thedietbeast: April 5--Slow and Steady

As suggested by my sister, I should take things slow and steady with my new life plan. What I have done, however, is take things fast and tottery. I say tottery because at the moment that is how my legs feel…shaky, quivering and in need of an ice bath.

Here's the breakdown for the cause of this predicament. Two days ago I went to the gym for the first time in months and rode the bike for 10 minutes, proceeding to the lift machines where I used 70 lb weights on both the inner and outer thigh machines. Yesterday I was fine, but today when I got up I had sharp pain radiating all the way from my thighs to my feet. I liken the feeling to a terrible toothache.

Yet, I decided that I would not let this pain get in the way and went to the gym today despite this radiating tremor. This is how I entered the gym…

Just imagine a girl and smaller muscles...

Then I exited the gym with a smile on my face. So I looked kinda like this…

WOO HOOOO!!

Why was I so happy, because the pain was completely gone. I admit while doing the leg machines they did shake quite a bit and the whole spreading my legs apart was not as usual…meaning I could barely part them. But I was relieved as I walked to the car, noticing my legs were now moving at a normal rate (unlike this morning).

On the car ride home, though, I felt a slight pain returning. Well, I thought, "you have not been beaten into submission muscles!" Therefore, I went ahead and pressure washed my house and washed my cars. So far, so good…

I let my sisters know of my eliminated pain and their response was: "just wait." Of course, I tried to dismiss this comment, but they are marathon runners and I had a sneaky suspicion they may know what they are talking about.

I went to take my shower and sat down on the couch. For an hour all was well, but now I am feeling what can only be comparable to a thousand wasp stings on my legs. Now I look a bit like this…