So I’ve got this nagging little shoulder injury. As a result I haven’t been doing my normal weight workout which includes high rep push presses.
So about a week ago my shoulder was feeling better so I went ahead and did my normal workout. Well I felt a twinge in my back. I was very sore the next day but thought nothing of it. The soreness was going away so i decided to have a camp out with my son in the back yard this weekend. BIG MISTAKE!
I wake up on Saturday morning in the tent and I can barely freakin’ move. Holey Cr@p! I spend the rest of the day trying to loosen up my back. I had my class with my instructor on Sunday. My back was feeling fine during the class but yesterday morning was so bad I called out of work.
It’s feeling a little better today but man. I sleep on the ground for one night and it destroys me.
I’ve been using one of those heat patches as well as a heating pad and some Aleave and it’s been working so far.
I’m gonna lay low for the rest of the week and hopefully I can get back to a somewhat normal workout this weekend.
So I’m an idiot. Today my back was feeling much better. Still some minor pain and stiffness but not bad. So I go to the park at lunch. I warm up a bit, run through my staff form and then 4 mantis forms. The plan was to step through them slowly. BUT caught up in the moment and knowing how fast mantis forms are supposed to be, I picked it up a bit. Somewhere in the 3rd form I tweaked my back again.
So now I’m sitting here at work in pain. I’ve got a date with the heating pad tonight and this kinda ruins all of my workout plans for the next week or so. D@MNIT!
You might want to consider acupuncture. My back went out at a seminar once and my coach used acupuncture to fix it up real nice. Sev was there, he can tell you how bad my back was.
Thanks for the advice. I’ll consider the acupuncture. Right now I’m doing pretty good with the heat patches. By the way, I’ve tried a lot of them. The following is by far the best I’ve used. http://salonpas.us/products/salonpas-large.html
Backs feeling better today. I may step through some tai chi tomorrow.
I wore a heat patch on my back for most of the day. Took my son to see Superman Returns. Good movie. Then we went to the pool. My back is feeling so much better right now. I’m gonna do a light workout on the rowing machine and see how I feel after that.
I think swimming around in the pool really helped.
On a good note, my back is doing much better today. I was able to do a rowing workout last night and felt no related pain.
I’m still a bit sore and I do feel pain when I do certain twisting motions. You don’t have to twist too much to practice kung fu do you?
Anyway, I’m on the mend. I realize that this thread really only served the purpose for me to write about this but it helps me to get through an injury when I can talk about it. Thanks to all who commented.
why dont you just stretch and swim for a week. if your feeling froggy swim, hot tub swim, and try hanging upside down a bit. catch up on some video games, breathing work and meditation. on week two go running and maybe start lifting everything but back … try some ab work and see how that goes. focus on lower body … light squats for sets of 15 or so. do some horse stance …
hehe … im glad to see to hear your playing guitar. good way to be productive while letting yourself heal up.
oh and i forgot to mention contrast showers … i tweaked something between my shoulder blades a few weeks ago and i swear by them.
did 3 minutes of water hot enough to almost scald me followed by 1 minute of water as cold as it will go. i did this for as many rounds as i had time for … usually 2-3 … sometimes a little more.
i really think it helped though and i still do them after heavy lifting sets.
Well I did an easy run at lunch. About 4 miles. Took it nice and slow. Didn’t feel much pain in my back. There was a twinge here and there but nothing significant. Tomorrow morning will be the tail of the tape. If I can get out of bed, it was a good run. If I can’t, then it wasn’t such a good idea.
