{"id":211,"date":"2008-10-08T09:56:07","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T13:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noelfigart.com\/blog\/?p=211"},"modified":"2008-10-08T09:56:07","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T13:56:07","slug":"doing-what-you-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/08\/doing-what-you-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing What You Can"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was just a bad workout day.\u00a0 I slept in and had to talk myself into going to the gym.\u00a0 Okay, I did go<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 But I was tired and weak, and in pain.<\/p>\n

I think Fall is hell on a lot of people with chronic pain issues.\u00a0 My knee was really hurting yesterday.\u00a0 I thought I wasn’t going to be able to do my clean and presses without hurting it, so I was surprised to find that it seemed to make my knee feel better.\u00a0 Weird, but I’ll take that.<\/p>\n

However, I seem to have overchallenged my left shoulder.\u00a0 Ouch, ouch, ouch.\u00a0 Hadda remove some plates and do the sets for fewer reps.\u00a0 I hate doing that, but Rule One1<\/sup> and all.\u00a0 Injuring yourself so you’re sidelined from an excess of macho isn’t actually cool.\u00a0 Just means you broke Rule One.<\/p>\n

This is where doing what you can is important.\u00a0 Sure, sure, unless you’re paralyzed you can do something<\/em>.\u00a0 And yes, you should be doing something<\/em>.\u00a0 But no-one but you can judge what that something is.\u00a0 I remember when I had my ACL repair,\u00a0 I fretted a lot until I could get back in the pool.\u00a0 My PT told me that while it was great I wanted to get back to swimming and I was lucky it would be soon, what I really needed<\/em> was to focus on activating the muscles in the leg that’d been sliced open with a knife so that they’d work<\/em> again.\u00a0\u00a0 While it didn’t feel as cool as the workouts I was doing, it was indeed exercise, necessary exercise and it was what I could<\/em> do.<\/p>\n

For the record, I find stuff I know is gonna heal a lot easier to cope with.\u00a0 I knew I was going to get off the crutches.\u00a0 The arthritis stays, dammit.<\/p>\n

Sometimes doing what you can<\/em> feels discouraging, especially when “can” changes from day to day.\u00a0 You might feel like you’re making crap for progress.\u00a0 You might question whether or not you’re slacking or looking for excuses. You know, screw that.\u00a0 Unless you’re training for an athletic competition or something, sometimes showing up and going through the motions really is a good thing.<\/p>\n

Here’s a great post about doing what you can and working movement into your day from Living at ~400 Lbs<\/a>.\u00a0 She changed her commute to get herself walking more.<\/p>\n

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1<\/sup>Don’t be a fucking idiot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today was just a bad workout day.\u00a0 I slept in and had to talk myself into going to the gym.\u00a0 Okay, I did go.\u00a0\u00a0 But I was tired and weak, and in pain. I think Fall is hell on a lot of people with chronic pain issues.\u00a0 My knee was really hurting yesterday.\u00a0 I thought … <\/p>\n

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