Week 4 Day 2

Man, my body is still sore! I can’t remember the last time I was this sore from working out! I generally have high pain tolerance, and then mix that with my delayed onset muscle soreness, I hardly EVER feel pain. You know those reps towards the end of your set where your trying for all your worth? I don’t feel sore at that moment, I just feel my body giving up. That’s it. Rarely do I feel like my body will rip apart at those final reps, but more like my body will collapse from not being able to do anymore.

That being said, I’m sore, so sore. But I had to get up and do a bunch of things because my husband is sick and I have to go to work. Work went well (although I got tired quickly), and my students managed to get me off topic for about an hour. An hour is a crazy amount of time to be off topic, I understand. But the choice of topic was one that could not be ignored. I choose to work in a Christian school for the simple fact that I can freely talk about God and show His love to my students. I can strive to prepare them for a world of sin and temptations and teach them to grow their own personal relationships with God. And so when questions arrive about the end of the world, Heaven, and complicated questions such as why God even created humans if He knew we would sin, I know these are important questions that require answers. And this just happened to be such an afternoon; an afternoon my students had questions that I felt deserved the best answers I could give. These are the conversations I will remember.

Following school, I stayed a little longer to help a student with her math, and then headed home to take care of my husband. Tonight was a special night for me. Our gym was hosting a grand opening for Fresh Fit Foods, a clean eating food delivering service. I was so excited to go meet the chef, sample some of the menu, and sign up for a 21-Day pack. Now, I will warn you, it is fairly expensive! This is not something I could probably do all year. But my health is worth my investment and if that means setting myself on the right track by having no excuses for eating good, then I’m going to do it. So I did. And let me tell you, I’m so proud of a company that searches for nothing but the best ingredients, making all their own recipes and finding foods that don’t use any chemicals or additives in their foods. The chef was so wonderful and easy to talk to, and you could tell how proud he was of his clean food. It’s honestly food and a company I would recommend to anyone!

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After signing up, I went around getting the different foods and supplements my husband needed. This took longer than expected, but I was able to find everything he needed. I went home and was able to visit with him for a little before going back to the gym. I ended up working out for 2 1/2 hours, including a 1/2 hour steady state cardio session on the stationary bike. I killed legs again (too many leg days in a row) and could barely get off the bike by the time I was done. I went home and could barely finish the things I needed to do before going to sleep. I was exhausted!

That Workout Aching Feeling

I am such a huge recipient of delayed onset muscle soreness.Without fail, I usually leave the gym wondering if I really did workout hard enough, and by a day or two later, I know I hit it hard. That soreness sets in like crazy!

This past week, I’ve started training with my husband again and he’s put me on a split I’ve never done before: legs, push, pull, legs, push, pull, rest.

Today was my second legs day, and I can tell you that I was sore from workouts, but nothing extreme. In fact, I was MUCH stronger and felt much better with my workout today until the very end. Instead of my soreness being delayed, it hit HARD. In fact, I feel drained, energy-less, and my left quad/hip area almost feels lame, like I would imagine a lame horse. Almost dead and non-existent. I am so slow-moving tonight and gathering what energy I can to get in the last of my macros and even type this blog.

Normally I combat this with foam-rolling, stretching, and ball rolling for the intense areas. I did all of those and still feel like “blah”. Of course I’m sure with some good sleep tonight, I will feel much better tomorrow.

How does your body react to your workouts? Do you get sore right away or do you share my condition of delayed onset muscle soreness? And what do you do to help combat it?