After completing my goal of at least 200 workouts in 2023, I immediately started on my workout goals for 2024! I got in 3 workouts this past week, which isn’t necessarily my normal workout week, but it’s what worked best for me. I have my tradition of working out on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, and because of the NYE workout, I only did 3 workouts for the first week of the year since I didn’t want to do 5 workouts in a week. I know I could have done it, but it didn’t feel right. I also worried about how I would feel this week, and I didn’t want to push it.
My New Year’s Day workout was a 2 group class since I didn’t go at my normal workout time. I thought maybe it would still be a 3 group class since the classes at the beginning of the year can be pretty full, but I think it was still a bit early for the crowd so it wasn’t a packed class. It’s always a nice change for me when I get a 2 group class in my schedule since I rarely take them. Typically, they only happen on holidays since I have that day off of work and don’t have to wake up as early to get to my workout. And I think it was a nice class to ease into the week with because it focused a lot on base pace so I wasn’t going too crazy. I also didn’t get that much sleep the night before since I was out, so even with sleeping in, I didn’t have as much sleep as I would have liked.
I wasn’t worried about how I was going to feel in Monday’s class, other than being tired. But I was worried about how I would feel on Tuesday and Wednesday. I increased my injectable medication this past week. This was the first increase I’ve had in over a year, and I know that every time I’ve increased it, the side effects got worse for a bit. I still have been having side effects at the old dosage, but they can vary from week to week. I think it just depends on the exact spot I do the injection. Sometimes I get it in the right spot and things aren’t as bad. But it’s hard for me to predict how I will feel. But I had a good idea that I would feel pretty off after the new dosage. I didn’t do my injection until after my Monday class since I wasn’t sure if I’d have an immediate reaction. And throughout the day on Monday, I was feeling some side effects. They weren’t as bad as they have been at times, but it was a weird queasy and uneasy feeling. I don’t know how to explain the different types of nausea I experience, but this was different from any other type I have dealt with. The only good thing was that I wasn’t getting physically ill on Monday, so I had high hopes about how I would feel in my workouts.
Unfortunately, something in my workouts must have triggered something in my system because on both days I had to leave class for a break to be sick in the bathroom. This is something that rarely happens to me, but it’s happened before and I know what I need to do so that I can be ok to be back in the workout. I’m sure it sounds crazy to come back to work out after being sick, but it’s something I’ve gotten used to from other nausea I experienced. If I know what exercise triggered it, I just make modifications so that I don’t have to go through that again. And I usually avoid exercises that have me in a plank or face down since I know those can make me feel really nauseous.
But even with being sick in both of my other workouts this past week, I feel really good about the workouts I did. I focused on what I could do without feeling worse and tried to go harder on those to make up for what I wasn’t able to do. I also was grateful that I wasn’t feeling worse because I have experienced much more extreme side effects in the past. I know that worse side effects can hit me any week and just because this past week wasn’t as bad as expected I’m in the clear. But it was nice that I was able to start 2024 with some good workouts, even if they weren’t the best that I could do.
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