love/hate
How can I love something I hate so much! Pain is my body’s way of telling me it is healing and I worked hard toward a goal. This I like. But pain also is not comfortable. It is causing me to walk as though I was injected with polio. I worked my legs so hard on Monday, and now my legs are telling me how hard I worked them. I couldn’t live with knowing I went to the gym and didn’t put in my whole effort, but I could live without my effort causing a slow gait two days later. I worked so hard on mondays legs, I just wish today I didn’t have to work so hard to walk….
June 11, 2008 at 3:51 pm
lol i know the feeling.. soreness is the worst part cuz i always chuckle when i have to move a certain way, especially after legs..
June 11, 2008 at 3:58 pm
I love the leg pain…it just means you’re getting stronger!!! Keep up the great work Hanni!!!
June 11, 2008 at 4:40 pm
I don’t know if you already do this but both myself, my wife and all of our clients do cardio at the end of their leg day mainly for the reasons you just expressed.
If you are already doing this then I feel for your pain, if not then I suggest you have about a 20-minute medium effort session on the treadmill directly following the last exercise on your leg day.
I personally have a few minutes of calf tightening but after that it usually smoothes out and the next day is less than half as bad as it used to be before finishing leg day with cardio.
June 12, 2008 at 9:49 am
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June 12, 2008 at 7:17 pm
yeah i totally feel ya…i heard that the hot tub helps..never tried it even when I thought i was dying from a legs day. Well just wait before you know it, you won’t even feel a thing.