I just realized - I never made an entry for yoga yesterday. Probably because
there was nothing much special to report on. Except that it gelt hotter than
it's ever been. It seems I've said that probably 4-5 times, but I can tell you
with certainty that this time felt hottest. Fortunately, I've learned how to
pace myself so that I don't burn myself out.
My biggest hope for the
class was to see it set my right foot back to normal. One of the ways I can
tell how inflammed the tissue is is during some of the kneeling poses - when my
ankle is at its greatest point of flexion, and my weight is on top of it. If it
hurts when the pressure is released, I know inflammation remains. Fortunately
it was only a mild annoyance on the pain scale, so the hope was there. Even
still, this morning and throughout the day today I popped ibuprofin and aspirin
- thinking that maybe if I kept the inflammation down in the first place, it
wouldn't get worse. That experiment is still in progress (more on that
later).
So tonight was the legs & back workout again. Increase
weights on a few of the exercises, and managed a total of 74 pullups - so that
number is slowly increasing by a few each time.
Hmm.. not much to say
other than that. Tough to always come up with something to say with strength
training - I lift things up, and put them down. Or, rather, in this case - I go
into a lunge, and come back up.
After that workout, I started
experimenting with another treatment for my foot (maybe this entry should have
been titled differently?) - alternating cold and hot. So while I watched some
TV for about an hour, I dunked my foot into cold water for 5-10 minutes,
followed by dunking it in hot water for 5-10 minutes. The idea is that cold
constricts tissue and cuts out inflammation, but then the heat causes a rush of
blood flow and nutrients to promote healing. I'm also going to put a heat pad
on the top of my foot overnight and see if that helps. It's kind of a gamble -
since inflammation is due to swollen tissue, and heat causes things to expand -
it may actually result in a set back. I guess we'll see.
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