Thursday, May 29, 2008

Active Rest... Needed.


Wow.  I've got some serious sore spots today.  Yesterday, my right elbow was hurting, but I pushed through and today it's doing quite a bit better.  My lower right back was also hurting a little yesterday, but after warming up it was working well, only to be uncomfortable the rest of the day.  Today, it's fine.  But my left shoulder, or I should say my rotator cuff...  Ouch.  After years of beating on it while pole-vaulting and an unfortunate dislocation during the fire academy, it's a wonder it works at all.  So it's strange that I'm surprised about this pain.  The range of motion is a little smaller than normal.  It's popping a little.  Just the usual inflammatory stuff I guess.  
And I'm tired, which is no surprise.  So today is a rest day; an active rest day.  I need to clean my house (yeah, laugh it up asshole).  And I read that for my 212# self, I'll be burning 240 calories an hour doing light cleaning with moderate effort.  Whether or not that's true, I don't know, but it sounds good to me.  So to actually CLEAN my house, I'll be burning about 2,400,000 calories today...

1 comment:

Daphne said...

I think before and after photos are in order.