I feel like its been months since I last picked up weights or done any
weight training. The last time I picked up weights was at the barre
which was several months ago. Few weeks ago I told myself I needed to
start doing more weight training if I wanted to see any results. Plus weight training is great for preventing osteoporosis. Last year I came upon the Fitness Blender YouTube channel. I subscribed to their channel since they had tons of great videos. Since I wasn't doing weights on a regular basis I need to be able to see how to do the moves. My brother has taught me a few moves before, but not doing it on a regular basis its easy to forget the moves and the proper form. I loved doing this weights video from Fitness Blender. At the end of the video they say feel free do a HIIT or some other video. Since I was feeling great I figured I could maybe try a HIIT video. I didn't really want to over do it so I choose at 10 minute HIIT video. Oh boy was I beat after the 10 minute video. HIIT workouts really make you work. After a bit a stretching I felt good and accomplished. The next day was when I started feeling some back and neck pain. I've never really felt this kind of pain before so I took some Advil. I figured all I need to do was not workout for a bit. Those jumps in the HIIT video was probably what caused the whiplash of my next plus the doing the whole weight routine. Couple days later a friend wanted to take a spin class together so I said why not because I was feeling a bit better. After the spin I was still feeling some back and neck pain, but it didn't get worse. I thought as long as I wasn't doing weights I'd be fine. Few days later I decided to run at the gym. Everything was going great till I felt a little something on my neck. I knew that was my cue to stop. The next few days my neck felt really bad. I didn't have as much back pain anymore, but there would be sharp pains around my neck area. Sometimes I would even feel this pinch in my neck just when walking or sitting. That was when I told myself not to do anymore exercise till I recovered fully. The pain the next few days and not being able to turn my neck properly I debated about going to the doctor to get a checkup because I couldn't take the pain anymore and pain medication wasn't cutting it. That night I figured before calling the doctor I'd give some yoga videos on YouTube. I found some videos on helping with back and neck pain. Those videos were a big help. The pain was much better and I was able to move my neck more. Now I'm feeling much better so trying to do more stretches and yoga videos. I'm going to try to incorporate more yoga into my workout routines. Hopefully I can easy back into working out and doing the weight exercises. Now if I can find something to help with my nasal allergies. Back to YouTube I guess.
