Less Active

Yesterday and today have been a strong lesson in listening to my body.

I thought I felt okay after my brief stint on the trainer yesterday. I certainly felt fine for most of the day. But then when I got to last night I found myself crashing into unconsciousness on the couch at 7:30. I woke up briefly to move myself to bed before wiping out completely at 8:30 and sleeping for the next 10 hours. Feeling fine or not, that isn't normal for me.

Our daughter has been ill with a nasty cold for the last week or so and my wife and I have been marvelling at the fact that we have managed to avoid it. Up until now. We are both beginning to feel a little under the weather. I am not sure whether my sudden onset of extreme fatigue is due to a building cold, or just due to the fact that my body may still be expending a lot of energy trying to heal my shoulder. Doesn't really matter to be honest. The main message I got from last night was that my body was demanding rest.

If it is my shoulder though then it is a bit of a wake up call. The recovery has been going very easily for the last week. The easy recovery has perhaps lulled me into a false sense of security about the condition my body is in. The temptation is to assume that since my body feels pretty okay that it is basically running at full capacity. However, I suspect that isn't the case. In fact I suspect that my body is expending more resources putting my shoulder back together than I have realised.

With all this in mind this morning I took my body's advice and stayed off the trainer today. Whether it is the cold or the shoulder, I interpreted last night's fatigue as my body was telling me that it needs more rest and so I took its advice and gave it some.

After my day of rest I am feeling pretty okay now and so the plan is to get on the trainer for a brief spell tomorrow morning. I am hoping that the day of rest today will mean that my healing has progressed a bit further and being on the trainer doesn't wipe me out quite so much.

As with all these things though I will see how I am going in the morning though.

One step at a time.