Hello Body! Nice to Meet You!

This is the third week my mother and I have been going to our new gym. We have been trying to go five days a week and making it four. Something always seems to come up once a week. So far that "something" has been me feeling ill.

When we joined the gym we were give two free sessions with one of their trainers. That's pretty typical for around here. My guy was great. He's a pro boxer very into fitness. I told him my story and he was amazed. Then he had me do 60 squats. 

Punching things is FUN!

I had on my knee brace to help support my larger, painful knee. So I thought all was good and I could do anything he told me to with zero problems. It went down a bit like this. We spent a lovely 45 minutes together with him taking me from machine to machine lifting between 40-20lbs. I pushed myself HARD and did it all. I was even rewarded with him declaring me "feisty" when I tried to jump the gun on a few seconds of rest to do more. That's my nature. I push. 

Also... I like impressing people. I enjoy finding my limits physically. And as I told him. "It feels good to have some pain that I'm causing. Not that's happening TO me and that I have no control over." The results? Basically my body heard me say that and went "You like pain lady? Here's some pain for you!" 

Uh oh. I over did it BIG TIME! I mean "want to scream just trying to sit down on the toilet" level of over doing it. 

At first I felt mad at the trainer for pushing me so hard. I mean, he SHOULD have known better, right? Wrong. The person who pushed so hard was me. I was the one who should have known better. I should have been listening to those pain signals and realized I was going to be in a world of trouble if I didn't reign it in. It's my body. It's me.

Not even the hot tub could save me from this poor choice.

In my defence, I'm still getting to know... well... me! And I'm naturally "feisty" and a limit pusher. I tend to go in whole hog, then pull back later. That's just my nature. I'm not a "dip my toe in the water" type of person. Hence that often leading to injury.

So here I am two days later still in a lot of pain. Last night before bed I took: 1 prescription muscle relaxer, 3 Ibuprophen, 2 Acetaminophen and when that didn't work finally a CBD/THC gummy. Then I was able to get to sleep. Lesson learned. I want to/need to get used to pulling back and listening more to my body signals.