Oh My Aching Muscles!!!

17. June 2008, 1:44 pmexercise, personal trainerlightening

Muscle Groups

One of the things I have found fascinating since starting work with a personal trainer is the number of muscle groups I never knew I had. It’s probably a bit of a stretch to actually call these “muscle groups”. Laughing They certainly aren’t “strong” muscle groups. But they’re there nonetheless.

Usually the morning after my session, I can tell which muscle groups have been targeted in the session the day before. Smile

From that perspective, training with a trainer has been a fantastic learning curve. In the past I would have termed “fitness” as doing a bit of a run or a session on the bike. I might do a few push-ups or sit ups. But it really is SO much more than I ever understood.

I learnt something else this morning. The term “DOMS” which was mentioned in response to a Plurk I made yesterday and stands for “Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness”.

Anyway, I sure have DOMS today!!!! Surprised Laughing

My outer arms, across my back and my lower abs. Although my lower abs aren’t as sore as I thought they might be (considering I did indeed think I was a “dying cockroach” during one of the exercises Wink).

I’m beginning to LOVE that feeling of tiredness after a good session. Physical tiredness rather than emotional or mental. There’s a certain sense of satisfaction that comes from knowing you’ve given it your all (or maybe even a little bit more than “all”).

I did sleep well last night (and most of this morning). Although that could be in part due to taking extra sleepy medications after having a session with my counsellor that went for more than 2 hours!!!

So, yesterday was a reasonably full-on day and today I have only half a day to get done what I need to get done. The kids have a day off school today (teacher’s strike) and are off tailing lambs but I expect they’ll be home soon.

Not that anything that “needs” doing today couldn’t wait.

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5 comments:

  1. Sharon, 17. June 2008, 21:11

    Great work! I suspect this means you will soon be playing centre!

     
  2. river, 17. June 2008, 21:31

    I have DOMS too. Some mornings I wake up almost unable to get out of bed and lie there going back over the last 3-4 days until I remember something that set it off THIS time. Then I crawl (sometimes literally) into a hot shower. Congratulations on keeping up with your workouts.

     
  3. Dorothy Stahlnecker, 18. June 2008, 4:38

    Good luck, it’s so hard to maintain that kind of workout pattern. Wishing you success and that your muscles hurt less as you move forward.

    Dorothy from grammology
    remember to call gram
    grammology.com

     
  4. claire, 18. June 2008, 17:43

    no pain, no gain!
    you have my sympathy though, I often feel theres too much to be done in a day and not enough time to do it.

     
  5. lightening, 19. June 2008, 13:07

    Sharon - ROFLOL.

    River - :) Yeah, that happens to me some days too. At least the exercise now gives me something to blame it on. ;)

    Dorothy - thanks. They’re not this bad every week. Must be out of practise or something????

    Claire - so they say. :) I don’t mind, really. I like the thought that something is happening. At least I HOPE something is happening!!!!

     

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