My last post, I talked about my injuries. Just not been a good year again! I am not sure how it all happen. All I can remember, one night doing 200 m sprints in the cold, gave me a bad cold and my hips were killing me. Then the lower back issue that led me to stop doing lifting so the chiropractic adjustments can take to help with the healing. Then it was the calves tightening up and ultimately, I had to stop running all together. Maybe those fast run warmups don't like me! I thought about Crossfit and thought it would help me gain strength but I realize, squatting is so difficult for me and so are the other activities. So with all of that, I am going to stop going to Crossfit, take a break from it and work on other activities to mend and heal.
I have met some friends there that we called ourselves sisters. They are the best! I know if something happens, they have my back! Love you girls!
I started back to swim classes this past September. I stopped because my favorite swim teacher left and also, the shoulder and hip injury was preventing me from learning and doing the freestyle stroke. I may make swim as part of my exercise program once I learn to swim better. I still have my YMCA membership.
Also the end of last year 2015, I joined back Arrichion Hot Yoga. This is a real family operation. You feel so much part of the family. No matter what class you take, you get the encouragement, and once you get something, you get that motivation to do even better. I had to stop last year with all the long hours at work.
I need some therapeudic mind-body medication and doing hot yoga, even though you sweat and feel exhausted, you feel so much better. Besides being a yoga studio, it also has circuit classes where there are 20+ stations you go through, interval training. You feel stronger each time you attended class. Then there is the pure lifting class - which is superset of exercises per body part - such has tricep extension, bicep curls , pushups as a superset. You are in a small group of 2-3. Yes, there is squats, because I am going to take this opportunity to focus on my glute activation issue. I am going to use lot less weight and concentrate on form and activating. The hardest class I have taken there is Tiger's Eye, half circuit, half yoga, you are completely exhausted but feel wonderful that you were able to do what you can.
Arrichion was the place I went to, my massage therapist's suggestion to look for a yoga studio, in the heat, to stretch , strenghten to help along with my hips, hamstrings, and whatever pain I was having. I started in 2010, was training for a half marathon. Running a mile was painful! I attended every stretching class at first before going on to the more difficult. I took what I called hot pilates - it's a core class. In November, I went and did my race. I always hurt at mile 2 - nope, no pain, then it was mile 7 - no pain. It was not until mile 11 when I had to stop and stretch a little, walk more and I finished my first half marathon. I have to thank my massage therapist and Arrichion. It's a Process as Quinn would say! You can do it Sue as Ty would say!
I will continue seeing my trainer. Imagine that, it has been 3 years since I started training with her and I am still going! I usually get bored and eventually stop. Her workout are never the same, and some exercise I can't do, she is able to improvise quickly. I do group training now with 2 other girls. I like this better, I get more out of it. One on one is great but cost adds up so this is doable.
So that's my plan! Meanwhile when I get a chance to create in the kitchen, I will post pictures. I did do more fish dishes but I will have to do pictures next time.
And most recently, my crossfit sister gave me a scoby so I can make my own kombucha. I used to buy bottles of it but at $4 a bottle, it gets expensive real fast. Oh, I had my trial and tribulations with the making, but so far, I have been successful. I even gave some scobies to a friend. So my scoby made baby scobies. So i am a grandma of scobies and my crossfit sister, is great grandma. I'm happy that I make someone happy
That is what I do, I love seeing smiles on people's faces. I love giving hugs, and when they are in pain,I am too!
So if you ever need a hug! And yes, I'm a good cook too so I was told - but my other friends said I'm a chef because I create where cooks follow a recipes. Well, I don't know about that - I just cook from my heart - this is what my father told me to do when I asked if there are recipes for his dishes.
Enjoy the read!
Sue
Monday, March 28, 2016
Monday, March 7, 2016
Reflections of 2015 and what's up for 2016
So I have not been on my blog for some time now! It is either inactivity in things I am doing or not doing or just don't have the time. Whatever the case, here I am!
I look back on 2015. I was reading my journal and I have paid my visits to the chiropractor, physical therapists, massage therapists. I initially went to see one chiropractor to deal with shoulder and neck pain and then when it became another issue in the hip and subsequently in the lower back. I switch over to see a different chiropractor in which she spends a lot of time looking at the person as a whole and not just adjusting what hurts.
