Inspiration

I was back in the pool all week this week. The first two days, I suffered from really stiff back muscles. So, I kept the yardage low and swam slow. Yesterday, I was back at practice. I got there about 30 minutes early, and put an easy 1000 in to get warmed up. I completed the workout with a couple of substitutions just fine. I ended up with over 2500. I found that the longer I worked, the looser my back muscles became. My back feels great today! I'm glad that I'm finally to the other side of this. Now, hopefully, I can work on training for our first meet, which is November 21st. I plan on swimming the 100 and 50 back.

I got the link for this video this morning. It's just the inspiration I needed for my training.

Finally!!!

My back has been good all day today. As much as I want to go to the pool, I'm still taking it easy today. This is the first day in a week that I've been without pain. So, I'm trying to make myself behave. I've decided that if I'm still good tomorrow, that I'll hit the pool for a good, slow stretch swim. Hopefully, that won't be a problem. I've been CRAZY being out of the pool for an entire week!! I'm really looking forward to tomorrow.

Still Down In the Back

Two days later, and I'm still having back troubles. I am feeling a lot better, but my work chair is nothing but pure pain!! I'm starting to believe I may have a pinched nerve somewhere in there. I have that pinched, burning, stinging feeling right over my right hip. As much as I would like, I've decided to skip practice for today. There's no practice Saturday or next Tuesday, due to our fall break schedule. Hopefully in a week, I'll be ready to go. I'm going to the pool on Saturday and just float and let my legs hang down to see if it will relieve some of the pain. If it doesn't get better soon, I'll be headed to the doctor's office.

Ouch! My Back!!

With all of the work outs I do you can imagine my frustration at throwing my back out, while vacuuming at home!!! I'm SO FRUSTRATED!! My chair at work is absolute pain today. I've taken Aleve, and I've got a heating pad going. The outlook for practice this afternoon is NOT good!

I think it all started on Saturday. We worked on stroke technique in practice. I worked on my fly, nearly all of practice. My practice consisted of underwater dolphin kick drills, 3, 3, 3, one arm fly drills, and full on laps of fly. I noticed Saturday night that my back was tender and twingy but when I got up on Sunday it was gone. I spent the day doing regular stuff. I had no problems all day yesterday, until I vacuumed. I woke up in the middle of the night in pain. I think it may be time to hit the house and the muscle relaxers and let my back have some much needed rest.