Just A Big Elastic

This past Friday I started physio for my shoulder.  The last month things have gone a little downhill and I am getting desperate to fix it.  Loss of feeling and strength, pain and aching and loss of sleep are starting to take its toll.  On Friday I left the clinic and was sent home with 2 big elastics and a list of exercises.  I have to be honest and say that I couldn’t believe that after everything I do in my training, that a few exercises with a giant elastic was going to have any impact whatsoever.  It seems I might be wrong.  Friday night, all day Saturday and still today, I have a feeling in my arms that I have done all 50,000 push ups in one evening.  I’ve been told that I need to build on the rotator muscles and some of the muscles in my neck.  As piddley as these exercises may appear, they seem to be having some impact on my body already (hopefully soon it will be positive). 

 What I am finding to be the most disheartening is the thought that I may be letting down others.  If it’s just myself affected, that’s one thing but if my inabilities start having a negative impact on others around me, their training and their goals; that’s where I have a hard time.  I know that I need to progress wisely and be patient with myself, which is challenging since I have so much to work on right now. 

So I will give the big elastic a chance and work on all the muscles I have been neglecting (without even knowing it) and keep moving forward.

Alana Regier

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