Still living guilt free. It is a training day and since I have a shoulder issue we decided to do leg day. Listen…I love leg day. But how many leg days can you do before you burn out your legs. Also, I was starting to enjoy upper body day, feeling myself get stronger, and definitely pulling more wight. I could feel my back muscles growing (underneath my fluffy layer). For the past month we have been taking it easy on my shoulders, but we were finding ways to work my back that didn’t bother me.
How did I get this injury? I promise it wasn’t from working out. So many people are afraid of getting injured working out. While that is a possibility, especially for beginners that may not be using correct form, or weights that are too heavy, that is not what happened to me. For my birthday, my husband got me season passes to Noah’s Ark (America’s Largest Waterpark…at least I think that’s still true). We went many times. One time we were going down one of the bigger slides, I think it was the Congo Bongo, that can seat up to 5 riders. For a change, I actually went down face first. I was holding the handles on top of the raft versus the handles that were on the seat part. As we hit the pool at the bottom of the slide, I launched forward. Because I was holding on, I stayed safely in the raft, but because I was holding on up top, pressure was put on my shoulder joint. I thought nothing of it, it hurt a little, but I figured it would pass.
I am nowhere near being a spring chicken. I have had more than my fair share of injuries. My job is physically demanding. With all of that, I definitely have a few aches and pains. I thought this would be just like the others, a few days of discomfort and then it would be better and I would be back to pushing and pulling heavy(ish) weights in the gym. This has definitely taken longer than I expected.
So for today….LEG DAY! In the spirit of keeping it fun, Bryce said “German volume training” which is typically 10 sets of 10 reps. Instead we did 4 sets of 25. When doing higher reps, the weight decreases. My leg press instead of being 225ish became more around 135, for the first set and then 90 (plus the weight of the machine) for the next 3. I felt it. My quads were shaking.
Then we moved along to a superset of hip thrusts and hamstring curls. 25 hip thrusts are a booty burner. It was a relief to make it to 25 and then get to do hamstring curls. By the third set of hip thrusts, I would position myself to start and my cheeks would cramp. I was never so grateful to be done with hip thrusts. I made it through my 4 sets of 25 reps and said good riddance. My mini stretch session after was definitely needed and felt amazing.
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