I’ve been getting used to doing my workouts at home, and that’s a good thing. I finally feel like I have some good workout equipment (although there are a lot of things I wish I had). I’m able to feel like I’m doing a workout and not just goofing around while doing it. I can get my heart rate up and I’m sweating a lot. And I’ve had some moments of muscle soreness which made me really happy. I know that I’m working my muscles if I’m getting sore.
But this past week, I struggled a lot too. It was a combination of things that affected my workouts. First, I’m dealing with being sick. I feel pretty certain that it’s bronchitis because of how I’ve been feeling. But that also means that I’m out of breath from just doing the workouts. I’m coughing constantly, and even more when I’m breathing hard. It makes the workouts even harder than normal and requires me to take more breaks than I normally would need. I’ve dealt with this before and I know it will take a long time to recover, but I will get better. And because of how my symptoms are, I still feel pretty certain that it’s not COVID-19, which is good.
But I also was dealing with my monthly pain and nausea. I’ve been dealing with that for long enough that I am very used to it. But I’m only used to doing workouts with pain and nausea when I’m at the Orangetheory studio. When I’m in class at the studio, there are so many ways I can modify things. There are different pieces of equipment that I can use to make the exercise easier on me or to do a completely different exercise. I don’t really have that option when working out at home.
For example, any plank work that I had to do was so hard on me. Normally, I would use the bench for my hands so I wasn’t really face down. I looked around my house for what I could use to replicate that, and I wasn’t able to come up with a good option. The closest I had was using a step stool, but it wasn’t stable enough when I was using my hands on it. I thought about just standing and leaning on my walls, but that made it not make me nauseous but I didn’t feel like I was working out. I’m going to keep looking around my house for things I could use since I know I will still be nauseous this week, but I’m open to any suggestions if anyone knows of anything I could try using.
There were a few other things that I would have loved to have modified if I had more options with my weights. I am very limited in my house with what I can use as weights. Even the weights I bought only are a fraction of what I’m used to using. So I know there are some exercises that I’m doing with weights that don’t feel like they are doing much. It’s better than doing nothing, but it’s a bit annoying when I know I could do more if I had what I needed.
I know I’ll have the same struggles this week because neither issue will be better. The pain and nausea might not be an issue at the end of the week, but it might still be. But the issues from being sick will be something I probably will be dealing with throughout this month. I do need to figure out how I can modify things without having all the stuff I’m used to using. I’m planning on reaching out to some of my coaches to get their advice, but I know that a lot of things that others have suggested to me are not things I have in my house. Maybe I’ll need to do some more online shopping to get more equipment just to be able to do it. But I’m hoping my coaches will be able to suggest different exercises I can try in place of the ones I can’t do.
There are so many things I miss from my normal life right now, and my workouts are a big one that I miss. I miss my friends, my coaches, what I can accomplish, and feeling so strong. I never knew I could miss workouts this much. I know that everyone around the world is going through this same thing, so everyone is missing stuff. And at least I have the at-home workouts to make it as close to normal as possible. And I just have to keep pushing myself however I can so when we are able to be back in class that I’m ready to get back into it full force!
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