Fitness injury halfway house

It is like a rehab center in our house...both of us are injured.  Sunday I fancied myself moving up to the next level by doing actual plyo during Turbo Fire in the form of jumps.  I was fine..I thought.  Then the next day my left foot started cramping and getting pain shooting through it randomly.  Tuesday was an at home circuit where the Mr pulled his lower back doing ab work.  By the time Wednesday night's Turbo Fire rolled around and the Mr determined he could do it, I decided my body was just going to have to get used to doing plyo and shut it.  Well my body told me.  I could barely walk yesterday and we did Walk Away the Pounds to give my arches a break; both of which were cursing me in various languages.  I would be doing fine then my foot would give out or cramp up and I couldn't bear weight.  It made me feel like I was weak.  When we arise from the table or couches, we hobble, groan and creak like we're 80.  It's quite amusing/sad/irritating.  Last night before bed when I was getting rather discouraged about it, the Mr said he recommends that I don't do plyo anymore until I'm forced into it like he is.  He has great lung capacity so you can't bust out 1000 calorie workouts anymore.  He told me to wait until I had to do that stuff to get my heart rate up and not be in a rush to get there.  I didn't agree at first because I felt like I was keeping myself stagnant but he's right.  I need to have some aces in my pocket when I need to bust out some new moves.  So I guess I'll back off of plyo a bit.  Wah wahhhhh.

I've burned my required 4200 calories this week and given that I've gained the past 2 weeks when I went way over that limit, I'm not going to exercise today so I can give my arches time to recover and hopefully strengthen.  My water has been hit or miss and Aunt Flo is swinging from my innards so I expect nothing on the scale this week and honestly, as long as it's not another damn gain, I'm okay with it.  (Though with my current amount of bloat, I'm not hopeful.)

Oh hey!  Remember when I said I got away scot free without a bruise on when I b!tchsnapped myself with my resistance bands?  Well, I didn't....

Excuse my horrendous chunkage.  So yeah...it's purty.

What I wouldn't give to be doing this weekend what we were doing one year ago today.  Sigh.

Any fitness owies for you right now?  Any plans for the weekend?

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