Soreness and Injuries
I'm 8 months post RNY and about 5 months into a weight training program that I recently stepped up and have been working with a trainer about 6 weeks. Its made a big difference.
Question about being sore: How much is too much? How do you know when to "stop" so you don't get that way? After bumping up weights and reps this past week, on Thursday I was so sore I could barely lift my legs to get into the car and I scooted down the stairs at my house on my rear because my quads were so sore. Then on Saturday at the gym I was doing squats with the barbell and rolled my ankle. This resulted in a stress fracture and a sprain. I am now panicking because I can't work out.
Do you work through injuries? I am thinking about staying on the elliptical or something non impact and still working out my upper body so I am doing SOMETHING. But I truly don't want to prolong the problem.
Question about being sore: How much is too much? How do you know when to "stop" so you don't get that way? After bumping up weights and reps this past week, on Thursday I was so sore I could barely lift my legs to get into the car and I scooted down the stairs at my house on my rear because my quads were so sore. Then on Saturday at the gym I was doing squats with the barbell and rolled my ankle. This resulted in a stress fracture and a sprain. I am now panicking because I can't work out.
Do you work through injuries? I am thinking about staying on the elliptical or something non impact and still working out my upper body so I am doing SOMETHING. But I truly don't want to prolong the problem.
For me Soreness is good. If I am sore then I am doing something, but PAIN is not so good and sometimes it can be hard to tell the difference.
As for working through injuries ummm NO Comment. if you have to work around your injury, if you have leg pain then don't run or do weights with your legs focus on upper body and maybe spinning rather than running.
As for working through injuries ummm NO Comment. if you have to work around your injury, if you have leg pain then don't run or do weights with your legs focus on upper body and maybe spinning rather than running.
Paul C.
First 5K 9/27/20 46:32 - 11 weeks post op (PR 28:55 8/15/11)
First 10K 7/04/2011 1:03 First 15K 9/18/2011 1:37
First Half Marathon 10/02/2011 2:27:44 (PR 2:24:35)
First Half Ironman 9/30/12 7:32:04
First 5K 9/27/20 46:32 - 11 weeks post op (PR 28:55 8/15/11)
First 10K 7/04/2011 1:03 First 15K 9/18/2011 1:37
First Half Marathon 10/02/2011 2:27:44 (PR 2:24:35)
First Half Ironman 9/30/12 7:32:04
I saw the doctor today and he recommended I not exercise except upper body (situps, arm weights, etc) for the next week, then I can resume elliptical. No "leg lifting" for three weeks. :/ Apparently a stress fracture doesn't heal when you put....stress on it.
I am glad I can still do something though. I am testing for black belt in 109 days (but who is counting?) and I am super nervous about getting behind.
I am glad I can still do something though. I am testing for black belt in 109 days (but who is counting?) and I am super nervous about getting behind.
Working through some injuries can prolong them. So it's probably better not to or to do something modified that doesn't stress that body part.
As for soreness, if you get so sore that you have to take pain meds (i.e., ibuprophen, aceteminophen) to function, then you are overdoing it. Those meds actually interfere with your fitness gains so you aren't getting any more fit than if you backed off and only got sore enough to know you worked out but don't have to take anything.
As for soreness, if you get so sore that you have to take pain meds (i.e., ibuprophen, aceteminophen) to function, then you are overdoing it. Those meds actually interfere with your fitness gains so you aren't getting any more fit than if you backed off and only got sore enough to know you worked out but don't have to take anything.
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