Exercise

I’ve been trying to get back into some regular exercise but it just isn’t happening like I’d like. In the past week, I’ve managed some sort of exercise on three days. I walked earlier in the week and then again yesterday. Today I rode my bike for the first time since my minor accident in February. The delay in riding my bike hasn’t been intentional but pretty much a matter of procrastination. I’d intended to take it to the shop to have it checked out and have yet to do that. I rode it today anyway because my left foot was hurting from my walk and I was determined to get outside and do something. Unfortunately, I got home and within an hour I started feeling twinges of pain in my left calf muscle. It’s just a tiny pain but it feels much like the pain I’ve had in the right calf muscle before. It wasn’t a particularly hard ride…about 15-20 minutes each way to a local shopping center. Anyway, it’s very frustrating again. It was a bit cool tonight so my guess is that my muscle didn’t warm up properly…which means I probably should have opted for something warmer than the shorts.

On a more positive note, I also started doing some abdominal exercises on my own today. I’d been doing some of them on the Wii programs but had to stop because they were getting too hard too quickly. I had been really pleased at my accomplishments earlier in the year so hopefully I will get back to where I was before and continue. I’m mostly doing bicycle crunches, modified push ups, and plank exercises to start and managed at least ten minutes today.