I hate re-habbing after an illness or injury, I really do.<\/p>\n
Thing is, I wind up having to do it from time to time.\u00a0 Last year this time, I was flying high from being allowed to walk<\/em> after an ACL and medial meniscus repair.\u00a0\u00a0 God, being able to go where I wanted without the crutches felt so damn good, especially after the tedium of the endless leg strengthening exercises I had to do every damn hour.\u00a0 I’m lazy.\u00a0 Gimme a good hour in the weight room three times a week any time over that<\/em> nonsense!<\/p>\n I’m rehabbing right now.\u00a0 I had the flu last week and didn’t work out because, well…<\/p>\n The flu?\u00a0 Not “bad cold” but the flu<\/em>?\u00a0 You go down and you stay down until you can get up without feeling dizzy.\u00a0 If you can <\/em>work out, it’s probably a nasty cold.\u00a0 The flu knocks you on your ass.<\/p>\n I was able to swim half a mile Saturday.\u00a0 That’s okay.<\/p>\n I swam 1000 today.\u00a0\u00a0 Wednesday, it’ll be 1100, and on until I’m up to a mile again.\u00a0 Yes, I’m rehabbing a little slow, but I’m weaker than American coffee right now.\u00a0 I could beat myself into the ground, but I’m not going to.\u00a0 If I were training for something specific I’d consider it.\u00a0 If my energy levels bounce back sooner, why, I’ll be swimming that mile sooner.\u00a0 That’s okay, too.<\/p>\n The only serious thing I’m doing is making sure I push myself some<\/em> at each workout — enough so I get a benefit, but not so much so I’ll hate it and quit.\u00a0 It’s the not quitting part that’s important.\u00a0 It’s the not letting a break in routine cause my natural sedentary tendecies to win out and let me get depressed and weak and ill again.\u00a0 It’s real easy for me to talk myself into not working out, I’m sorry to say.<\/p>\n I know there are plenty of people who want to be all hard core.\u00a0 That’s cool.\u00a0 They should, and enjoy it.\u00a0 But you don’t have<\/em> to do that to get fit.\u00a0 You just have to be consistent and push yourself some<\/em> more each time — not necessarily a whole lot, but some. I’ve got to work on a project that’s due next Monday.\u00a0 It’s going really well.\u00a0\u00a0 I was reviewing it and realized I’d put more into it than I thought I had.\u00a0 This made me really happy!\u00a0 So, it’s really a matter of writing a section, getting some pics for it, then going over it with my Editor Eye.<\/p>\n Heh… It’s amazing how a few workouts improve the mood.\u00a0\u00a0 If I owned a drug company, I swear I’d do everything in my power to discourage working out, ’cause it’d likely put me out of business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I hate re-habbing after an illness or injury, I really do. Thing is, I wind up having to do it from time to time.\u00a0 Last year this time, I was flying high from being allowed to walk after an ACL and medial meniscus repair.\u00a0\u00a0 God, being able to go where I wanted without the crutches … <\/p>\n
\nI’m trying to decide what the weights should look like tomorrow.\u00a0 I know I won’t be able to do what I’d been doing before I got sick, but I’ve no idea how much I really should scale back.\u00a0 I’m swimming half the distance, but I don’t think I really need to go back to half the weight I’d been using.<\/p>\n