April 13 & 14, Monday & Tuesday

“Rest is component of the program not a suspension of it.”   I just coined that today.

Monday was a scheduled day off leg work because of tired legs and budding injuries.  I tried another playing card workout but only passed half a deck once again. The card workout is pretty simple and kind of fun but harder than I thought it would be. The first one I did I included squats and lunges in the list of activities. That turned out to be an over reach which made me sore for two or three days. This time I did only upper body activities and core no legs. Today’s activities were push-up, crunch, leg overs, wall arms, and one of my anti head dropping exercises. The idea is to do the exercises in a cycle while turning over a card to indicate the number for each exercise. Once again I only got to 26 cards before I had to stop for fear of hurting myself. This is going to be a long term goal to get 52 cards for this set of exercises. I’m counting on this isolation to help me.

Today I did a block of movement that involved biking walking, walking the dog and running. I covered 6.1 miles but it took an hour and a half. Block of time was interrupted a number of times by activities relating to grown children, call from brother Wille, wife and puppy dog.  Throughout the hour and a half my body never got over the feeling of being very used and tired. It might just be that I need another day of rest to get my energy level back and allow for my budding injuries to heal. Rich Refi always reminds me to act as I tell my athletes they should act.  🙂 🙂 🙂

STATS – stable