20 Minute Workout with 10 Minute Trainer

I FINALLY took Nike's advice and Just did it! A 20 minute workout with Beachbody's 10 Minute Trainer. 


For the passed 2 weeks my physical self has been feeling more and more pain in my back, neck and leg. Saturday morning I woke up to a nearly crimped neck, so I made the decision to SMR (Foam Roll) 2ce a day; once before bed and once when I wake up in the morning while enjoying my morning java. 


Taking the 30 minutes to an hour a day for a few days to do SMR has helped tremendously to reduce the cramping and pain associated with my nowhere-near-as-active-as-I-once-was-lifestyle. 


Later in the morning, when my diaphragm was up in my throat again (see my last post for an explanation), I took a moment to ground myself in the chair I was in and started my corrective breathing. While I was doing my belly breathing something happened that was very disturbing and EXTREMELY painful. When I breathed in I felt a weird feeling in my right chest, not sure if it was starting in the lung, or a muscle, but it started with a blockage feeling like I just couldn't breathe in enough air. Then I felt something like a tear. The pain was profound in my right chest it shot up my neck to the top of my head and radiated down my right arm; the pain was so intense I nearly passed out. The pain subsided after about 5 minutes and turned to a dull ache in my chest, neck and arm that lasted the better part of the morning. I have to say I was very concerned that something was, and possibly still is, wrong and my gut screamed to get a chest x-ray, but that could be the anxiety talking. I'll just keep an eye on it, or breath :)


Fast forward to mid-afternoon. I  started to feel "strange". Now this "feeling" is familiar to me, it's not something that resulted from the episode in the AM, but it wasn't anxiety; my heart was simply beating hard and nearly in my throat. Prior to the realization that a lot of what I experience involves my hormones I simply ignored it and went about my business. Towards the late afternoon I was feeling edgy, and tingly and I would get something like a hot-flash but it lasted for a split second and quickly turned into the chills.. brrrr.. This went on for a better part of 4 hours


Fast forward to this evening. I finished all of my work with Sharecare, The NJ Fitclub and Fitness to a T, and I was waiting for the 8:30 team call.. BORED. I took the bull by the horns and decided to get back into the full swing of working out so I sought out my old faithful - 10 Minute Trainer. I didn't want to go all crazy with cardio or total body as I still had the chest pain incident fresh in my mind, and I was feeling a little "off" so I took it a little easier and went with Yoga Flex and ABS. I need the stretching and breathing from the Yoga and the Core work from the ABS, that is why I chose those routines. 22 minutes later (I did the warm-up too) I felt better, sweatier, and ready to tackle the team call (after a REAL quick shower to wash off the goo). Then it happened... my "friend" showed up. Now the afternoon made more sense to me. I'm 5 days early so I really was caught off guard by the feelings I was having. Well, I guess I'm not pregnant :D I'll just have to keep on trying! hee hee!


I'm glad I took the 20 minutes to workout with 10 Minute Trainer, my breathing is back to normal, my core is sore, my muscles are stretched, and I'm happy and content. 

Reassessment

I want to preface before i get into the thick of it by saying that weaning from an anti-depressant is serious business, and you really have to take care of yourself and listen to your body.

I say this because yesterday was a particularly hard day (day #3 of the wean). Bad headaches, tired is barely a word to describe the lethargic feeling, no appetite, and that is to mention just a few.

I had to skip the workout yesterday, and had planned on working out today, but I'm keeping it at a yard-work only work-out, as my anxiety levels are a bit high, and my symptoms today are worse than yesterday.

I AM afraid of a repeat of Monday, I will not deny it. IT was scary. I am however, grateful for the experience because if one of my boot campers experiences light headed-ness i know what to do while waiting for an ambulance to come. I always say "everything happens for a reason", and whether that is the reason, or it's something that has to do with my physical state, it happened and it happened for a reason. I don't look at it as a set-back, I look at it as a learning experience.

While i was scheduling out my to-do list last night i decided that i am going to forgo the full Insanity jump in and continue with my Chalean weight training and after a week i will switch to the Chalean/TurboFire hybrid. That will allow me to have the weight training i need (and want) as well as bring up my cardio levels.

When I started P90X, i didn't just buy the program and jump in. I knew my body was not physically able to do it. What i did do, is purchased 10 minute trainer then worked up to turbo jam, then Chalean Extreme, THEN i did P90X. And because of that gradual increase, i was able to kick major doopah with P90X! I never felt like a failure or discouraged, and i didn't have any physical side effects, other than soreness, which is what i love because it tells me I'm getting somewhere.

Thinking ahead to the Spartan coming up in June, my decision to register was to give my own brother a push, and to also use this to gauge my own physical capabilities for the Tough Mudder in November. That being the case, I'm clearly not ready for Insanity. I need to take the same "marathon vs. sprint" approach and work my way up.

Game Plan: Chalean/TurboFire Hybrid and Couch to 5k training. Couch to 5k training is a 30 day plan, so even if i start in May i will be OK. In the meantime I'm going to do the hybrid to get started.