Cold weather sucks

Do you know what sucks about this unseasonal cold snap? The fact that it makes it very difficult to tell if my aches and pains are weather related or exercise related!!!

Yesterday I was rather uncomfortable. I spent a lot of the day with heat packs, my massage ball, and stretching. I was fine if I was at home but as soon as I ventured out into the cold air, I hurt. So it is hard to tell how much of it was DOM's (after Thursday's session) or weather related!

Today is colder again (seriously, did someone forget to tell the weather man it is suppose to be SUMMER?!) and I am still sore. A bit more catchy today than yesterday which suggests it is more weather related. Regardless, I am trying to keep the stiffness at bay.

But today, I still did some training. Not much and certainly nothing like I was doing before this injury, in fact I feel like I'm back at square 1. But it's a step in the right direction anyway.

I spent 25 min on the treadmill varying my speed between 5.4 and 6.0 Km per hr. The incline between 0 and 3. The higher the incline and the faster the speed, the more the pain. I'm really struggling to get control of this hip when I'm walking fast and up hill. But I will keep working at it. I know I can regain it. What annoys me more is that it feels like when I first started training nearly two years ago; when I couldn't last more than 15 minutes on the treadmill because I was so unfit. Now, I struggle to spend time on the treadmill because of injury. And it's devastating! But I WILL get there!!!

After the treadmill, I did some arm and leg extensions which was unusually difficult. I really struggled to hold my core when swapping sides. And it was annoyingly more difficult to engage my core when I pushed through the heel as opposed to pushing through the toes. Something to keep working on!

I did the Plank as well to help my core. My times weren't anything to write home about. In fact, they were probably amongst my worst! But I've progressed to doing them on my toes again which is brilliant!!! Improvement! HOORAY!!!

I'm a little concerned about not having PT for almost a month due to Christmas and Dale being away. But I have a plan. I mean, we all know I have the drive to stick with it. It's my inability to control myself that is the issue! But, it's time to get this weight off and give myself a good chance of being pain free over Winter. And hopefully get fit enough to have a pregnancy free of back issues sometime in the near future!

So I need to have an exercise plan in place that is not purely cardio. Strength and resistance training is extroidinarily important to weight loss and fitness. Muscle burns more than twice the amount of calories than fat AND helps to keep us toned. Muscles also help to keep our skeletal system in check and, for someone like me, that is vital. Over the next few weeks, I will combine cardiovascular and home resistance training WITHOUT the use of weights. I'm going to use my own body and the equipment I already have; resistance bands, thera bands, TRX band, treadmill, boxing bag and gloves, yoga mat. Hopefully I will see some improvement!