Today was a back to normal day. I hopped on the scale expecting to see a big dip since I have been barely eating but surprise I gained 5 pounds. Yep 5 pounds. I guess it makes sense I have not had much in the way of bowel movements since Saturday night and the meds I am on could cause constipation. That might be why I was not feeling hungry at all. Oh well with eating normal today I should be back to a regular schedule of bathroom breaks. On to the workouts! I worked out at the gym and did 20 minutes on the stair stepper machine. I did not push to max effort but a comfortable sweating pace. I moved to the treadmill and did 40 minutes. My plan was to walk 20 min at incline then walk/job alternating minutes for the last 20 minutes but my back side by my leftkidney did not like the bouncing so I did jog 2 minutes but walked the rest at incline. At this point in the day I still don’t know which direction my body is going to go to, feeling better or felling worse. I finished out my workout and showered up and prepped my breakfast, I had some steak over salad with some honey roasted peanuts. Not the usual for me but I did not have time to shop or prep food this weekend so leftovers for breakfast. Morning break was a banana, an orange and some macadamia nuts. Lunch was a salad with chicken breast and a nature’s valley peanut butter bar. My afternoon snack was just a yogurt and before I knew it I was heading for the gym.
I did take a pain pill and muscle relaxer first thing with breakfast since I had a good chance of working at my desk most of the day. I did feel slightly sore from all the laying around the house I did, but not the intense kidney pain I felt that sent me to the ER. I figured I would see pretty quickly if my back was bothering me once I started lifting.
Squats:
95lbs 5 reps
135-5
155-5
185-4
135-5
Dumbbell bench press
40lbs each 8reps
50-8
60-8
70-8
80-5
50-10
Assisted pull-ups using neutral grip
+240-5
+220-5
+200-5
+220-5
That felt like a decent amount of exercising and I felt good afterwards. NO BACK PAIN! That is both good and bad. No muscle pain from exercising, YES! but what does that leave as a problem????? Hopefully when I follow up with a doctor I can get an answer.
