Son newly 16 decided to try another sport for the winter season. The conditoning is fairly intense lots of sprinting and weight training 2 1/2 to 3 hours a day 5-6x days. He's made good progress over the past month but the workouts are grueling.
He's athletic but used to training for baseball not other sports.
Left to his own devices he tends to train hard in spurts and then every few weeks or month he crashes hard needs extra sleep or gets a little sick and can miss a day or two of school. He's taking creatine, a multi vitamin and eats alot of protein. He probably does eat too much sugar. We try to encourage sleeping as much as possible but sometimes I find him wandering around the house late at night. So he probably getting 7 hours a night on weekdays.
It's like he either goes full throttle or he's flat on his back exhausted.
Any tips to help with recovery? He's put on nearly 20 lbs of muscle this year so I know alot is changing inside his body. Is this type of exhaustion normal for an athlete?
He's a pretty healthy kid and he's not overweight.
Any tips to help with recovery?
