Well I'm laying on my yoga mat with some battery life left in my computer so I figured, what the heck, I'll hit up the blog for a hot minute. I don't have a TON to report (because it's only been 2 days), so this will be a short one for once! Woo!
So Thursday after I posted my last post, I ran off to work. And it was a horrible day for my back. I don't know what it was. I THINK what happened is that this week I didn't work a lot of day shifts, and didn't hit up the gym much. I worked one day shift, an overnight and Thursday was an evening shift. The one downside to the evenings/overnights is that there is a lot of sitting. Like for hours. So I think I just got super tight. Even if that's not actually what happened, by back was pissed. Like really pissed. Inactivity kills, people. It hurt almost as bad as it did when I originally injured it. And because doing anterior pelvic tilts is awkward as heck to people that don't know what you're doing, I was sneaking off to the bathroom to do them. All new low, lemme tell ya. I got home and tried to stretch out a little before bed, which helped a little. Friday we got up to go to the gym and I knew I wasn't doing deadlifts, thrusters and sit ups. There was just no way. So I made best friends with the yoga mat and did a couple ROMWODs. Even then it took a couple hours, a full dose of tylenol and ibuprofen to make the pain go away.
Not a great end to the week, but it forced me to make a decision. I'm just tired of my back getting flared up and having to wait until the next day to get to the gym and really be able to do something about it, but then I have to miss the workout and do ROMWODs. Don't get me wrong, I've learned to love ROMWOD, but when you go to the gym you want to work out. Not gimp yourself around the yoga mat and watch other people kick ass. It's better than nothing, but not really a part of the long term plan here.
So, today I signed up for my own ROMWOD subscription. Basically, it's Crossfitter's yoga. That's what I've decided to call it. I think I gave a brief description about it before, but in case you missed that one, it's short "workouts" that comprise of only mobility work. It's not crazy yoga poses like standing on your head and shit. It's just basic stretches and stretch progressions that really target muscle groups that we hit on a regular basis. And you're holding poses anywhere from 1 minute to 3 minutes (I think that's where the swole part comes from). What I didn't know until today was that they actually have a daily WOD so I don't have to randomly pick workouts for myself, I can just do the daily one and be done. At the gym, I was just picking random ones that hit up the low back and legs.
I used to think I was flexible, but holy shit I've learned I have a ways to go with this. Like for example, they have us doing deep lunges and holding them. I can pretty easily do them with my hands on the floor but these athletes are doing them and getting their elbows down on the floor. It'll be awhile before I get to that, but I'm really excited to see how much I progress. Ideally I'd like to add this into my daily regimen. I think it'll be really good for me physically because it'll keep my muscles stretched, especially on my non-gym days, and hopefully keep my back happy. But after doing this one today I feel nice and relaxed. Everytime I've done them at the gym, you have the ambient noise of people dropping barbells and loud music. But at home I've found out that they work on breathing and relaxing into the poses. The background music isn't the worst either. The longest one I've encountered so far is 20 minutes so it's not even like it's a huge time commitment either.
Alright, time to get myself off my mat and get back to relaxing. What I do best :)
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