This past week of workouts wasn’t that great for me. I have had plenty of off weeks in the past, but I feel like lately, it has mainly been a mental struggle. It’s not often a physical struggle outside of the normal physical issues I have. But this past week was almost all of a physical struggle, but I’m ok with it.
I had gotten my second vaccine last Sunday. I have had some friends have no reaction to the second vaccine and some friends have reactions that lasted a day or two. I had expected I would likely need Monday off, and I was right. I was so exhausted and couldn’t imagine trying to work out. And I started to have some swelling in my arm (a totally normal reaction). It wasn’t until a bit later on Monday that my arm started to hurt.
And the pain and swelling in my arm lasted the entire week. The pain was pretty bad through Thursday but I wasn’t out of pain until Sunday (7 days after my vaccine). While the swelling was annoying, it was the pain that really prevented me from doing the workouts I was hoping to do.
The free OTF Live classes continued this past week and I had hoped to do at least one of them. But I just wasn’t able to do that. I did do some workouts on my own on Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday; and I know that is ok. But it wasn’t my plan and I had to remind myself that it’s ok if things aren’t the way I hoped them to go. I mean, the entire past year has been a lesson in things not going as planned.
I’m hoping that this week I will be able to get back to more normal workouts. I will have to switch up my workout schedule a little due to some things happening in my life, but that’s fine. And as far as I know, the free OTF Live classes have ended so I will need to do my own workout plan. And this week could potentially be the last week of all home workouts. But I think that it might go a little longer than I originally thought.
Next week, I will be considered fully vaccinated. And for a while, my plan has been to start the OTF Outdoor workouts when that happens. But there’s also the chance that the studios are going to be reopening in a week or two because of how things have been going in LA. And if I’m being honest, if it’s looking like it’s only another week or two I’d have to wait, it might be worth the wait. The Outdoor class isn’t that far from me, but it’s not super close. And I have to see what my schedule is like and how that compares to the Outdoor class schedule.
I’m grateful that I will have some options soon with my workouts. This past year has been a journey with me realizing what I crave with my workouts. And I want to find something that gives me a sense of normalcy again, and I know getting back to a regular workout routine will do that.
And in a weird way, having this off workout week that felt so odd was the biggest step I took toward getting my normal workouts back. So I guess I have to be grateful for the struggles I had.
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