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.