I've been a bit of a whimp for the last week. As you know I've done my ankle and found out that it's the ligament that runs onthe inside of my leg so I didn't do a traditional 'roll' of the ankle more a squash inside of everything that is there so having done that it's pulling in quite a few areas and making it sore to weight bear for long periods of time in some places.
I am having trouble with doing some walking as when I go on the ball of my foot it pulls there too and twisting - well yeah we won't go there. Even getting out of the car is difficult as you out of habit put your foot down and pivot on it, so I need to pivot my whole body which can be interesting too when your parked in a car park and the person next to you is parked so close they should leave a can opener to make sure you have access next time.
I went to the physio on Friday for a review as my ankle didn't feel too bad but I wasn't expecting her to say I think you should have another week off. I don't know how I feel about that. Happy that I get a rest but I'm starting to feel a bit out of sorts not doing all the Zumba.
I have however as I stated earlier been a bit of a whimp and haven't been too quick to jump on the 'what else can I do bandwagon...' I'm naughty I know but I'm really scared I'm going to do something and 'ping' something will happen. So I decided yesterday being Saturday I would go to the gym and give a few things a go.
I went onto the bike for 10 mins for a warm up which felt alright and it actually felt like it loosened up my leg a bit so that was good. I did some upper body work on the machines that were there and attempted to do some other movements which my fab PT has shown me. I also did a fair amount of crunches and yeah I'm feeling them today. A last blast on the bike for 20 mins and I was powering it home. I was really struggling to burn the calories today being a toning based thing so I thought I would stay till I had at least done 500 calories. I finished the day with 535 so I was happy with that! That's a quiet Zumba class for me.
As I have taken the road less travelled I have had to make sure that my food intake is clean and 100% as you can't have your cake and eat it too - however I can't have any cake because I don't have any spare calories for the cake so I'm being good and hoping that the scales pay off for me next week. I also I guess quietly am glad that I have been home as I have had at least 2 calls all before 11.30am to 'come and get my son' so I would not have been able to attend the two gym classes I would normally have taken.
This is proabably doing the whole 'phew I'm glad that came up it means I don't have to work out'! Usually it means 'bugger' now when am I going to find the time to do it but I'm just happy for the moment that I have the ability to collect him from school. It's an external excuse which we need to deal with next term.....
Last night I also discovered spotify where I can get a lot of music and so managed to download about 2 hours worth of music and an hour worth of zumba stuff so that's great for me. My ankle was quite sore by the end of the evening so I didn't know if I had over worked it too much on the bike I'm just not sure but by sunday morning (as with most things it felt fine) But the rest of me ---- oh a different story...
My arms are quite sore today like I have been rowing across to china and my bum I can literally feel the bones in there. I said to a girlfriend 'you know how you think you can feel bones' she just laughed at me. I know there are bones in your bum but usually I've had way too much padding previously to worry about bones in my bum!
Have contacted a friend of mine who is a PT to see what she can recommend for me to do for the cardio days so I'm not on a bike for the rest of my days.
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