Cathe,
I'm hoping you can help me. I was so gung-ho starting your workouts two or three weeks ago and was loving Drill Max and Core Max and was slowing moving into more of your workouts...and then I threw my back out. I'm not sure if I did something wrong in Drill Max (that's the one I'd done the night before I realized I was injured) or if it's just my history of back problems...or if it was simply sitting at my laptop for a few hours in the wrong position. I'm not criticizing your workouts because I honestly love them. I'm just trying to figure out if there was something I should've done differently so it doesn't happen again.
Here are the facts as I know them, in no particular order:
1) I prob need new workout shoes and my floor, while wood, has concrete underneath it. I'm thinking of doing future workouts on my living room platform floor, which is wood, with air underneath it, before you reach the concrete base. It's more rebounding, so will prob be more cushioning.
2) I'm hardly new to working out, starting with the Firm in the late 80's. I stuck with Anna Benson's Firms until she had to sell the company, then I followed her over to FitPrime, then I started in doing Tracie Long's TLT/TLP's, eventually winding up with Christi Taylor and Sharon Twombly's before I tried your workouts. I'd always heard you did the most intense workouts of anyone, so even though I'd known about you for years, I was honestly afraid of you! But it was time to raise the bar, so I went for it.
3) Besides all the workouts I've mentioned doing, I also do a little yoga or pilates a couple of times a week and stretch, stretch, stretch.
4) I went to the chiropractor twice this week, who told me I was on the verge of a slipped disk! So no working out again till next week. I just did stretches this morning and will slowly work back up.
In the meantime, anything I should be extra careful of? Is it the high impact that could be affecting me so badly? I'm happy to modify if I must, but I really want to feel like I've worked myself hard. I'm no spring chicken anymore
but I can keep up with most of the 30-somethings I know.
I realize you're filming the new workouts this weekend, but when you - or anyone else on the Forum - has a chance to answer, I'd be very grateful for the feedback.
All the Best,
Annie
I'm hoping you can help me. I was so gung-ho starting your workouts two or three weeks ago and was loving Drill Max and Core Max and was slowing moving into more of your workouts...and then I threw my back out. I'm not sure if I did something wrong in Drill Max (that's the one I'd done the night before I realized I was injured) or if it's just my history of back problems...or if it was simply sitting at my laptop for a few hours in the wrong position. I'm not criticizing your workouts because I honestly love them. I'm just trying to figure out if there was something I should've done differently so it doesn't happen again.
Here are the facts as I know them, in no particular order:
1) I prob need new workout shoes and my floor, while wood, has concrete underneath it. I'm thinking of doing future workouts on my living room platform floor, which is wood, with air underneath it, before you reach the concrete base. It's more rebounding, so will prob be more cushioning.
2) I'm hardly new to working out, starting with the Firm in the late 80's. I stuck with Anna Benson's Firms until she had to sell the company, then I followed her over to FitPrime, then I started in doing Tracie Long's TLT/TLP's, eventually winding up with Christi Taylor and Sharon Twombly's before I tried your workouts. I'd always heard you did the most intense workouts of anyone, so even though I'd known about you for years, I was honestly afraid of you! But it was time to raise the bar, so I went for it.
3) Besides all the workouts I've mentioned doing, I also do a little yoga or pilates a couple of times a week and stretch, stretch, stretch.
4) I went to the chiropractor twice this week, who told me I was on the verge of a slipped disk! So no working out again till next week. I just did stretches this morning and will slowly work back up.
In the meantime, anything I should be extra careful of? Is it the high impact that could be affecting me so badly? I'm happy to modify if I must, but I really want to feel like I've worked myself hard. I'm no spring chicken anymore
but I can keep up with most of the 30-somethings I know.I realize you're filming the new workouts this weekend, but when you - or anyone else on the Forum - has a chance to answer, I'd be very grateful for the feedback.
All the Best,
Annie
