I've decided to have a week off the treadmill. Although I really don't want to, my pelvic floor is not feeling right and I want to see if time off from running helps. Stupidly, I stopped doing my pelvic floor exercises because it was feeling pretty good. But now it has gone back to feeling wrong. Not really sure how to describe the feeling other than 'loose'. It doesn't hurt, it is just uncomfortable and annoying. I feel like I constantly need to be pulling everything up. So I'm back on the exercises religiously and will take a break from the running. If it doesn't improve in a week I'm going to book myself in to see a physio.
That all means I need to do other things at the gym to keep me active. I have been quite enjoying doing some light weights and will definitely keep doing those. I will also continue the core work that I've been doing. Yesterday, I did some squats and had a go on the stair master for the first time. For some reason I've never been into squats even though I know they are great for legs and butt. I have also read somewhere that strengthening you glutes also helps the pelvic floor. And the stair master - well, what can I say? It's really hard work! My legs were ok but I had to work really hard to keep my heart rate from going through the roof! I managed to do 20 floors. I think I'll try to increase that by 5 floors every time I go! Will see what happens.
I've also reacquainted myself with the stationary bike :( Possibly the most time consuming way to burn calories!!! I did 15 mins this morning and only burnt about 50 calories! But I just keep reminding myself that I'm not really there to burn calories (lose weight), rather to tone up. And the way my legs were burning during that 15 minutes, I figure it must be doing something!
Fingers crossed that things feel better next week!
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