Wednesday, February 18, 2015
A Big Weakling
It's been 25 days since I hurt myself.....and I'm finally being able to start doing some upper-body workouts at the gym. I still can't lift nearly the weight that I'm used to because of two things: 1-After not being able to lift for 25 days I'm weak and 2- If I go too heavy I start to feel it again in my back. I'm hoping to get back up to weight quickly. It's kind of brought me back to the feeling of being in the gym when I first started lifting weights...skinny guy lifting little weights, except I'm more muscular now but lifting little weights. Self esteem killer right there. Stay positive......keep you head up......keep your head up.
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
No Lifting...Now What?
The goal of this blog was to be real and raw with you...so here you go. I'm beyond frustrated right now. The gym is a place I love to be. It's the place where I can be away and process through all the thoughts in my head; put my headphones in and tune out everything else. It's where I go to help de-stress. I've been going at it for so long now, its part of me. Weightlifting or doing cardio is my activity.
With my recent back injury I can't be lifting in the gym, until I heal. I went to the doctor on Friday because the pain was not going away with pain meds and it was coming around to the front, so I was also tender and sore just under my pec muscle. The doctor did not believe I had broken a rib based upon my recollection of the injury or the symptoms I experienced afterward. She instead believes I tore, pulled, did some kind of injury to a major back muscle when I fell and that I have been experience muscle tightness and severe muscle spasms since. What happens now...the same thing as if I would have broken a rib, let it heal on its own. Keep taking pain meds and she prescribed a muscle relaxer for me which has really been helping. But if I move just the right way I can feel that muscle go into a spasm and it hurts. The worst is when I sneeze- that brings about an intense amount of pain which last a few minutes in which I can not move or barely breathe.
So obviously I can't do any kind of lifting in the gym that uses that back muscle- if you have ever done any kind of lifting you know that you use your back muscles in a lot of lifts even if it's being used as a secondary muscle or to help stabilize your core. That means a huge block to my training. So frustrated and angry. But to be able to lift again I have to let it heal completely- I'm going to have to be patient. I think I may venture to the gym sometimes this week and see if I can find something that I can do where my back it completely stable and I'm not using any of those muscles...most likely will mean that I'm doing a lot of leg stuff. Ahhh, just so disappointing.
With my recent back injury I can't be lifting in the gym, until I heal. I went to the doctor on Friday because the pain was not going away with pain meds and it was coming around to the front, so I was also tender and sore just under my pec muscle. The doctor did not believe I had broken a rib based upon my recollection of the injury or the symptoms I experienced afterward. She instead believes I tore, pulled, did some kind of injury to a major back muscle when I fell and that I have been experience muscle tightness and severe muscle spasms since. What happens now...the same thing as if I would have broken a rib, let it heal on its own. Keep taking pain meds and she prescribed a muscle relaxer for me which has really been helping. But if I move just the right way I can feel that muscle go into a spasm and it hurts. The worst is when I sneeze- that brings about an intense amount of pain which last a few minutes in which I can not move or barely breathe.
(Experiencing pain in the Infraspinatus, Teres Minor, and Teres Major region)
So obviously I can't do any kind of lifting in the gym that uses that back muscle- if you have ever done any kind of lifting you know that you use your back muscles in a lot of lifts even if it's being used as a secondary muscle or to help stabilize your core. That means a huge block to my training. So frustrated and angry. But to be able to lift again I have to let it heal completely- I'm going to have to be patient. I think I may venture to the gym sometimes this week and see if I can find something that I can do where my back it completely stable and I'm not using any of those muscles...most likely will mean that I'm doing a lot of leg stuff. Ahhh, just so disappointing.
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