By far my worst workout ever.

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Domestika

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UGH. What the HELL.

Today's workout was just horrrrible. I stopped like 15 minutes into it and I've never done that before.

I work out at home and got distracted and forgot to do a warm-up before I started. I don't know if that is the sole reason my body decided to boycott this work out...

I normally do 3 sets of 20 squats. First set...good. Second set...fine. Third set, I do one squat and both of my quads cramp up and seize and I almost drop to the floor. Took me like 15 minutes to warm them up and stretch them out a bit to the point that I can sit down without them cramping up half way down.

Fine..stupid, but fine. I do some pushups, some chest presses, then I move on to calf raises. First 20 are just fine, rest 60 seconds, start the second set and my calves are seizing up too! Never had a problem with them before.

Ok, FINE. I move on to straight leg deadlifts with back rows. I do a few but they feel off so I do them in the full length mirror. I straighten my back, bend at the torso, lowering the dumbbells...look in the mirror and my back is completely rounded and I'm obviously just going to injure myself.

So I gave up. I have a hard time believing not warming up for 5 minutes (that's all I do - like, marching in place) or stretching a bit actually killed my muscles. I've never had this problem before, ever!

I've been increasing my the length of my runs gradually and I had a long (for me) run yesterday of 25 minutes. But I routinely run one day and do strength the next day.

I AM SO ANNOYED AT MY BODY at the moment. :violent:
 
I think its safe to say we all have "similar experiences" when being consistent in training.

Some questions come to mind, however:

1. How is your hydration? Salt intake? How much water per day? How is your carbohydrate consumption (carbohydrates assist with water retention).

2. How many days of rest between body parts? What program are you following?

3. What is your calorie consumption, and macro-nutrients?

4. How long on this program, and have you changed anything?



Best regards,

Chillen
 
I remember once I was doing bulgarian split squats, my back leg slipped off the bench and it just slammed into the ground and I broke my nail down the middle.. damn that workout sucked, the rest of the leg routine hurt like hell :p

I've also had workouts like you describe, where things just don't work. Don't sweat it, it happens to everyone.
 
Chillen said:
I think its safe to say we all have "similar experiences" when being consistent in training.

Some questions come to mind, however:

1. How is your hydration? Salt intake? How much water per day? How is your carbohydrate consumption (carbohydrates assist with water retention).

My hydration is usually pretty good. I've slacked off a bit the last few weeks (going from several litres of water a day to maybe one or two). I have a very minimal salt intake. I eat mostly "one ingredient" foods and I don't add salt. Carb consumption...regular, I think? For carbs, I often eat a piece of rye bread during the day, some fruit, whole grains. The only dietary change in recent history was the boatload of chocolate I ate two nights ago. :D

2. How many days of rest between body parts? What program are you following?

I do full body workouts, 2 or 3 times a week. I've been nursing a running injury and my strength training has actually been affected by that, so I only worked out twice this week and basically had to forego anything that focussed much on the legs.

Normally I have 3 days rest between workouts, but because I couldn't do much in the way of legs this week it was more like a week since legs were last worked. But I've had to take days off before and it's never been a problem. :/

3. What is your calorie consumption, and macro-nutrients?

I'm consuming about 1700 calories a day, which is about 400 calories below my daily requirement. I'm not intensely following how much I eat of which macro nutrient, I just make sure to eat some protein, carbs and good fats in each meal. Like my dinner tonight, a reasonable portion of fish (baked), steamed veggies and a bit of brown rice. Pretty standard for me.

4. How long on this program, and have you changed anything?

I've been "working out" for maybe..three months now? The first month or so there was a fair bit of "tweaking" but I've been doing roughly the same routine for about a month now with no problems. I've been very happy with it (although...I've yet to see any change in my body or the tape measure so far). I've made some big improvements in the amount of weight I can lift and the reps I can do of bodyweight exercises. I haven't made any changes lately and I have most *definitely* never had a muscle cramp up while exercising. This was definitely a first for me. I can easily do 60 squats with just normal muscle fatigue. This was like, a few squat and..muscle DEATH. Bizarre.

Best regards,

Chillen
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I wonder if there's not some underlying issue. Strange that the quads cramped, then the calves...then I had a major muscle cramp in my oblique when I leaned over to do something about an hour later. Maybe my last run was REALLY hard on my body? But, honestly, it felt quite good, I did a warm-up and cool-down as normal, stretched... Felt fine. :/
 
Three days later and my legs just basically feel like I tried to run a marathon; majorly tight and sore. Funny, the run felt fine. Legs felt good on run day and the next day. Did warm up and stretches before the run. I guess it's just one of those things.

I'll try running again today or tomorrow depending on how the day goes. But now I'm totally paranoid about doing squats! Apparently I can do dozens of them just fine, and then all of a sudden *death*.

I should also note that major frustration due to running knee injuries and horrible leg cramps as well as a complete lack of any sort of visible bodily improvement led to me eating really badly. If I normally eat "clean", I ate very, very dirty the last three days. But I think I'm back on track and looking forward to getting back into my routine.
 
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