What I did on my Easter holidays
Apr. 27th, 2011 06:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenayI had a lovely Easter weekend and felt fantastic all the way through.
Obviously mother nature looked and that and laughed, because I now have a trapped nerve/muscle spasm right between my shoulder blades. I didn't do anything, I swear! I was just sitting at my desk this morning, shifted and got blind-sided by pain. Now I'm having to do lots of stretching and moving every few minutes just to stop my upper body seizing up completely. I did this two years ago and just had to wait it out. Ugh.
If it seizes up overnight, I can easily see myself calling in sick tomorrow seeing as the last time, it took me over forty minutes just to get out of bad on the first day.
Still, lovely weekend. Lots of reading, baking, relaxing and enjoying myself. On Monday, I took a vacation day to make a four-day weekend, which meant that I was free for coffee at the last minute with a friend that I hadn't seen in ages. Lovely. I made hot cross buns, which came out beautifully, and a chocolate cheesecakes that's a visual disaster but tastes wonderful. There were many books consumed and they were all enjoyable. My TV wasn't on much, but I did watch a couple of daft murder mysteries and there might have been some Doctor Who...
I even did some kind of work out every day. I'm trying to vary aerobic-y type things with strength training/yoga type things, but did quite a lot of the more strenuous aerobic-y stuff over the weekend than I normally do. It's nice to feel myself getting stronger and I can tell my stamina is improving. I can now do the 20 minute Zumba work-outs with enough energy/puff left for a couple of Wii Fit things afterwards.
And on Monday, I managed the thing that defeated me a year ago. I did an Island Lap on the Wii running game. 10 minutes of steady running, something that utterly killed me a year ago, and I managed it even after doing a few other aerobic-y things. Yesterday I did it again, just to prove that I could. It's nice to have the fitness levels to do that kind of stuff without keeling over. After all, nearly three years ago I climbed Snowdon. I want to be that person again. I've missed her.
I'm hoping that the fabulous trapped nerve/muscle spasm/whatever is not my body's way of telling me to slow down. Or my body's way of punishing me for doing aerobics rather than yoga for a couple of days. Tonight may have to be a no-exercise, heat-pads and warm bath night. Or maybe just some very gentle yoga-ish stuff followed by heat pads and a warm bath.
The good thing is that I've been thinking that I'm coming down with a cold, which would suck but also be a sign that my immune system is normalizing a bit rather than being completely hyper-active. Nope, no cold. Given the choice between back pain and a cold, though, I think that I'd take the cold. At least they're predictable and don't cause lock-ups!
Obviously mother nature looked and that and laughed, because I now have a trapped nerve/muscle spasm right between my shoulder blades. I didn't do anything, I swear! I was just sitting at my desk this morning, shifted and got blind-sided by pain. Now I'm having to do lots of stretching and moving every few minutes just to stop my upper body seizing up completely. I did this two years ago and just had to wait it out. Ugh.
If it seizes up overnight, I can easily see myself calling in sick tomorrow seeing as the last time, it took me over forty minutes just to get out of bad on the first day.
Still, lovely weekend. Lots of reading, baking, relaxing and enjoying myself. On Monday, I took a vacation day to make a four-day weekend, which meant that I was free for coffee at the last minute with a friend that I hadn't seen in ages. Lovely. I made hot cross buns, which came out beautifully, and a chocolate cheesecakes that's a visual disaster but tastes wonderful. There were many books consumed and they were all enjoyable. My TV wasn't on much, but I did watch a couple of daft murder mysteries and there might have been some Doctor Who...
I even did some kind of work out every day. I'm trying to vary aerobic-y type things with strength training/yoga type things, but did quite a lot of the more strenuous aerobic-y stuff over the weekend than I normally do. It's nice to feel myself getting stronger and I can tell my stamina is improving. I can now do the 20 minute Zumba work-outs with enough energy/puff left for a couple of Wii Fit things afterwards.
And on Monday, I managed the thing that defeated me a year ago. I did an Island Lap on the Wii running game. 10 minutes of steady running, something that utterly killed me a year ago, and I managed it even after doing a few other aerobic-y things. Yesterday I did it again, just to prove that I could. It's nice to have the fitness levels to do that kind of stuff without keeling over. After all, nearly three years ago I climbed Snowdon. I want to be that person again. I've missed her.
I'm hoping that the fabulous trapped nerve/muscle spasm/whatever is not my body's way of telling me to slow down. Or my body's way of punishing me for doing aerobics rather than yoga for a couple of days. Tonight may have to be a no-exercise, heat-pads and warm bath night. Or maybe just some very gentle yoga-ish stuff followed by heat pads and a warm bath.
The good thing is that I've been thinking that I'm coming down with a cold, which would suck but also be a sign that my immune system is normalizing a bit rather than being completely hyper-active. Nope, no cold. Given the choice between back pain and a cold, though, I think that I'd take the cold. At least they're predictable and don't cause lock-ups!
