I Overdid It This Past Weekend
I really wanted to get out and about this past weekend and enjoy the great outdoors. I actually love being outside, but life has me cooped up in the house most days.
We decided to go hiking on Saturday and went on a local intermediate trail. Hehe… intermediate should have been the first clue to perhaps look for an easier trail. While the trail really wasn’t too difficult, for someone like me with a lot of extra baggage (weight), I started feeling my heart pound outside of my chest after the first big hill. For a few brief moments I thought that was it and I was going to collape and roll down the hill. Thankfully, I recovered after a few minutes of rest and carried on for the rest of the trail. In all, it was about an hour of hiking.
Sunday, we went out again and took a different leg of the same trail system. It didn’t have as steep of terrain, but we did climb higher overall. We were hiking for about an hour and a half. After arriving back home, I sat down for a while and checked my email. When I got up I almost fell because my right calf hurt so bad. I overdid it and I really felt it yesterday morning. Today it is feeling better overall and I only have a slight limp.
I tend to do that when starting to exercise more. I go a little overboard, hurt myself, then don’t exercise and then I basically quit. I have to find that happy place where I can do enough exercise to do good for my body, yet not too much to where I’m hurting for days afterwards.
One of these days I’ll share my Pilates experience with you. That was a doozy.
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Ugh I hate that feeling! I sometimes overdo it when I first get back on the elliptical after not being on it for a while, that heart pounding is a familiar feeling! Here’s to working out being easier and easier each time. 
Whenever I start a new exercise program, I always forget stretching. As long as I stretch after (and a little before), I don’t end up with painfully sore muscles.
Beth - good point. I didn’t stretch at all before the hike. How does the saying go? An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure?
[...] but frustrated because every weekend I injure myself. The first weekend of hiking left me with a hurt calf. The weekend after was a knee [...]
I do exactly the same thing when I start trying to live healthier. Once I recover I sort of feel like it was necessary to help me get a realistic idea of my limits now, not what they were in the past. It helps me calibrate my own expectations of myself