Pulled Thigh Muscle (Details).
OK, I have been pretty active most of my life but never an athlete. I walk about 3 miles a day on a daily basis and have been, for the last 30 years or so (I am 47). When my daughter was in karate class (about 3 years ago) I used to run with her and achieved a best 1-mile time of 8 mins and 5 seconds, a 2 mile time of about 17 minutes and a 3 mile time of 29 minutes or so. After she got her black belt, 3 years ago, I stopped running but continued to walk at least 3 miles per day. In the middle, I ran about a mile per day, for about 6 months, stopped running for a year, then started running again, and so on. I tend to do what I do for at least 6 months at a time.
Three months ago, I saw my doc. She basically said (in more guarded language, of course) that if I did not lose weight pretty quick, I would have a heart attack and die. I don't like the idea of dying right now. So, I started an exercise program -- walk 3 miles each day and rin for 2 miles, for a total of 5 miles. Part of my routine was 20 push-ups and 100 crunches. I started with 2 push-ups and 10 crunches the first day and gradually built up to 20 & 200 over an 8 week period. I went from 207 lbs to 189 lbs. in those 8 weeks. Then, in the 5th week, I read somewhere (on the Net) about Interval Training. So I tried it in Week 6. I felt a little pain in my thigh so I stopped for 2 weeks. The, I tried again. And that is when I got the killing pain -- same place, same thigh, same situation, basically. So, for the last 3 weeks, I stopped aerobic exercise completely. Over the last week, I have been using dumb-bells -- 100 squats per day, every other day & 100 chest flyes, 100 chest presses, and 100 crunches per day, every other day. I use 2 dumb-bells of 15 lbs. each to do the squats, the flyes, and the presses. For the crunches, I just lie down on the floor raise my knees as high as possible while keeping my feet flat on the floor, cross my hands across my chest and try to make my head touch my knees. Oh, also, I do 100 bicep curls with the dumb-bells on the upper-body days. I am 5' 7' tall and still at 189 bs. despite having stopped the exercise for a while.
My original goal was to drop from 207 lbs. to 127 lbs. before the end of this year. Considering that I have dropped less than 20 lbs in more than 3 months, I have revised my goal to hit 127 lbs. by the last day of March, 2009.
Which thigh muscles exactly I pulled, I don't know, but the pain was in a line below my butt and above the back of my knee, if that helps at all.
I plan on beginning to walk 3 miles again, today. Normally, I walk 3 miles in about 45 to 48 minutes.
