Heeding the warning

I've been a little lax in my blogging... apologies for that! But I do assure you that I haven't been lax with my training!

Whilst I haven't been as active as I'd like, I certainly have been training! I've had a couple of really good sessions along side some mediocre ones. I have even returned to boxing at home! Oh how I love to box!

I subscribe to the thinking that regardless of what's going on, I need to train at least every 2 to 3 days otherwise I my muscles freeze up, I get sore, and I get grumpy! Even if it's a light session, I NEED to do something!

I've been noticing improvements each session, like being able to hold the plank for longer on my toes, not feeling as fatigued as early, not feeling as tight in my back at the end of a session, being able to increase my speed on the treadmill. All little things that build into big things!

My downfall though, is that without Dale to keep me in check, I've been getting a little too adventurous. I've been pushing a little TOO hard... and I'm feeling it. The last few nights have been hell in bed. The pain in my glutes is feril. Waking in the morning is not fun. Yesterday was an iffy day despite stretching. I've been stretching like a mad woman! I vowed not to train yesterday but, after dinner, I found myself pulling on my gym clothes and heading for the treadmill. I did manage to restrain myself to only doing treadmill and stretching - none of the other stuff I normally do!

Despite everything I'm doing, I feel like my fitness is going backward; that the weight is creeping back on; that it is all pointless. And I feel like my back isn't coping. I'm doing so many strengthening exercises but none of it feels like it is working at the moment. It's very disheartening. I'm looking forward to having Logan back to iron out the creases and Dale being back to put me through my paces safely!

In desperation of pain yesterday, I played around with my stretches a little. I have my fail safe ones and I have my "for when it's bad" ones. Nothing has been helping with my glutes this week. So I tried a few different things and found the most (gloriously) painful stretch! It turns out that a lot of my pain in my glutes has been coming from my ITB (the muscles down the side of the leg). MY GOD IT HURT! But I immediately felt better! I was still tight in the back this morning but not AS tight. And the pain I had getting up was purely DOM's. I'm thrilled! So off I went to the pool with DH and DD to losen things some more. HEAVEN!

Now, several hours later, I feel much better. I'm heeding to the warning my body has sent and will back off a little until Logan is back (next week) and then get back into things again. Instead of the treadmill, I'll go for walks around my area. In fact, I'm taking DD for a ride on her bike after dinner! Can't wait!