setback...

Just when I am being counted on to exercise for this project, as opposed to just exercising for my own pure pleasure, I get injured. I've had 2 bike accidents in my life, the more recent one was last spring. That accident left me unable to exercise for 2.5 months... with no ability to even do light cardio or weights by any means. However, after those months of recovery after my accident, I got going working out back in full force until October. Leading up to September my back was always tight, I was constantly stretching it, or attempting to to no avail, but besides that, there was no massive aching. But as September rolled around it was beginning to hurt, and hurt all the time. A dull aching when caring my bag around school, soreness when sitting, and an all around slight discomfort. But of course, I didn't stop excising for very little could stop me from working out each day. Even if I was sick I would make myself sweat through it for that one precious hour of cardio. But as September turned into October and the pain didn't subside and in fact got worse, I began cutting down my workouts. I couldn't run for my normal hour, my back hurt, my hips hurt, my knees hurt, I felt like I was completely falling apart. After each workout I would come home squeezing my back with my hands trying to kneed out whatever was holding me back from my physical dreams of pushing my body and doing the most weights and jump swats I could. It went on like that for a month until for a week in a row I would come back home from my workouts crying because I just couldn't do it and my back just wouldn't support me, and for the rest of the day it would be in aching pain.

My mom, frustrated almost as much as I was seeing her kid unable to do her favorite hobby and in pain all the time, called a highly referred acupuncturist. Long story short, he told me I had to stop exercising said I had scar tissue in my psoas muscle in my back (a muscle in the lumbar region of the back which also makes up a huge part of the hip flexors).

Despite tears and massive frustration, I didn't work out for 2 weeks upon my trusted acupuncturists advice. After two weeks jittery as a hummingbird I spent an hour on the stationary bike on no resistance. I continued doing that everyday however I felt like I was getting no exercise, and for three months I mentally suffered with just doing that. In the beginning of February I began going to the gym again. Instead of using the stationary bike in my house, I used the one at the gym, raised my resistance, and did some arm weights. (I found this necessary after I went to my doctor for my checkup, who weighed me on her special scale, and told me I had lost 2 pounds of pure muscle.)

Unfortunately, I still have not done, and cannot do, cardio kickboxing (or any other sport form of exercise besides the stationary bike). This has become a little bit of a setback...