The hip pain on the left side I am thinking from glute not activating. The massage therapists worked in and just not being able to release. That went away but somehow I know it will come back. The back injury where pain went all the way down to the right side and into the arch was L4 shift causing bulging disc and hitting the sciatic nerve. This means stop lifting or anything that would compress the spine. Time, therapy and exercise ease the pain. This meant any gains I was making doing Crossfit, I had to start all over slowly and carefully. This same thing happen when I injured my calves, tighten up and increased pain until I stop running, The chiropractor believes it is something called exertional compartment syndrome. The only remedy is fasciotomy - which I am not about to do that. So right now, I don't run. This means any of the crossfit WODs involves running, I cannot do. This also means I stopped doing galloway runs to train for races. This bothered me a lot because that was all I did until personal training, and crossfit came along. I tried everything, including rolfing. Going to massage therapy only provides temporary relief. I had to find a more permanent solution.
I finally went to see a physical therapist who is also a runner. It was out of network but if she can help me.
She did some gait analysis, watched me run and said a whole bunch of things, but first thing was to rid of the pain in the calves, even jumping jack, jumping ropes hurts. She did dry needling on my calves, hurts like heck, gave me some exercises to do, and foam roll a lot. At the time, it seems like any exercise she gives me to do - my calves would activate and nothing else. I think even during personal training, if I was to do say bridge or something one legged, my calves hurts. She feels the left glute is not firing. Now, I know I got muscle imbalances in which my original massage therapist said so. So now I am back to seeing my original massage therapist, see the physical therapist and hopefully will get the left glute to activate. Meanwhile I see my chiropractor every month for some total body care. I know it is going to take time but I just want a permanent solution to this problem. After all that, I will need to learn run midfoot.
With all the long hours at work, many of my activities came to a halt. So now that I have to time to think about things and what I should do in 2016. Whatever gains I made from Crossfit, I know I will have to start over again and I am not sure I want to do that so by end of March, I will choose not to renew my membership. I will miss many of the people there. I met 3 people there whom I called my sisters. No matter what we will stay in touch.
I have started back at Arrichion and I truly missed people there. Oh sure, people come and go but it is the atmosphere there. It's very welcoming and teachers truly want to help you. The people in class encourage and motivate. I probably need to get used to the heat again. But besides yoga, there is circuit class, there is weight lifting. So I am happy here!
I will continue to train with my trainer. I don't do too many solo sessions because it gets expensive and now I trained in a group with 2 other ladies which is a lot of fun, and we seem to get along real good.
I am having a blast this year learning all about kombucha. My sister earth mother Tara, gave me a scoby to make kombucha. Oh gee, what the heck. Nothing ever goes perfect the first time. I learn through trail and error but I was so happy when my first batch was a success and now after many attempts my second fermentation is doing good too - it fizzes.
And now only that, I shared my drinks with others and they love it. Some of my friends said I should go into business in making kombucha and also creating meals for athletes. I thought about it. Right now, it is not the right time and plus cooking and making kombucha is a hobby and cooking is my passion.
I was so proud that a friend asked how to make kombucha and I actually gave her a few scobys to start, gave her instructions. She told me hers is creating baby scobys. Yay!
My trainer is training for a show so I have not come up with recipes for her to try. I need to be careful since she will be on a rigid diet and don't want to introduce anything that is not good for her. But I am proud of myself, last meal I made did not have salt and sugars. I usually do fish since that is one food item people don't like, don't know how to cook. I will post pictures once I figure out how to.
This year my husband has been going hog while with looking for shows to go to. We went to see Nutcracker at the Raleigh Memorial for the first time. I don't really like ballet but this one is different, it showcases the talents of others and not just a whole ballet thing. Light pour in was terrible, the people from Cirque de Voy did an outstanding performance, I will want to want another performance. Our friend Amanda was in a few dance performance, and that last one was exciting - her flying on wires. The most recent we went to Carolina Theatre and watch a taiko drum performance, It was astounding!
So that's about it for now! I promise I will keep this blog updated.
Enjoy!
