while I would get that very fatigued tired feeling at night but this was new territory.  

I went to Muay Thai again today, we just did some light training outside. I just did skipping and shadow boxing but also warmed up my legs with 50 kicks a leg. One thing that I found was that I have zero muscular endurance. 50 kicks a leg usually was a decent warmup but my hip flexor felt very exhausted today. As well I skipped probably a total of 30 minutes and my calfs were just burning and sore. When I got home I took a bath and just let my legs soak in the nice warm water as I knew they wouldn't really get any other recovery time.

Another strange thing was that while shadow boxing and just throwing techniques to the air I felt my left shoulder start to hurt. It felt a bit like I had moved it wrong and possibly pulled something. This pain was only there when I threw punches though so after coming home I never noticed it.

That night I wasn't tired as I feel the exercise helps me stay alert and awake but it was really hard to focus any particular task. For example I was trying to study mandarin, which is another one of the reasons I wanted the extra time that polyphasic sleep offers, but I just kept re-reading the same exercises with little improvement. I still feel its hard to make efficient use of my extra time, though I don't believe polyphasic sleep has has had any effect on the efficiency of my daytime hours.