Well, should we start with the good or the bad? Guess I'll start with the bad so that I can then explain the good. After my major workouts yesterday I somehow strained something in my neck/shoulder area on the right side. The problem is I can't seem to find the point of the injury to try to work it out. Since I added in cardio abs yesterday, I think it happened somewhere with all the plank work we did. I was trying so hard to get my form right & tighten my abs that I might have overextended something in my shoulder. Ugh... I put my heated neck wrap on it & took Advil, but when I woke up this morning it still hurt. More Advil today & ice on it at lunchtime & the pain really wasn't any better. It doesn't hurt all the time, just when I move it certain directions. So I really focused on not using that arm as much as I could today & made my left arm the dominant arm.
Needless to say, when I got home today I was almost in tears because I was afraid I would have to stop Insanity. That's not an option in my book!! The first thing my dad said was "well, you might just have to stop the program". Um...NO!! I'm a grown woman & I know my body & what's too much, so for him to say that I feel is very unsupportive. It's like he doesn't understand what this program is doing for me & he just thinks it's crazy so I should just stop. Might not be what he's feeling, but that's how I take it!! Then my brother was here & I told him & he pretty much blew me off. So I came upstairs on the verge of tears because I was in some pain & I was getting no support. So what did I do?? I put on my workout clothes, and pressed play!! I knew Shaun T would be there for me as he always is, and I knew that I wouldn't do anything that would aggravate the injury.
The workout went pretty well. I'm still working on digging deep but I could tell today that I was using some of my attention on keeping an eye on my shoulder but I did as much as I could. And when we did exercises that didn't use your arms as much I really tried to push as hard as I could there. We did have to do some plank push-ups & that's where I think I hurt myself, so for those I did some girlie push-ups & then just took short rests.
So, it's been a mix of emotions for me today but I'm so glad I made it through my workout and I'm even more excited that I didn't have as much pain during the exercises as I was afraid I might have had. I have pure cardio & cardio abs tomorrow so I'll just have to take it real easy & not strain anything again. I really need to work on my abs, so if I have to skip some of the plank work I'll just put in some other abs exercises instead. Either way I'll keep moving!!
Thank you Shaun T for giving me the power inside to keep pressing play!! The thought of missing a day is not an option in my book!! Especially for injury! As long as all my parts are still attached I'm getting my Insanity on!! :) Hopefully my rest day on Sunday will help clear up whatever I did & I will be good to go for week 3!!!! My first updated fit test is coming up on Monday...how exciting!!!!
♥ Shaun T ♥
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