Hello everyone!
As you may have read, yesterday I had a kick ass workout. Perhaps a little TOO kick ass, because today I have been barely able to move in any way without feeling like I got hit by a train.
Thinking about it, I came up with things I could have and SHOULD have done differently.
1. NEVER AGAIN do my cardio without my gel insoles. I took them out because they needed washing, worked out without them and I think that beat up my legs in a no-good way. My shins were KILLING me and that's never happened with these shoes, even when I was heavier. So, gel required!
2. Perhaps I should split my cardio into 2 30 minute sessions instead of banging out a whole mediocre hour at once. I made it through 30 minutes pretty well, but the last 30 was just sloppy and painful.
I had to take a day off of TAM today. I can barely get up and down the 5 steps to get into my place. There's "I had a good workout" sore and then there's "I waaay overdid it" sore. This was the latter.
The plan- eat a lot of protein (already done, haha), stretch with the P90X stretch dvd (did it once this morning, going to do it again before bed), take some ibuprofen and hit the hay. Tomorrow- going to try to hop back on the Tracy horse!
I hope you all had a great Saturday!
Oh no! You poor thing. One thing that used to help me with muscle soreness in my running days was a hot bath with Epsom salts. A hot bath with bubbles (if you can find one) is even better! I think it's great that you have some strategies for next time. Good luck!
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