POST OP CONFESSION

Firstly thanks again to Pip, Sandra, Michelle and Liz for taking the time to comment on my last post. Michelle, I sure did have that glass of wine and Sandra I get how Cassie would have felt although I was told to take my weight on my hands and not my armpits but geez crutches aren't fun.

Today I have come to the realisation that all my weird new aches and pains are purely from the awesome upper body workout you get from using crutches. The amount of isometric contractions you end up doing as you support your body weight on your palms is quite amazing. No wonder so many muscles are so sore.

Anyway before I realised this I had stubbornly made up my mind that today I was ready to do an upper body workout. I have a bung foot but everything else is in good working order so why not work it? I could tell Peter disapproved but I assured him that it would be a short, light workout. So as soon as the boys had left for the day I hobbled out to my studio on my crutches and this is what I did:

Seated rows using a slightly lower than usual weight and only one foot providing an anchor for support x 4 sets
Lat raises at my usual weight one foot taking my body weight x 4 sets
Girl push-ups x 4 sets
Seated overhead bumbbell raises at my usual weight x 4 sets.

Nothing stressed my foot as I was able to keep my weight off it whilst giving my upper body a good workout. The whole thing took about half an hour and I felt pretty smug that I'd done it.

However the rest of the day I overdid it a bit. I hobbled out for coffee, spent too long doing stuff in the kitchen and managed 2 loads of washing. At one stage in the kitchen in the afternoon I could feel my foot starting to throb and ache. 'Get it elevated' was the message it was sending but I'd promised to do some food prep and I didn't want to go back on my promise.

So in hindsight the workout wasn't such a good idea but hey, you live and learn and tomorrow I will be taking it easier, I promise.

M