Play it small now, make a big difference later
Well who’d have thought it? This week, I’ve been busy
following a daily advent of no more than 20 minutes exercise videos per day.
Within that, I have sometimes had to forego the odd position and make some of
the movements demonstrated smaller for the sake of my back.
However, overall, bar a couple of days where the back had a
hissy fit as it attempted to show me who was the real Boss around here, I have
actually had about 5 days out of 7 where I’ve felt…ok. Sure, that’s not
knicker-dropping fantastic news, but believe me, to just feel ‘ok’ for once
after 18 months of feeling vile and pain riddled every spare millisecond of
each day, this has been nice to have gaps, or little breaks from the pain.
Now, before I get too excited, I have been here – briefly –
before. In fact, I became over confident and ruined it as quickly as I had
discovered it. So, learning from those previous lessons, taking things
glacially slow, I will continue my little mini workouts extracted from my DVD
workouts (if that makes sense? Maybe ‘half arsed’ versions of the real
instructor on the TV screen would better define my workouts right now?) and
build up on that so that instead of my consistency/rally ending after 2
attempts or 3, it would be great to talk in terms of weeks, rather than days of
feeling good.
I’m on it. I’m not backing down. But when my back sends
those almighty lightening bolts, I do unfortunately have to ‘get back in my
box’ on those days.
When I’ve had a long enough rotation to see which exercises
help and which hinder, I will of course, Dear Reader, pass that privy
information on to you!
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