I had a very painful weekend. I don’t know if it was the weather or something else external, but I was in so much pain that I thought I had damaged the fusion in my lower back. However, I felt a lot better this morning when I woke up. I still had some pain, but not the near-crippling pain like over the weekend.
I have been having headaches. I don’t know what is causing them. It could be sinus pain. Today my knees hurt also. I have not had any knee pain since I began nearly 5 months ago. Maybe the weather is affecting them as well. I hope that’s all it is. Still, I was able to complete my leg workout.
I also found an excellent way to work out my calves. It was an accidental discovery. While on the elliptical machine, I always have trouble getting my feet comfortable. So during my time on the machine, I’m constantly shifting my weight around trying to get comfortable. So at some point, I found myself raising my heels off the surface of the pedals. Within several seconds I could feel my calves contracting vigorously. This was during the last 7 minutes or so of my elliptical workout. So I decided to pedal for 2 minutes with my heels raised, rest with my heels down for one minute, then repeat. I only got to do it about twice. I don’t get that amount of muscle contraction doing 8 sets of toe raises with weights.
Needless to say I will be doing this from now on, and more often during my 45 minute elliptical ride to nowhere.
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