Week 1 - Day 5

An injury from earlier this summer reared it's ugly head during today's workout. Not enough to stop me, but enough to make things uncomfortable for a while. Thankfully, the discomfort disappeared during the 3rd circuit, after the Lateral Raises.

What happed was I slipped on a wet staircase in late July. When I fell, it was strait down onto my bum, but I took the brunt of the weight to my bent left arm and shoulder. It's the kind of thing where after it happens, you look around to see if anybody saw, then you realize you may have actually hurt something. At first, I thought I might have broken my arm, but after a check, it was intact, and no dis-located shoulder. But, I knew that my arm and shoulder were going to hurt for a very long time.

I was afraid that when I started this program, that injury was going to be the one that bothered me the most, but would be re-rehabilitated by the activity. It didn't even come to my mind until today when I started to get some discomfort in my left shoulder early on. I worked through it, hoping that if I kept it stretched and loose, it'd work itself out, and it did.

The moral of this story is... better stretching of my left arm and shoulder is now in affect. I think that's why I haven't felt it till today. My stretching ritual wasn't what I normally do because I spent a little more time on my lower than I did my upper. Noted and assimilated!!