Even though it is currently the month-long Hell Week right now, I technically didn’t have any Hell Week workouts this past week. I will get my 4 workouts in to earn my shirt, but I still have a little more time before the next official workout happens when I do my workouts. But that didn’t make this past week any easier for me because it was when I was dealing with really bad pain and nausea.
The week didn’t start off too bad with pain and nausea, but I was dealing with extreme fatigue. Even just getting dressed was exhausting me. I think this was related to all my other hormonal issues and not that I’m sick, but I wasn’t expecting it. But starting on Wednesday, the pain and nausea really kicked in. And it hit me so hard. I got to the point where I was crying a lot because of how awful I felt. But I really tried to push through and do the best that I could.
I went a lot easier on myself because of how I was feeling. I didn’t make my weights as heavy as I normally would. And sometimes I didn’t use weights for some exercises. I just did the movements and tried. And I got into the same feeling of wondering if I was doing enough and having to remind myself that doing something is better than doing nothing.
Fortunately, the workouts this past week didn’t have a ton of exercises that would make nausea worse. I pretty much can’t do face down exercises like planks or I honestly feel like I would throw up. And I rarely am lucky enough to not have to deal with those exercises when I feel sick. But this past week didn’t really have much of those. And the few that were in the exercises were very easy for me to modify. So I do have to focus on that being a positive thing because that was a nice treat for me.
And even with how hard the Zoom workout was, I managed to make it through it. My coach knew I was having a tough time and she let me know there wouldn’t be any face down exercises. The main modifications I had to make were with the mini-bands. Some exercises had mini-bands on our legs while we did squats and I tried to always start those exercises with the bands. And if it was getting too hard on my hips, then I’d take it off to finish the exercise.
I have been doing more jump rope work recently, but I didn’t do any this past week. Jumping rope would make my nausea so much worse and it’s not worth me trying to do it. Maybe I could do a little bit of it, but I also know that’s a really risky thing to do because it could also make me feel awful very quickly. But honestly, I didn’t feel like I was up for it either. I wasn’t upset that I couldn’t do it. I just felt off and I let myself feel that way and not try to force myself to do anything I can’t handle.
I’m hoping this week will be a bit better for me. I’m not sure if it will, because I’m still feeling off. This might last through this entire week, but I’m hoping it might only last a few days. I won’t know until I feel better, which is a little frustrating. I wish I knew that I would feel better on a certain day so I could plan accordingly. But I just have to take it day by day and hope that I am really doing the best that I can.
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