Let me first highlight the last few days so that what I say today will make sense.
Wednesday:
After I got off work that morning, I was very excited to start my workout. (I was excited because after it was over, my husband and I were planning to do a few things that day. One of which was to go to Murray to check out Traveling Pants Consignment Shop.) Anyway, about half way through my workout, I noticed that my left calf was starting to hurt a little. I tried to ease up on some of the moves so that it wouldn’t hurt as much but that was to no avail. It continued to hurt and I felt my heart rate getting slower and slower because I just couldn’t do any of the moves. By the time 45 minutes of the workout had passed, I was in such pain and my heart rate had gone down so much that I decided to call it quits. I skipped to the Cool Down, took a shower, and then wrapped my calf with ACE. It seemed to help a little bit. (Now, whenever I walk, I can feel a slight tinge of pain. L)
By the way, we never ended up making it to Murray on Wednesday. We had so much to do with the other stuff that we simply didn’t have enough time to drive an hour away and then get back in time for PJ to be on time for work. So, I settled with going home and watching PJ play Batman: Arkham Asylum while I rested on the bed with ACE. Once he left, I took ACE off and then took a nice three hour nap and my leg felt loads better once I woke up.
For the rest of the evening, I deep cleaned the house, did the laundry, and baked some more banana cookies. I woke up at 6:00 pm and was a busy little bee up until about 12:30 am. Through all that time, my leg didn’t give me any trouble. Yay!
When I went to bed, I put ACE back on just to make sure everything was alright.
Thursday:
Out of all 45 days of Insanity, this had been absolute worst!! I woke up with the most horrible back pain I’d ever experience in my life!! When I sat up, it worsened and upon standing, it was like someone was stabbing me in the back!! I hobbled into the kitchen to get my water for my workout and just bending down was unimaginable!! It nearly took my breath away!! I thought to myself: “Exercising will hopefully loosen my body up and make my back not hurt as much.” So, I proceeded to the living room and pushed “play.”
The workout was alright. It was the week’s recovery day and I was kind of happy that I didn’t have to do any intense stuff. I was still in pain but it seemed to fade a little throughout the workout. Once it was over, I showered and in anticipation, woke PJ up so we could finally go to Murray.
I drove to Murray and tried my absolute best to be as comfortable as possible. I was in some pain but it was not as bad as when I woke up. Most of it seemed to dissipate when we arrived at the consignment shop!! (I wasn’t focused on it, that’s why.)
We got home from the consignment shop and PJ played Batman some more while I half watched while putting up my new treasures. I guess I had become used to the back pain and it wasn’t as hard to move around this time. Once all the clothes were hung, I sat down and ate some Garlic, Parmesan and Herb Pita chips with Garlic Hummus. It was very yummy, but intense on the breath, so I popped in some mint gum and a few minutes later, took PJ to work.
After taking PJ to work, I noticed that because of the gum, I had gotten a really bad headache. (I don’t chew gum much for this reason.)I spit it out and hoped that the pain would lessen a little. I went to the few places that I had to go and then it was home for me.
Exhausted, hurt and head throbbing, I decided to do a Pinterest project while listening to ‘As Long As You Love Me,’ by The Biebs, over and over. Needless to say, the blaring music and the constantly moving did not do anything for my headache. It worsened and once I was finished, I turned off the music, cleaned up the project stuff, turned off the lights and tried to rest until PJ had to be picked up.
Today:
I woke up this morning with back pain again! (Getting so tired of being hurt!!) So, I opted out of working out today because I didn’t want to hurt my body more. So, I took a nap until it was time for me to get ready for work. Thankfully, I felt much better. I’m still experiencing some back pain but nowhere near as close to what it’s been the like the last few days.
I am so ready for a break from all this pain!! I might have to take a few days off in order to rest, but it’s a lot better than working out and wearing out my body.
Signing Out,
It’s Possible!!
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