In March a friend of mine got married in Puerto Rico, I had been working out regularly leading up to the trip, but after I got home I haven’t been to the gym anywhere near as regularly. In fact, over the last three months I haven’t exercised much outside of walking the dog.
This leads to this past Sunday, knowing I needed to get back into the gym I was on the search for a new workout. All my life I have worked out and lifted weights for bulk rather than…
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…lean muscle, which makes it hard to get back into lifting, especially when years of basketball have essentially destroyed my ankles and weakened my knees. So, I found a workout worth trying, it targeted everything I was looking to focus on and wouldn’t put an extreme amount of stress on my knees and what exercises do put stress on my knees, I’m looking at you lunges, I can just nix from the workout.
So, on Sunday, I head to the gym. Taking care of business, skipping a couple workouts as some of these lifts were a bit foreign to my body, but for the most part completing the whole circuit. I get home, tired, but satisfied. Go to bed, good night’s sleep, but the next morning…
You see, I sit at a desk all day long typing and clicking away on a mouse. My arms sit at pretty much 45-degree angles for 8-9 hours a day, moving very little that entire time as my fingers do all the work. Therefore, the tendons in my arms, specifically on the inside of my elbow have tightened beyond what they should be. That said, when I go work out, stretching those tendons and using them to lift weights they can shredded. Couple that with sleeping and not realizing my arms should probably be straight at my sides rather than bent under my pillow and I wake up and can hardly straighten them.
The best way to describe it is to say my arms were so sore I looked like a T-rex or Frankenstein’s monster, lurching about with my arms dangling at my side.
I’m not sure there is much of a lesson to be learned here other than maybe I should consider a different posture while I work and to make sure I continue going to the gym, but thankfully my arms aren’t on fire anymore… at least not as bad as they were.
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