Yesterday I started to weave. The physiotherapist wants me to cut waaaaaay back – it has been 7 weeks, after all – and given I was doing two 45 minute sessions (most) days, I was instructed to dial way back in order to build my muscles back up, again.
Mostly, I am so woefully ‘weak’, that it is going to take time to build back up again.
Previously, when I had an injury, I could plan ahead and gently begin again when I could. This injury was a sharp, sudden, and potentially much more serious. I had weeks to plan what I could/would do and have strategies in place, unlike now.
However, if I just keep in mind my slow start up, I should be fairly quickly get back to what I had been doing. The weaving did not do this, those muscles are not particularly injured, and I just need to remember that slow and steady is what is need right now.
Demonstrated for the physiotherapist very quickly showed that my speed wasn’t too ‘off’ and mostly I was needing to corral my skills again.
So what was I able to accomplish in the 2 15 minutes over two days? I accomplished a tiny bit more on day 2 than day 1. Now to keep to the plan, and keep going…