Downtime is Important Too!
First I have to apologize. It has been a very long time since my last post and I am a little ashamed. Sometimes you just need to take a break and if you are too stubborn to take one, nature will make sure that you do. I have been working very hard for the past 6 months in preparation for my level 2 Agatsu Kettlebell Certification. I picked up extra shifts at work to offset the cost of the certification and upped my training as well. AKC 2 is a very intense physical certification and it has me a bit nervous. Perhaps "a bit" is somewhat mild. I am training like mad, laying awake thinking about it nervous. Right around the end of spring break I started to get a bit sick, a cough and sore throat mostly, nothing serious. I kept up with my training, didn't miss a shift at work and even went to an AKC 1 cert and managed a PB in the Chrissy workout. Finally on a day off, I decided to take it easy, rest and get better. In retrospect, that may have been a mistake. That day marked the beginning of an entire week of down time with a high fever and serious lack of energy or appetite. I barely moved from the couch except to go up to bed. I am not sure exactly what it is that I did wrong. Was it that I kept working and training until I finally crashed or was it allowing myself a day of downtime that allowed the sickness to catch hold? I think the bottom line is to just listen to your body. Pain should tell you to stop what you are doing, exhaustion should tell you to take a break and if you are sick, take time to get better before it gets worse. At the end of that week, just as things were starting to look up I lost a close family member. The days following that were full of preparations and time with the family. I took my ipad home to Saskatchewan with me but didn't even turn it on, there really wasn't time. So I was again forced to take it easy which was probably good. It allowed me to ease back into my training, testing the water first and not just plunging in with both feet. It has now been a little over 2 weeks since I started to get better and I have gained back the weight I lost and then some. I am slowly regaining my strength, my appetite is back in full force and things are looking up. For some reason that I can't explain I am really having trouble with push ups since then. Other things are coming back easily but where I used to be able to do 30 push ups (that was a goal that I achieved last Easter) I can now only do 5 or 6 before I start to fail. That has me particularly worried because I am told that I will have to do 25 ring push ups at AKC 2 - more sleepless nights. Perhaps it is all in my head, perhaps if I tell myself that ring push ups are easier than floor push ups and that a 16 kg kettlebell is just as light as an 8 kg everything will be fine. I am choosing to believe that, I don't have much choice. Now as it is a beautiful day and my lunch has had sufficient time to settle I am going to grab my VFF's and my dog and go for a run.
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