It can be easy to want to take a day off of training; especially if you're really sore or have minor injuries. It can also be easy to just drop things and just "take it easy" for a day or two. I look at it as, if I took it easy or even too easy, something won't feel right. I've had my fair share of minor things and broke through skin or worked a little too hard but I have always believed that being active helps with recovery.
A couple days ago, I pushed a little too hard doing a deck of cards workout and ended up pulling muscles around the right side of my lower back and hip areas. Luckily it wasn't severe enough to not even get off the floor or just being in pure agony on a scale of 11 out of 10 but I did feel it and knew something wasn't right. I just went with my instincts and rehabbing those areas for now doing little things. It's not the same as taking it easy and doing nothing, I'm not programmed that way. So far, just doing things like 1 minute bear crawls, isometrics and joint loosening have been a huge help.
Sometime before that, I did a live video on Tik Tok doing a workout that I made up and only did it the one time. The whole workout took about 30 minutes including rest periods. Here's what I did......
-10 Round Superset Of
10 Strikes Of The 25 lb Sledgehammer
1 Thor Catches Loki W/ 73 lb Hammer (Walking the hands up and down with a heavy sledgehammer)
-5 sets of 10 each arm of High Pulls W/ 70 lb Kettlebell
-Finisher was swinging the 15 lb Indian Clubs as many times as possible
It was a pretty hard workout and really got my cardio up along with strength training, plus I was doing it in less than freezing weather. I got some bad discomfort in my low back the next day and had to rehab for a few days which consisted of mainly joint loosening, some bridging and animal moves at a slower pace. Things happen and you have to expect the unexpected at times. Some people just shrug it off and think nothing of it but others might have some discomfort or a little minor injury that will heal quick and treat it as so dramatically epic you'd think they should win an Oscar for how they performed the feeling.
We never know what will creep up on us and we sometimes get so enthralled on how to treat an injury that we don't know if it'll lead to something very severe later or it'll just be gone in a flash. The important thing is to avoid injuries as much as possible but not be so damn cautious that it causes fear. Now if you have severe injuries and there's no way around them, that's a whole other story. Train with the intention that you are conditioning the body to be resilient but also be mindful of taking care of yourself if something were to happen.
As we get older, being resilient is far more important than looking like a million bucks. With the right tools and nutrition, you can look like a fitness model at 40 or 50 but if you get hurt too frequently and your body tends to get injured quicker, looking good is not going to save your ass. Train to be resilient and strengthen the body to the degree where breaking down is less likely to happen. Train with intent but be safe in the process as well.
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