Pop goes the hami

Yea, I pulled my hamstring on Wednesday. It sucked!

It had been a long day and I was so ready to get in the gym. We were focusing on the back, but my legs were still tight from the previous Wednesday. I bent down to do a dead lift and felt a pop in my leg. I instantly dropped the weight and began a slow hobble around the gym.

Chris, my trainer that day, said I should probably just go home, take it easy and throw some ice on it. But that would’ve been too easy. I was there to train, and I was going to train!

I hobbled over to the freezer, found an ice pack and strapped it around my throbbing hamstring and limped back out to the gym floor. Since it was back day, I figured I could do that rest of my workout sitting down.

It wasn’t fun; I was very frustrated. But at the end of the hour, I had gotten in my workout and left feeling good about that.

Upon arriving home I got the ice out again... as well as the next morning, afternoon and evening.

By the time I got to Body-N-Motion on Thursday (the next day), my leg was staring to feel better. I went through an arm workout with Rob and then hit some cardio with Pete. The cardio helped stretch me out a lot.

Friday it was pretty much feeling back to normal, which is a good thing because I spent the weekend camping and dancing at the Dave Matthews Band concert.

Moral to this story? If your legs are really sore, give them some ice and a good stretching. It’s not worth the injury!

While I don’t think this quote is talking about the same type of injury, it’s still a good one: “Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.” —Benjamin Franklin

John, Day 32