Hello peeps!
Still following my DH's coaching and not complaining about not being able to work hard enough.
This morning I did an "easy" spin on the bike for an hour with an average HR of 150. When I was finished, my DH said, "Isn't it nice not to kill yourself on every workout?" Hmmm...I guess.
Tomorrow I get to ride hard and DH is going to go with me. He usually kills me and I get great averages (speed-wise) when I ride with him, so I'm looking forward to it.
I finally went and had my shoulder checked out by a great sports medicine doctor we have in town. The police department uses him a lot. It's bothered me off and on for about 5 or 6 years, but really flared up since March. I thought that was odd since I'd taken a break from weights. It's my rotator cuff. He's not sure if it's a sprain or a tear and can't tell without an MRI but my insurance is funky and needs lots of documentation (the beauty of going to him since he's so familiar with it b/c of all the cops). He decided to try therapy first and is giving me his best shoulder guy (they have a bunch of PT's there and I ran into a friend who has just gone through 4 weeks of therapy and she didn't even get to see this guy!). He also gave me a script for an anti-inflammatory. He was going to give me a cortisone shot but then he remembered that my insurance would pay for the shot but then wouldn't pay for my visit. I'm glad he knew that b/c I didn't! He also wanted to take an x-ray to make sure there isn't any arthritis, but the x-ray machine had just gone down that morning and they were waiting for the repair person. I also have frozen shoulder from not moving it in certain directions due to the pain. He said I'm way too young to have that. I go to therapy today and I go back to the doctor in 4 weeks. He's SUPER fit and SUPER muscular. Gotta love that in a doctor! I hope the therapy does the trick. Oh - and when you lift, the muscle that you build up around it helps to support the shoulder. When you quit, there is nothing to support the weight of your arm, hence all the pain. Who knew?
He also cycles and was quite impressed with my crash injuries.
I did tell him that although I hit on the side of my shoulder, it didn't seem to aggravate it any more than it already was. I'm pretty sure my head took the brunt of the impact!
Suz
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