paulapop’s BodyBlog

I had dental surgery last week, had two wisdom teeth pulled on tuesday.  I did a one hour CORE class the morning before the surgery thinking I had better get some gym time in because I wouldn’t be going on tuesday.  Well I was right about that, I sure didn’t go on tuesday, or wednesday, or thursday, friday or saturday.  I really didn’t expect to be set back by the surgery so much.   What could having 3 useless teeth pulled possibly do to impact my workout schedule.

Wednesday I was actually feeling "ok", not well enough for the gym, and I had been instructed to keep to calm activities for the day to keep the blood pressure low and control the bleeding.  Thursday I was actually feeling pretty well, and could have maybe did a light workout except for one thing……I couldn’t eat anything.  I was living on protein shakes and yogurt, no fuel for the machine means the machine don’t work so well. So I ended up with nearly a week off from the gym.

To make up for missing my session with the trainer on saturday, I have two sessions with her this week.   1st one was tuesday, at which she informed me that we were going to "get me back up to snuff".  Funny thing is, I thought I was snuffed enough.  Again, I was wrong.  We did an upper body 1.5 rep workout.  I can still feel it in my chest, and I have to say, I have never reached failure so often.  I was doing 3 sets of 12 and on every excercise I couldn’t finish the last set, I would start struggling at 8, regain my focus and push out 3 more, and then fail on the 12th.

My kickboxing class started up again this week, EGADS.  It has been revamped a bit and is definitely up a notch.  I am feeling my workouts this week, I guess I really wasn’t "up to snuff".