Tag Archives: pain

the long haul. the long haul. the long haul. repeat.

Posted on by
Reply

I don’t know whether I just slept wrong, or whether I slightly pulled a muscle yesterday and it got much worse as I slept, but I have pretty serious muscle spasms in my shoulder and neck, shooting down my back….all on the right side. I’ve taken aspirin, rubbed it as deeply as I can, and I’ve been on a heating pad all day trying to relax it, but it’s still just awful.

My second thought, just one second after realizing that this had happened, was about today’s workout — how can I do it? Should I? Would it help, or hurt? As the day has progressed, and the pain hasn’t eased up one little bit (in fact, the spasming seems to be spreading), I got very frustrated and a little upset that I couldn’t do my workout at all. GODDAMMIT. I don’t want to interrupt the flow and rhythm I’m building. But I also don’t want to hurt myself, and I’m in this for the long haul so if I have to take today off that’s taking care of myself. And I’ll resume my flow and rhythm when the spasms stop.

Still. Boo.

pain and the first twinge of the no

Posted on by
2

Whatever muscles weren’t affected by the strength training workout were affected by yoga yesterday. I think yoga affected the muscles alongside the strength-trained muscles, at least that’s how it feels. I’m in just enough pain that it woke me up last night every time I moved. I didn’t sleep well at all, and moving around is painful.

When I got out of bed this morning (not when I woke up, which was at 3am), I thought maybe I wouldn’t do the strength training workout this morning, because I hurt. I don’t know if that’s a good decision, or a bad one. I think it’s a bad one; if I do the dynamic warm-ups and take care as I do the workout, I suspect it’ll help relieve some of the pain.

But here, at day 4 of this change, I encountered my first no. I cannot listen to that no.