Friday I woke up and it felt as if I slept on my shoulder wrong. As the day went on, I kept wiggling and trying to move it around, it just felt like something was out of place. Then I started getting these weird spasms across my upper back on the side of the shoulder in question that would take my breath away, and make me tense up in pain. It was annoying, and I started wondering if I would need a chiropractic appointment (I've never been!).
I rolled around on the floor in my cubicle trying to get things worked out. I hung from doorway jams around the office. While the stretches felt good during, as soon as I would move back to walking/standing, the spasms would hit. I powered through the rest of my day, and was unsure how I'd feel carrying my son around, or how I was going to get in my scheduled workout that evening. We were also headed out of town for the weekend, and I didn't want to be sitting in a car for 4 hours feeling like this!
After the rendezvous with the hubs to pass off the kiddo, I headed home, still in random pain. As soon as I was home, I took two advil, and went about normal after work activities- grocery shopping, picking up the house, playing with the baby, making dinner, packing for the trip, changing diapers, laundry, listening to tv in the background...I looked at my workout schedule, and I had my benchmark workout scheduled- 5min as many burpees as possible, rest 2 minutes, then repeat- 5min as many burpees as possible. The advil was definitely helping, but I wasn't sure if I could do a burpee.
I waited until the kiddo was asleep (6:30p) and changed into workout clothes. I set a mat down on the living room floor, set a timer for 5 minutes, and got my burpee on. No pain. I was moving slow, but no pain. The 5 minutes went quick. The rest time went SUPER quick. I was determined to get at least one more burpee in my second set. Not only did I get one more, I got 8 more! I think I should have warmed up first. The second set, I was in a good groove, and really pushing myself. The best part? Afterwards? NO PAIN. Gone.
So, that settles it. Burpees cure ALL.
Our hotel over the weekend had a pool, so I used that as an opportunity to test my swimming in preparation for the sprint tri. The hotel pool was tiny, but large enough to get a few solid strokes in before having to turn around. My first couple of laps were rusty, I forgot that I like to breathe every 2 strokes on the same side instead of 3 switching sides. I also forgot how much I hate getting water in my ears. But. BUUUUUTTTT...I fell back into a groove, remembered all my youth swim lesson instructions and was able to swim freestyle for 10 minutes? without stopping my first time in a lap pool in 6 years. I could have kept going longer, but I was kinda skeeved out by the hotel pool, and I was getting bored since the pool was so small. Petty, I know. However, my main mission was to just get in a pool and see how it went. Tomorrow I will be heading to a public pool here for a real swim, in a 25m pool, etc.
Holding at the same weight this week, no change. I have nothing more to say about that.
I love the image of you rolling around on the ground in your cubicle or hanging in doorways. Glad you got it worked out, who would have thought Burpees would do it, I loathe them.
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