Semi-Charmed Life

A Little More Weight, A Lot Less Gas

These past several weeks I have been gassing real hard in my gym. Even doing the simplest positional drills in class gets me huffing and puffing. The last half hour is absolutely brutal because it's free rolling for 30 minutes straight. It completely baffled me because I've been doing this since last June and my grappling cardio has never been this bad. I'm in relatively good shape and have not been doing anything differently.

I think I've finally figured it out though. These past few months I've slowly increased my caloric intake in an effort to gain some weight. In early August I weighed about 145-147lbs. I haven't been tracking my weight gain progress but I finally did last night and I came in at a whopping 160lbs. This might not sound like much of a gain in weight, but keep in mind that the heaviest I have ever been in my life was 155lbs, which was not very significant because it was all water weight from the creatine I was taking at the time.

I typically have a difficult time gaining weight and nearly always maintain a weight of 145lb, for better or for worse. So when I stepped on that scale last night, I was pretty shocked. Now, I am not 100% positive that this is the reason why I run out of gas so easily at the gym, but it seems the most likely. My guess is that my body is not used to this excess weight. I had no idea that gaining a little weight would affect me so drastically.

I hope my body slowly becomes accustomed to this added weight because it's making life miserable in the gym.