Alright so I've been doing this exercise thing since March and 3 months into it, Tim says he wants to dedicate 10 minutes of our session to teaching me how to stretch......probably since I was complaining so much about my sore muscles. We doubled up on personal training last week because he was out the week before. Wednesday he kicked my BOOTIE! My legs were so sore, my thighs felt like they were swollen. Usually I have a week to recover and doing the same workout on Friday and Monday but on my own so I can take it slow but not this time. No, I had to see him yet again on Friday. "Thankfully" he gave my legs a rest and concentrated on abs.....I put thankfully in quotations because my stomach and lower back still hurt. It even hurts to turn and check my blindspots while driving.
So back to the very first stretching we've done in 3 months. We started at the calves and worked our way up. Easy! Not! I think we did a total of three stretches before we...I... had to quit. The calf stretch was fine except for the fact that leaning my weight on my wrists on the wall while "breathing into the stretch" was a little uncomfortable for my previously broken wrists. Then it was time to stretch the glutes. He had me go to the plank position but then bring my knee up and over to the opposite side of my body, I basically looked like a hot puffy soft pretzel. It did feel like a good stretch though. Finally, what was not supposed to hurt me was the rock 'n' roll stretch. Laying down, I rock my hips up so they lift off the ground then roll back up with my knees as far apart as I can and stretch my hands out in front of me on the floor as far as I can. 15 or so of those later and my hip cramped. It felt like it popped out of place. Now I've got that song by Crime Mob stuck in my head "I like it when she rock them hips, then wave and sip" cause I needed a drink after that one.
