After my run last Thursday, my foot soreness didn't go away as I had hoped. So, I stopped running until I find out what's going on. Sunday, I went for a 32 mile bike ride with the family. I towed my son on the Trail-a-Bike. When he really helped, I could tell it! In fact, a couple times I had to tell him to hold back. When he didn't help, well, I was towing 50 lbs of dead weight! It was a nice ride. When we got to our destination, 1-1/2 hours from home, we heard thunder, so we had to head right back rather than browse around the Iowa Arboretum, as we had hoped.
Yesterday, I got in to see a doctor. He looked at my foot and didn't see anything obvious, which was not surprising to me. So, he ordered an x-ray and referred me to a podiatrist. I'll see that doc on Monday. Until then, I'm going to take it easy.
I had been thinking about what I could do without aggravating the foot too much. I realized most of my lifting is supposed to be done with most of my weight on the heels. Since my foot issue is in my forefoot, I decided to lift today. I started off with 5 minutes on the elliptical. I realized that also doesn't stress my forefoot, at least as long as I don't reduce the incline too much. I might try to do some of that until I know I can run again.
Today was half of Fat Loss III A5. I did half of the sets, except both of the hanging leg raise sets. No increase in weights, since it has been a couple weeks between workouts.
Warm up - 5 minutes elliptical, DLs 5@50#, 5@100#, 5@120#
Deadlift - 2x10@140#
Push-up - 2x10 regular on floor
Bulgarian split squat - 2x10@15# each hand
2-pt dumbbell row - 35# one hand at a time
Deadlift - 20@120# (it's amazing how much easier 120# is when you are coming off of 140# DLs)
Dumbbell bench press - 20@25# each hand
Walking lunge with side bend - 20@20# each hand
Cable seated row - 20@71#
Hanging leg raise - 2x10
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