I am rowing 45 minutes in zone 2 every day and have observed that my Stress level is between Medium and High thereafter, for many hours, essentially for the rest of the day and sometimes part of the night. Stress if a very important factor in Sleep score, so to minimise the risk of having this Stress extend into the night and get sh*t sleep scores, I do my cardio early in the morning at 8am. But even so, the Stress sometimes extends until the following night. See below an example.
My question is relatively simple: is this a sure sign that I am overtraining ? These sessions are not hard. Well, they're zone 2 sessions so they're not supposed to be hard anyway.
ovekvam if you read this, any chance you could take a look at your Stress level patterns after exercising and give me a sense of what you have at your end ? Do you have an opinion about if I should do something about it ?
I know that other factors may impact Stress, but the reasons why I believe it is mainly driven by my cardio sessions is because first, high levels of Stress appear just after I exercise, and second, on Sundays, which are my resting days, my Stress level is largely into the blue. Let me post a screenshot of yesterday's resting day as an example.
Thank you.
