No pain and still gain!

I am a person of habits. I love habits. I breathe habits. Habits are what make my world go round. Any change in my daily routine messes up my mind up to the point that I just freeze and I am not able to do anything anymore, so you can imagine how hard the pandemic hit me. 

In order for me to continue my day to day and be 100% functional, I had to find a way to deal with the changes at hand, find new habits to incorporate into my daily routine, and find a new constant. So, my search began... At first, I thought that running more would help me, so I started running -raising the pace with every try because it’s in my nature to challenge myself, more and more, cause more is more until, after two weeks, my joints were killing me, my knees were killing me, my back pain was also killing me. The doctor told me I need to stop running. 

Full stop and rewind, but what should I do instead?

Of course I freaked out. I told myself: ”Ok. I need to make a compromise. So I will run less and do some high intensity training.” It worked for some time, until the pain caused by burpees, jumping jacks and other kinds of jumping, came back.

Full stop and rewind, again. 

Once again the doctor told me that I should stop running and do any kind of sports that involved jumping around.

Full stop and rewind, again. 

In my desperate need for a solution I turned to the all knowing Google. And googled, and googled until I found one of the best things that happened to me: low intensity training. I couldn’t believe that my body was still getting its high without all the effort coming from high intensity training. I was still sweating and burning all those calories, but without that bad pain coming out of jumping. This was my jam, a new habit, hobby and stress relieving activity all in one.

I didn’t give up running completely and I hope I will never have to do it, but this combination proves to be the one that I was searching for all these years since I started doing sports on a regular basis. I absolutely have to admit that some of the best things in life come from aging. For me, one of those things is low intensity training.