Sue
I look back on 2015. I was reading my journal and I have paid my visits to the chiropractor, physical therapists, massage therapists. I initially went to see one chiropractor to deal with shoulder and neck pain and then when it became another issue in the hip and subsequently in the lower back. I switch over to see a different chiropractor in which she spends a lot of time looking at the person as a whole and not just adjusting what hurts.
The hip pain on the left side I am thinking from glute not activating. The massage therapists worked in and just not being able to release. That went away but somehow I know it will come back. The back injury where pain went all the way down to the right side and into the arch was L4 shift causing bulging disc and hitting the sciatic nerve. This means stop lifting or anything that would compress the spine. Time, therapy and exercise ease the pain. This meant any gains I was making doing Crossfit, I had to start all over slowly and carefully. This same thing happen when I injured my calves, tighten up and increased pain until I stop running, The chiropractor believes it is something called exertional compartment syndrome. The only remedy is fasciotomy - which I am not about to do that. So right now, I don't run. This means any of the crossfit WODs involves running, I cannot do. This also means I stopped doing galloway runs to train for races. This bothered me a lot because that was all I did until personal training, and crossfit came along. I tried everything, including rolfing. Going to massage therapy only provides temporary relief. I had to find a more permanent solution.
I finally went to see a physical therapist who is also a runner. It was out of network but if she can help me.
She did some gait analysis, watched me run and said a whole bunch of things, but first thing was to rid of the pain in the calves, even jumping jack, jumping ropes hurts. She did dry needling on my calves, hurts like heck, gave me some exercises to do, and foam roll a lot. At the time, it seems like any exercise she gives me to do - my calves would activate and nothing else. I think even during personal training, if I was to do say bridge or something one legged, my calves hurts. She feels the left glute is not firing. Now, I know I got muscle imbalances in which my original massage therapist said so. So now I am back to seeing my original massage therapist, see the physical therapist and hopefully will get the left glute to activate. Meanwhile I see my chiropractor every month for some total body care. I know it is going to take time but I just want a permanent solution to this problem. After all that, I will need to learn run midfoot.
With all the long hours at work, many of my activities came to a halt. So now that I have to time to think about things and what I should do in 2016. Whatever gains I made from Crossfit, I know I will have to start over again and I am not sure I want to do that so by end of March, I will choose not to renew my membership. I will miss many of the people there. I met 3 people there whom I called my sisters. No matter what we will stay in touch.
I have started back at Arrichion and I truly missed people there. Oh sure, people come and go but it is the atmosphere there. It's very welcoming and teachers truly want to help you. The people in class encourage and motivate. I probably need to get used to the heat again. But besides yoga, there is circuit class, there is weight lifting. So I am happy here!
I will continue to train with my trainer. I don't do too many solo sessions because it gets expensive and now I trained in a group with 2 other ladies which is a lot of fun, and we seem to get along real good.
I am having a blast this year learning all about kombucha. My sister earth mother Tara, gave me a scoby to make kombucha. Oh gee, what the heck. Nothing ever goes perfect the first time. I learn through trail and error but I was so happy when my first batch was a success and now after many attempts my second fermentation is doing good too - it fizzes.
And now only that, I shared my drinks with others and they love it. Some of my friends said I should go into business in making kombucha and also creating meals for athletes. I thought about it. Right now, it is not the right time and plus cooking and making kombucha is a hobby and cooking is my passion.
I was so proud that a friend asked how to make kombucha and I actually gave her a few scobys to start, gave her instructions. She told me hers is creating baby scobys. Yay!
My trainer is training for a show so I have not come up with recipes for her to try. I need to be careful since she will be on a rigid diet and don't want to introduce anything that is not good for her. But I am proud of myself, last meal I made did not have salt and sugars. I usually do fish since that is one food item people don't like, don't know how to cook. I will post pictures once I figure out how to.
This year my husband has been going hog while with looking for shows to go to. We went to see Nutcracker at the Raleigh Memorial for the first time. I don't really like ballet but this one is different, it showcases the talents of others and not just a whole ballet thing. Light pour in was terrible, the people from Cirque de Voy did an outstanding performance, I will want to want another performance. Our friend Amanda was in a few dance performance, and that last one was exciting - her flying on wires. The most recent we went to Carolina Theatre and watch a taiko drum performance, It was astounding!
So that's about it for now! I promise I will keep this blog updated.
Enjoy!
Sue
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