Back on board

Last week after giving blood I was super anemic and exhausted and kinda sick (just my body's stress reaction of "whaaaaaat didyoujustdotome????"), so I didn't work out so much.

This week, I'm back in it! I got some sweet advice from my physical therapist today about knees and things, and I'm having a good time. Look forward to more posting, although possibly not as day-to-day as before.

Day 7: still improving

Today should have been rest day. I almost made it rest day, but I pushed through and did Monday's workout, so that after I give blood tomorrow I'll be able to do a rest day.

I think I figured out what's going on with my knee. I had been adjusting my stance during stretches to be "normal" for me, but then, two days ago, I started having enough flexibility to point my feet forward, so i did. this, I think, though being alright in my muscles, caused all kinds of problems in my joints, which just aren't made for pointing forward. So today I went back to adjusting myself to point my toes out as they want to be. Though my knee was still a little sore today, it wasn't the stabbing, "STOP!" pain of yesterday.

Dinner was Hawaiian Chicken (bbq sauce and crushed pineapple over chicken) from the crockpot, over rice, with pudding for dessert. And, bonus, I have enough calories left in the day that I am supposed to eat, so I'm going to have some cereal before bedtime. (I'm tracking calories using an online tool, mostly at this point just for seeing what I can eat at the end of the day, pre-bed-snack-wise.)

Day 6: too soon for improvement?

Nope, not too soon at all. This was the first day that I was faced with doing a routine that I had already done. It's probably my favorite of the routines, and I was indeed able to do it better today. And that was after spending three hours out and about with a friend.

I had to do more modifying than I would have liked... my ankle in an odd spot was sore by the end, but the big modifier was my knee. I hope that it was how I was sitting before I started exercising, but there was sharp pain at the top of my knee cap when ever I bent the knee under pressure (landing a jump, preparing a jump, etc.) I iced both sore spots after, and the knee feels fine (I haven't tested it, though), but the ankle is still a little sore. We'll see what happens, but it was encouraging that I was able to do the cardio and other things up to that point better than I had earlier in the week.

Technically, tomorrow is my day off, but since I'm giving blood on Monday, I'm going to do Monday's workout tomorrow, and take Monday off. I am ready for a day off, but I know that it'll be good to not have two days off and get thrown off my stride.(And definitely good not to even try to work out on the day I do my first blood donation.)

Day 5

Today's workout was edited thanks to a slight headache and a too late lunch.
All cardio, but definitely reduced. Not feeling super strong, but hopefully tomorrow will be better.