Saturday, November 3, 2007

I'm actually feeling the pain

I worked out to a tape yesterday and today I'm in pain. REAL pain. The muscles in the middle of my back are on fire. I have to stand straight up for any relief.

It started hurting this afternoon. I was this morning. I did about 6 loads of laundry. I cleaned the bathrooms. I vacuumed downstairs. We even went to the park for about an hour with the kids. But after lunch I started to feel icky. I laid down for a nap, but when I woke up I felt stiff and in pain.

For the past few hours I've been a trooper and just handling it. But now that it's after dinner? I'm going to dig out the heating pad and lay out for 20 minutes. I have got to get these muscles to relax and get some additional circulation to them. Hopefully that'll get the "healing" kick-started.

But what's nice? It's been 3 weeks of working out and TODAY is the first day that I've felt anything above a comfortable ache. I guess doing the weights with the full DVD yesterday was too much. I'd been doing that particular DVD without any weights for the last 2 weeks, so those weights got me good.

And the thing is? Even though I'm in some pain now? I know that once those muscles feel better that those muscles are going to be stronger. This morning, I actually noticed today when I was putting lotion on my upper legs that my hamstrings were getting defined. I was standing in the bathroom and I put my foot on the sink counter and saw my hamstring in the mirror. There were those vertical long indentations on both sides of that ligament. I haven't seen that definition in AGES!

So, in conclusion, even though I'm pain....I know I'm getting stronger and more physically fit. YEAH!

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It's Sunday morning and I feel loads better. It doesn't hurt to twist to the left or the right. I'm able to bend. Halleluia! I actually did two heating pad treatments last night. One after my post. Then an hour later after my shower I laid out again. Then a full night of sleep? I'm back to normal. Whew!

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