The biggest struggle I had during this past week of workouts was the side effects I have been experiencing from increasing the dosage of my medication. Unfortunately, this past week was worse for me than the week before and I really had to work around feeling horrible. But as always, I tried my best and made the most of each workout I had.
My Monday workouts shouldn’t really be affected by the medication since I don’t take it until after my workout on Mondays. I know sometimes I might still be feeling it from the dosage the week before, but I’m expecting Mondays to not be too bad for me. And that’s how this past Monday went. Because I was expecting things to be this way, I tried to make the most of that workout since I wasn’t sure how the rest of the week would go for me. On Monday, the workout focus was all about doing push paces with a surge before returning to a base pace. I did my push pace resistance level during the surges but increased my pedaling speed to try to make things just a little harder for me. I did struggle a little during the row block since we were getting on and off the rower and that is always hard for my hips, but I did better than I have been doing recently and I was grateful that I was not taking too much time to do that.
The worst day of this past week was on Tuesday. I was feeling pretty horrible overnight the night before, but I was feeling much better by the morning so I thought maybe I was over the worst of it. Unfortunately, my nausea really hit me hard and I had to leave the workout multiple times to be sick in the bathroom. This is still a rare thing for me to experience, so I’m grateful for that. But because the nausea was so bad and it happened multiple times, it was a lot worse than I’ve experienced in class. And without being too gross, I had been sick enough that there wasn’t anything left in my stomach, so being sick was starting to be a bit more painful. I didn’t leave class early, but I really was struggling to keep going. Toward the end of class, I was really hesitant to do different exercises because I wasn’t sure what would trigger the nausea again and I was scared to be sick.
Wednesday was slightly better than Tuesday, but it was still not a great day. But I wanted to pull myself together for Thursday because we had a signature workout. This time, we had The Chipper. I’ve done this signature workout before, but the last time I did it was about a year and a half ago so it’s been a while. The idea of The Chipper is that you chip away at the workout as you go. For cardio, that means every push pace got 30 seconds shorter each time. For rowing, we had squat jumps and rowing and every interval got shorter and we had less time to get the work done. And on the floor, we had 7 main exercises and each one had 5 fewer reps than the one before. I was pretty happy with what I was able to do on the bike for the cardio block. For the rowing, I never really was able to finish all the work before the next interval started, but I think that had more to do with how long it takes me to do squats with calf raises compared to squat jumps. That little extra time adds up and I know I was always the last person to sit down on the rower. And on the floor, we were supposed to do an anchor exercise between each of the main exercises. The anchor exercise was doing front-to-back hops, and I just ended up skipping those because I knew I couldn’t do them. Because I skipped those exercises, I was able to get through all the other exercises in the floor block.
I’m hoping that this week of workouts will go a little better for me, but it’s impossible for me to know how my medication will affect me. Maybe I won’t have as extreme side effects or maybe it will be worse. I’m hoping that it will get better as my body gets used to the new dosage. I also have the possibility that I might be dealing with my monthly pain and nausea next week, so that could affect things. I’m really ready to have another good week of workouts and I’m worried that it might not happen for a little while. But all I can do is keep going and doing the best that I can each week. I know it’s better than doing nothing and eventually things will be better for me.
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