Wednesday Wisdom -Sometimes you just need to Take a Break

For most of us, the hardest thing to do when we have an injury is to TAKE A BREAK!  Especially when we're on track and really sticking to a workout routine.  Mentally, we want to keep going.  We want to push through the pain and hope it goes away.  I am personally guilty of this regularly. 

BUT...

the truth of it is - if you give your body the time it needs to heal, you will be helping yourself in the long run.  For example, if you jack your back (I did this two weeks ago riding a bike that wasn't fitted properly) you can keep exercising through the pain and you'll slowly feel like the pain is decreasing, until one wrong move and you jack it again.  This cycle can go on for weeks, even months.  Whereas if you take a couple weeks off and let it heal properly (which I ended up doing ... not by choice, but by circumstance), you can get back at your workouts full force when you're better.  Now you've only missed 2 weeks instead of the off and on for eight months of trying to fight through.  I really believe it takes more strength to hold back and rest than to push through and hurt yourself.  But what do I know ... I'm just a trainer ;-)

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