cjh156’s BodyBlog

My cardio has gone out the window over the last couple of weeks.  I’m not too sure what happened, but i just haven’t been able to motivate myself to go run.  I’m thinking of changing from doing long runs to doing several short sprints to try and recharge my interest.  I hate when i fall into a rut, because it’s such a pain to get back on track……………..

My shoulder is finally feeling better.  After three weeks of not doing any shoulder work ,and keeping my chest work fairly light, my shoulder doesn’t hurt.  Today will be a good test of how well it’s healed, because I am planning on doing some light shoulder work to work it back into the fold. 

I can’t stand injuries, especially little ones that just nag at you for a few weeks

This shoulder thing is getting old.  I gave it about a week to heal up and it felt pretty good, so I go in Mon, do chest, and after that my shoulder is killing me again.  I did some research and based on my symptoms it sounds like I have a tear in the anterior deltoid, which is a relief.  I’m glad it’s not a rotator cuff or joint injury.  The big issues is once it’s inflamed I can’t do any upper body without making it worse, so now Ihave to take time off and that always causes a loss of motivation.  I tend to eat worse and run less when this happens.  I was making some great gains too. 

I think what I’m going to try and do is train light on upper body for the next week or two, along with a ton of icing, and try to work that muscle back to strength.  Anyone have experience with this type of injury?

So some how I managed to have leg day on the same day as I run.  Well it wasn’t a fun experince.  I did legs around 2PM and ran around 8PM and my legs just about gave out on me.  They cramped up like no other.  I started out feeling them complain, but figured I’d run the pain out and they’d get into the grove after about a mile. Yeah, that didn’t happen.  About the second mile they wanted to lock up and my shins were on fire.  At that point I decided to take my ball and go home.  Lesson learned, I’m keeping legs and running seperate from this point on

After posting a comment on another blog I figured I’d post here to get a woman’s perspective on a current issue I have in my marriage.  My wife has put on some weight after our second child and with changing from an active job to sedentary one.  She hates working out and lived most of her life with a body like she worked out all the time with no work.  I know she’s hates the weight and I of course encourage her to workout and not eat like crap.  She does good for a couple weeks then falls off the wagon and when i bring it up that she’s fallen off she tells me I’m nagging her.  What is the best way to passively motivate her to work out?  Right now it’s effecting not only how she feels about herself, but also the things we can do with our kids and where we go.

So I’m hating life today.  Took the ski train to winterpark yesterday and had a great day of riding in great conditions on an almost empty mountain.  I have to say it was probably the best day of snowboarding I’ve had in two years.  Well on the way home on the train we had free drinks, and I over did it.  All day today I have been completely out of it, and need to hit the gym, but probably won’t.  Why can’t I keep the resistance to hangovers I had when i was in my early 20’s???  It must be due to two factors….age and the fact that I don’t really drink much any more.  I seriously am worthless today at work, and I’m ready to call it a day.  Hopefully a jog tonight will help clear my head a little