Today was a total bust. No excuses. Hands down, I just didn't get it done with my fitness program today.
Last night, at about 3 am I woke up to shooting pain in my arms. When I came to, I realized that both of my arms were curled up and cramped in a fetal position from the chest up. I was completely dumbfounded. I couldn't move my arms! I couldn't uncurl them, couldn't relax them, couldn't reach for the lamp to get a clear look at them, couldn't even move either arm far enough to touch the other in order to massage the cramp out. This may sound totally ridiculous, but for a moment a fleeting panicked thought actually ran through my mind that I almost believed I woke up with MS.
After about a minute, which felt like an hour, I realized what was going on and I knew that my arms were just flushed with lactic acid buildup from overtraining. I've had cramps before, but nothing even remotely close to something like this. I spent the next half hour tensing and releasing pressure in my arms. Gradually the worst part of the cramps went away but my arms remained perpetually bent at about a 45 to 90 degree angle throughout the rest of the day. It was awkward and uncomfortable to say the least. I felt like I couldn't concentrate or fully think about anything else.
I didn't feel physically competent to hit the gym for my lower body workout until around late evening when the cramps lessened a bit. However, by that time, I ended up carelessly creating another unnecessary obstacle for myself. The gym I go to closes at 10 pm. I didn't finally make my way their until about 8:50 pm. Then when I got their I realized that I had left my pad lock at home. So I drove back home to get it and by the time I got their it was 9:05 pm. At that point, I knew that I'd screwed up the day's workout because I wouldn't be able to make it back to the gym until 9:15 or 9:20 pm. That wouldn't have been nearly enough time to race through a workout that should take ordinarily take about an hour.
So what did I do? Probably not the best thing in the world. I stayed in. Then about an hour went by and I figured that since I had screwed up the entire day's fitness objective I might as well get something comforting out of it, so I drove to the grocery store and got a 12 oz. frozen cheese pizza. I know, I know. What a mistake? Yes, I know.
So I'm a little down right now, but I'm definitely not out. I'll get over today's setback. I've got to. Tomorrow, I'm just going to chalk today up to experience and get right back on track with my BFL program. I can't allow myself to get discouraged. It's only the first week. I'm going to keep going at it no matter what.
That's all for today, typos and all. Peace.