Lets see whats been up? I started off the year good, training hard. I was training for a Bank of America Lung Association Climb, here in Tampa(which I did do, and not to shabby considering). In the progress of doing all my regular workouts, weight training, obstacle course competitions, I had added… training with a weighted vest 1-2 times a week 28-42 flights of stairs(sound easy..try it) and I want to run a 1/2 marthon with my dad some time this year, so I had added some distance training. Ok, I have a tendency to oh..I don’t know..sometimes do a tad to much. Oopsie! I don’t usually know when I injure myself, usually I wake up the next day and something doesn’t feel quite right. When the Doc’s ask how I received an injury, well they don’t ask any more, but when they did.. I’d be like I don’t know..probably on the obstacle course. So this time.. my hip was stiff..ok..big deal.. kept training..run through the pain. No pain, no gain…etc.. I was a gymnast for 11 years.. I don’t stop training for pain. Well, I guess sometimes you should.. about 2 weeks after that.. I felt like a little old lady.. still doing the same training regimen..but at night I’d sit on the couch for an hour or so..and when I went to get up.. it was painful..and difficult. Then it started happening at work to.. more sitting, [b]sitting is overated![/b] One of my friends at the gym is a physical therapist and one morning we were discussing my latest… training issue(I refuse to call it an injury!) Apparently, some of the muscle in my hip is freezing up.. she thought probably I was only able to use about 60% of that muscle…and therefore I was overtraining it. So in to the doc I go. And off to physical therapy…some newfangled kind with a machine..really cool.. I"m not going to lie..its um..somewhat painful..can you say Tband, ouch! Ok, so the muscles in my legs and lower abs..are tight..gee thanks, to me that’s a compliement..guess they aren’t suppose to be quite so tight.. who’ve guessed? And they are pulling on the ‘Tensor fasciae latae’ which is a muscle that runs from your iliac crest down into your iliotibial band(or tband). The machine pushes on your thigh muscles and iliac muscle and abs..causing them to flex..and eventually release.. it was truly an amazing thing. I still have a way to go before its completely healed. I had to stop physical therapy, because, well even the co pays for this..are out of this world! But if I could afford to..I’d have it all the time. I didn’t realize what your legs are suppose to feel like. Obviously, no one gets to this stage over night…but now I know how it feels, and I will get my foam roller..and work on my tbands as much as possible in the meantime. And work to strengthen the other muscles around this one. I have backed off a lot on my training for now. Just weight training 3 times a week, obstacle course 1 time(but skipping parts that are painful to that hip for now) and indoor rock climbing once a week(I’m loving this new challenge). I’m hoping in a few weeks.. things will be back to ‘normal’. But a word to the wise..don’t neglect your foam roller, or your massage therapist.. and don’t shy away from having them work the tband, if it hurts..there is a reason.. and it needs to be worked out..before you end up.. needing a lift chair to get up. Ok, I’d better get some rest. I have to do chest in a little over two hours..woohoo, upper body! It still works. 
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