Bombshell Antics: Sometimes I just want to punch myself...

My body has been yelling at me. Or more like kicking me in the ~~ass~~ back - literally. Let's take it back to Monday. Monday was the beginning of Phase 3 of Livefit Trainer. The workout was intense. I did 135 smith machine squats o_O and 45 jump squats. Well while doing the smith machines squats I did feel my back hurting a little but I charged it to it just being sore from a back workout not that I may be lifting to much.

Turns out I am pretty sure I lifted too much. Monday afternoon my back started hurting. It didn't click then why but I soaked in some epson salt and it felt better. Not great but better. I continued on with my week. However, I woke up Wednesday and my knees and right foot (that foot is always bothering me - weakling of the pair lol) was aching me so I decided best thing was to not workout that day and rest and ice up. So I did and I also used a tennis ball to massage any tight muscles in the arch of my feet. I need to do that more often! Thursday I woke up feeling better but my foot still wasn't the best so I didn't do sprints for my cardio that day, I just did weight training. Figured I'd make up the sprints on Friday morning. Which I did. I woke up feeling great. Did my sprints and then that afternoon did my weight training workout.

My run was so great. 30 mins of sprints. 30 secs on 30 sec off. When I did them on Tuesday I was so over it because I was on a dreadmill and every 30 secs I had to change the speed. Friday I was outdoors and the weather was surprisingly nice even had a breeze and I had fun doing them.

Some of my sprints!

Anyway I recall my back still feeling a little funny Friday while doing my workout but brushed it off.

Well my back had a surprise for me Friday night / Saturday morning. I could barely move. My lower back was killing me. The pain was really bad. At one point I am sure I wanted to cry. Partially because I couldn't get comfortable to sleep. I was suppose to get up saturday morning and go do another set of sprints before weight training but I decided it's time to take a couple days off before I really injure myself if I hadn't already. That is the scariest thought by the way. Thinking you may be injured.

So when morning rolled around I had a plan. I woke up and iced my back for 20 mins. Then I did 15 - 20 mins of yoga with moves specifically for the lower back. Then an hour or so later I went to the sauna and laid out for 20 mins. After that I went to Walgreens got me a back wrap and some ibuprofen.

Before I got home my back was feeling a little better. I think the sauna really helped. I could tell that it was more so my left side that was the problem. Felt extremely tight and tense. So when I got home I ate something then took the ibuprofen and about an hour later I used the back wrap. That really has been helping. I use it for 20-30mins every 2-3 hours. I woke up this morning in way less pain then the night before and slept much better.