Training week 8As predicted, week 8 was a whole lot of resting to recover from my injuries. It's infuriating to be laid up like this, after working so hard toward consistency and making exercise such a regular part of life. I've been feeling frustrated all week, like I'm going to jump out of my skin if I don't get back to exercising soon. Fortunately, I seem to be mostly healed now! In week 9 I'll be picking my exercise habit up again, with 30 minutes minimum on the elliptical every day.
Being injured and forced to rest has given me some thinking time, though. I've been able to re-organize more and more of my home, moving a piece at a time into the right place and brainstorming what furniture or storage pieces I should buy to maximize the space that I have. I'm really excited about getting all of this organized and optimized!
To avoid injury, I'm also going to return to the 5 & 1 program from Medifast - which is also how I lost the initial 80 pounds. I'll be staying strictly on this program for two months, limiting my exercise so I don't make the whole thing harder for myself, and then I'll transition back to a diet that will better serve a training schedule. I'll be training through the holidays, and hopefully I won't need to return to strictly following 5&1 again. I think my injury was largely a result of my body not being ready to handle the distance over time while carrying my weight. If everything goes according to plan, I'll drop another 20-40 pounds in the next two months, and then my training will be much less stressful on my body!
Overall, I'm not happy about having to rest for a week to recover from my overuse injuries. But I do see how it's been good for me, and given me opportunity to reflect, re-calibrate, and prepare to re-launch!
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