Sometimes I find this so hard to do. For instance if you are sick and you still push yourself to workout or a big one is exercising through your injury. You know you should rest but you are so...addicted to exercise that you refuse to miss a day.
A few years ago I broke my ankle taking a step class. (This actually started my journey to become a fitness instructor). I began my training and almost exactly a year later I broke my same ankle again. A couple of years later, I was now teaching and I thought I broke it again, but it was just a bad sprain. You know what this crazy ass girl did?... I finished teaching the rest of my class on my badly sprained ankle and took myself out of teaching step for a month. Lesson learned...sort of.
For myself I KNOW I cannot run days in a row, my body doesn't work that way. I can exercise lots and for months on end but I cannot do the daily run. The other day I did my hill run, I had time the following day and I wanted to pump out 7-8K... it never happened. I ran about 1km and my right foot began to hurt so much. I walked for a bit, I stretched and picked up the pace again. I really wanted to get the run in. Than I was reflecting on my emails I recieved through the 1/2 marathon training. An email I got this week...overtraining...
I didn't think I was overtraining say for other runners, but for me I definitely was. I had to tell myself to stop, walk, and try again. I didn't want a real injury to occur and ruin my progress. It still ended up being a 40min walk. This was Thursday.
Today I opted to try something new, RPM. As an instructor, I am not allowed to take a bike if the room is full and in our area RPM is huge and always full. However, todays class is not normally full, sadly perhaps the instructor is not as fun as others. But for me today, it was good as I got to try this class. Honestly, it was boring for me. I probably needed Krista to kick my butt for me to enjoy it more :)
And no pain anywhere. I will do another long run on Sunday and hopefully my body understands that I actually did listen...this time :)
3 comments:
I suppose it's all your bodies own way of 'pushing back' when you try to over-exercise.... listening to it can be the hard part though! What we think we want and what our bodies want can be 2 totally different things!!!
The one thing I've learned over the years is to listen to your body!!!
Glad that you changed things up....
BTW...I would totally kick your butt (but in a good way of course!)
Take Care!!
I understand your pain. I wanted to do a practice half-marathon this weekend and my legs were just not having it. So I figured I should listen to my body and stayed home to have a family day with my baby and hubby and that was nice. But then Sunday I snuck a run in before our company arrived so I'm just as addicted as you are. :)
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