When Sore is a Good Thing
I decided that I am going to kick this plateau where it counts and get back into things. Well, not so much get back into things as try something new. I’ve added a large amount of weight training into my routine and man, was I sore yesterday. This morning was no treat either, but I got through the whole routine again and I feel great about that.
When I lived back in the States, I did a few physical labor jobs. I can tell you from what I’ve felt this week, there is nothing like a desk job to make you forget how good it feels to go out and get something physical done. Be it mowing the lawn, gardening…any sort of hard physical labor. It’s as if your brain releases the hormone ‘satisfaction’ along with everything else.
Before I have always been a bit nervous about doing weights. It seemed to me that the moment I started doing a weights routine, I stopped losing weight. I know there is the whole ‘you’re building muscle’ thing, but the weight stayed the same for weeks.
This weekend I was thinking about the plateau I’m in and thinking about the gym. Then it occurred to me – there would be no possible harm in starting weights up now because I’m already in a plateau.
Yes, I know. I’m a genius like that sometimes.
I will probably have to stop going to the gym sometime in the next few months because we could really use the money otherwise. (Sad face.) So I figure even if the weight training stalls my weight loss a bit longer, that’s okay because I’ll be building muscles in ways I won’t be able to do once I’m out of the gym.
How about you? Do you use weights?
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