Richard Gibney's 365 Days of Fitness: Day 362

Day 362 It would appear that my plans of avoiding a lower back issue after my long drive yesterday were unsuccessful. My hips and back felt a bit stiff last night, but I was confident that today I would feel fine. However, when I woke up this morning my back was totally kinked. I was hoping that if I got walking around, things would start to loosen up. Unfortunately I didn't feel any better.

I was really hoping for a hard lifting session today, but it just wasn't in the cards. I got to the gym today, around 3:30. I thought that maybe if I got some blood pumping with some cardio that I might loosed up enough to try some form of strength training. However, when I got to the gym I found out that the facility was closing at 4:00 due to some scheduled electrical maintenance. This left me with very little time to get anything done.

Today's Workout:

Cardio: Stepmill 15 minutes / Level 10

Push-ups x 100

20 minutes of deep hip and lower back related stretching

After the gym, Nicole and I drove out to the mountains to have dinner with my parents and sister at the Post Hotel in Lake Louise. as I mentioned yesterday, the roads have been really bad so we wanted to take our time. This combined with my injury, and gym closing earlier than expected, made for a frustrating day of trying to get my exercise.

I'm really quite annoyed that this lower back issue has showed up at this point. I have only 3 days left and I really wanted to make them count. I didn't want to limp my way to finishing this year. I wanted to smash my way into 2014. I don't think the next few days will be a total waste. I'm pretty sure I can work around things. I just hope I don't have to work around things too much.