Do not overstrain, overtrain, overstress is something I have always preached except there are times when I forget to practise it.
Case in point my latest injury that manifested itself in clunky pain in the front of my left thigh last Friday when I was going about my Bulgarian split squat.
I felt my quadricep suddenly tighten and shoot a sharp pain in the front and side thigh area, a pain I'd never experienced before and I ignored it because it didn't linger on much, and soon when I had changed my focal point to other parts of my body in that workout circuit I forgot about it and the weekend went by smooth with some soreness that is hardly alarming and in fact that particular area didn't even ache.
Fast forward today, when I decided to finish my workout with a short burst of high-intensity cardio and was unable to lift myself up from a lunge because my left quad just seized up and near cramped, and I was down on the floor, unable to get up.
It hurt miserably and it was the same ache near ten times stronger in the same area feeling like someone had hit me with a brick or substituted those muscles with masonry.
I've been applying ice packs since and reevaluating all the wrong decisions in my head.
The regret is strong.
My decision to take it slow after a month-long relaxed routine didn't last long because a couple days after I began exercising with diligence I felt that it wasn't enough and that I could take and needed more, which is why each day I upped the ante and what should have been a gradual easing in was something of a rushed run in and instead of slowly incrementing the intensity of workouts and exercises I pushed to a point which at this stage was beyond my capacity.
Just goes on to show that I'm made of follies and I can't berate myself enough for being such a numbskull.
The message was given last week and I didn't take it.
Haven't I been through this once before with my shoulder?
I repeated the same ignorant foolish acts and hurt myself, putting myself out of any strenuous exercises for at least a month now.
This is just silly, gods help me, I'm limping now.
Case in point my latest injury that manifested itself in clunky pain in the front of my left thigh last Friday when I was going about my Bulgarian split squat.
I felt my quadricep suddenly tighten and shoot a sharp pain in the front and side thigh area, a pain I'd never experienced before and I ignored it because it didn't linger on much, and soon when I had changed my focal point to other parts of my body in that workout circuit I forgot about it and the weekend went by smooth with some soreness that is hardly alarming and in fact that particular area didn't even ache.
Fast forward today, when I decided to finish my workout with a short burst of high-intensity cardio and was unable to lift myself up from a lunge because my left quad just seized up and near cramped, and I was down on the floor, unable to get up.
It hurt miserably and it was the same ache near ten times stronger in the same area feeling like someone had hit me with a brick or substituted those muscles with masonry.
I've been applying ice packs since and reevaluating all the wrong decisions in my head.
The regret is strong.
My decision to take it slow after a month-long relaxed routine didn't last long because a couple days after I began exercising with diligence I felt that it wasn't enough and that I could take and needed more, which is why each day I upped the ante and what should have been a gradual easing in was something of a rushed run in and instead of slowly incrementing the intensity of workouts and exercises I pushed to a point which at this stage was beyond my capacity.
Just goes on to show that I'm made of follies and I can't berate myself enough for being such a numbskull.
The message was given last week and I didn't take it.
Haven't I been through this once before with my shoulder?
I repeated the same ignorant foolish acts and hurt myself, putting myself out of any strenuous exercises for at least a month now.
This is just silly, gods help me, I'm limping now.
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