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lifting_heavy_things2012-02-18 10:13 pm
coffeetime) wrote in lifting_heavy_things2012-02-18 10:13 pm
am I out of shape after only a week off (sick)?
Dang, what a week. First I hurt myself a week ago today at yoga class, attempting and then deciding to immediately back away from Urdhva Dhanurasana, which I realized was beyond what my shoulders can take...too late. I was so sore the next morning, I could barely turn my head, and my left shoulder was kind of stuck in a weird position. Fortunately I had physical therapy Monday and the ultrasound heat thingy took most of the pain and stiffness away.
Then I got a particularly horrid virus that's going around my office, a bad cold where the symptoms are extreme pain in the sinuses and the back of the throat, and then repeated explosive sneezing that sets off shocks of pain in the aforementioned. I had to stay home from work for two days.
With all of this going on, I opted not to work out AT ALL other than walking slowly on the treadmill Sunday, before I developed cold symptoms. So, today I finally felt good enough to go back to the gym. I took it pretty slow, lifted slightly less than I worked with last time, etc. Then tonight I went out for dinner with some friends. It's a cool night (below freezing) and so I was shivering when I got back in the car to go home...and as I drove, I could feel my thigh adductors tensing up and spasming! Bad for driving in my stick shift car, and I had to sit with my legs apart, which was creepy since I was wearing a skirt and tights. (But yay, it was dark out so nobody else saw, and I had no passengers.) My legs feel weird now, like they might decide to do that again. I didn't work extra hard today and my leg work consisted only of walking lunges with only 10 lb dumbbells, straight-legged deadlifts with 25 lbs, heel raises and toe raises on the leg press machine, and just a few one-legged deadlifts with reach, with empty hands because I was feeling tired already. I do all of these regularly. Did I just lose that much strength after only a week off? Or what else happened here?
Then I got a particularly horrid virus that's going around my office, a bad cold where the symptoms are extreme pain in the sinuses and the back of the throat, and then repeated explosive sneezing that sets off shocks of pain in the aforementioned. I had to stay home from work for two days.
With all of this going on, I opted not to work out AT ALL other than walking slowly on the treadmill Sunday, before I developed cold symptoms. So, today I finally felt good enough to go back to the gym. I took it pretty slow, lifted slightly less than I worked with last time, etc. Then tonight I went out for dinner with some friends. It's a cool night (below freezing) and so I was shivering when I got back in the car to go home...and as I drove, I could feel my thigh adductors tensing up and spasming! Bad for driving in my stick shift car, and I had to sit with my legs apart, which was creepy since I was wearing a skirt and tights. (But yay, it was dark out so nobody else saw, and I had no passengers.) My legs feel weird now, like they might decide to do that again. I didn't work extra hard today and my leg work consisted only of walking lunges with only 10 lb dumbbells, straight-legged deadlifts with 25 lbs, heel raises and toe raises on the leg press machine, and just a few one-legged deadlifts with reach, with empty hands because I was feeling tired already. I do all of these regularly. Did I just lose that much strength after only a week off? Or what else happened here?