Burning, burning, burning legs of fire

Went to class on Tuesday, took it easy when I lead warm up so I focused on the legs. It's funny how fast you lose your muscle tone if don't continue to maintain it. As you know I haven't done much of anything the past month with yesterday's warm up and forms practice, my legs are burning to today :) Looking forward to being able to train again in a few weeks. I'm really going to have to focus if I intend to peak at the right time. I'm glad I have some great classmates to help me out.

Some bad ...... Some good

With eye injury I haven't been able to do any training but I'm getting in lots of time with my family. Sometimes when life throws a detour in you way, it's best to take it in stride and make the most of you situation. I have been able to met some of my personal goals the past Cooke of weeks. So yah! I am really surprised at the activities that effect your eye in one way or another. For example, Just tapping your feet causes your eye to bounce and drinking water rapidly causes a pressure change in your eyes. Wow. I would have never guessed how interlinked the body is. I am attaching a YouTube video of the surgery I had. After seeing it, I realized why my eye hurt so much for a week. I'm just having the laser part done to my left eye to prevent it from tearing and my recovery time should only be a couple of weeks. Looking forward to training again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YftCbXIw11k&feature=youtube_gdata_player Even with this set back I'm positive about my situation. It could always be worse but if you have a positive outlook, things are always going to work out. You can not control 100% of your surroundings or situations but you can control 100% of how you respond it. Take control and do your best with what you have and life will always be rosy.

Up and running.........sort of

Today I took a big step in accomplishing one of my personal goals. I resigned my seat on Town Council so I can run in the mayoral by-election on May 1. It was a bit scary to give up something you love doing to chase your dreams but as the saying goes "nothing risked, nothing gained" I think my eye is healing, don't really know until my next check up and surgery. Still can't see out of the eye. Hoping it's healing and I will be able to see when they do surgery on my left eye. I haven't done much training the past couple weeks. Still taking it easy as per orders but I chomping at the bit to go. I know that it would be hazardous to my eyes if I start pushing myself before they are totally healed. I will continue to add to my activities every week until I'm 100%. I will need a lot of help from my fellow classmates when I'm able to return.

Ok'd to start up......slow and steady for 5/6 weeks

Just had my Dr appointment today and everything looks fine and is healing nicely. I am now allowed to work with light duties and train but only little bit at a time. Time frame till full thortle...5/6 weeks. No running or anything that would cause impact for my eyes. Extremely happy that things are heading and my sight was saved. You really don't know what you have until your are at a point where you may lose what you have. How many of us take our senses for granted? Have you every wondered what it would be like without one of your senses? Just want to highlight the fact that we must take better care of ourselves. Now that my right eye is healing, I will be having surgery on my left eye on April 3 to laser the holes in my rentia to prevent a tear in that eye. The surgery will be less invavise and recovery time will not be as long. No matter how well you plan things out, you will always face some obstacles or challenges. How you deal with them will determine how successful your plans turn out. There is always some kind of adjustment that can be made. Tomorrow I start again, slowly but it's going in the right direction again.

:(

I waiting here at the Royal Alex to get emergency eye surgery for a superior tear on my retinal. :( this makes me sad and nervous. I don't like needles and people touching my eye. Today, they will be doing both. According to my wife this means no more jogging, jumping jacks, squat thrusts, etc or any activity that has impact a associated with it. I think see is right. I will have to adjust my training. Even though this is a bad situation for me. I'm glad is was aware of my body and realized that something was wrong and went in to seek professesonial help from my optometrist. If I would have waited another day or so I would be blind. Not a very nice outcome if that would happen. You know your body the best. It has been with you since day one and it will tell you when things aren't right. You just have to listen. After the surgery, I'm on bed rest for about a week. Will have to re-evaluate everything after that.

Learning

My body is sore but I'm keeping up with my routine. I don't think I will be jogging tomorrow, so I will ride the bike for any extra half hour. By pushing my body to do more, I've started to learn how to listen to it. You can always alter a technique or workout to accommodate an injury. An injury doesn't mean that you can't, it just raises the questions of how can I? There are many paths to your goal don't let one road block derail you. I've chosen a weapon.... The nunchuk...with some help on Saturday I think I have the basics for the form down. Now the prefect it and make it mine. Had a great time swimming with my kids today. We haven't done that in a while. It's easier to put things aside and spend time with them when it's one of your goals. Now back to my agenda reading for tomorrows meeting. Thanks for all the help.

the body strikes back......

I'm surprised my shoulder lasted this long.  I have had a bad shoulder for quite some time, maybe since I was in high school.  Remember those days when we thought we were indestructible?  I'm guessing that I threw it out and did considerable damage to it then and never had healed properly.  Now, whenever I put to  much stress or throw over hand with some force my right shoulder hurts for a few days.  Today, after my first set of push up I could feel it start to rebel. Good thing tomorrow is my run and 1/4 day, so I can let it rest a little.
Remember that no matter how much we think you are like superman/woman, we are not.  We must take care of ourselves now or suffer the consequences in the future. Lesson learned.