To be sore or not to be sore, that is the question?
I think I was dropped on my head as a child! What was I thinking?!
After Tuesdays arm workout, I come home and have the ‘brilliant’ idea to go out snowmobiling. Around this area you have to muscle the machine around trees, around turns, and over waterholes… (plus, riding without kids on the back we tend to ride a little harder). Lets just say that it was another arm workout that lasted 3 hours. After we were done I was thinking ‘I’m not gonna be able to move my arms tomorrow, good thing it’s Wednesday to recover’.
Well, Wednesday came and my arms felt great! I could not say the same for my lower back, around my kidneys, both sides, what’s up with that? Was it the Tuesday highpulls? I mention this to my husband and he feels my pain… literally, he feels the same pain in his back. Duh! it’s from bouncing and jouncing over all the bumps from snowmobiling. I spent the day trying to stretch my aches and pains on Wednesday. I woke this morning feeling even worse. I was trying to back out of going to Bootcamp until my husband told me to ‘suck it up’, so off I went.I’m finally to the point of my story… when is it a good sore versus a bad sore? For me personally, a good sore is one that hurts before I enter Bootcamp and by the end of class, the soreness is gone. When it’s a sore that takes my breathe away and brings tears to my eyes… that would be a bad sore. Today was a bad sore day and surprise ‘Testing… I mean, Achievement Day’.
I started class making sure Nancy knew my dilemna and just took it one exercise at a time. It was an ‘easy’ day for me as I gingerly went through the exercises to make sure I didn’t put more strain on the muscles in my back. I was able to do most of the exercises, pushups, squats, situps weren’t too bad, mountain climbers were one step at a time, squat thrusts pulled but didn’t hurt-much. However, by the time we got to chinups it was uncomfortable so I stopped, and the 100reps were ok until the starjumps so I stopped there too.
So why am I telling you all this… besides letting me whine?… I just want to remind everyone to listen to your body when you are sore. Determine if its a good sore or a bad sore. But to stress that if you have bad soreness make sure you tell Nancy and Dean so they can help you assess how to proceed in your workout, or to take the day off.
I’ll be back for more tomorrow… I don’t want to miss Fun Friday! (now do you see why I think I was dropped on my head as a child?!)
Blog you later
gretchen
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