Oh my aching … whole body

Thursday, December 9th, 2004

I went to my second Karate lesson on Tuesday. The first one was about 7 years ago when I visited Japan for the first time. I felt clumsier than I’ve felt in a long time, trying to do the same things the 7 year old in front of me was doing with the greatest of ease, but the exercises are what really killed me.

The instructor told me to take it easy and rest when I needed to, but I just can’t bring myself to do that. If I’m there to work on conditioning my body and mind, I’m going to do my best at it. Of course when I absolutely couldn’t do any more pushups I didn’t, instead I strained to try to do more. The flutter kick type exercises that we did left me needing to roll onto my side to get up because my abs wouldn’t help me out. All in all I got a very thorough workout, and worked up a good sweat.
I’ve heard people say that they were sore in muscles that they didn’t even know they had, but while I always considered it a rather clever little turn of phrase, I never thought of it as something to be taken literally. I’ve now completely relinquished all doubt. Yesterday my calf muscles were in agony, but I knew I had calf muscles, and I knew that I had very nearly pulled one of them so that wasn’t a surprise. Today a whole range of muscles that I can’t even tell you the exact location of are in agony. It is hard to be cool and nonchalant when you can’t walk fully upright. Have no fear though, I think I should be all healed up and ready to rip myself apart again by next week.

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  • on December 10th, 2004 04:47 AM UltraMom said:

    Try rising to new depths of extreme laziness to the point where you can actually feel your muscles atrophying a little each day. THEN, sign up for an all-day flag football tournament. Do you have muscles in your teeth or eyelids? If not, I guess they were going thru sympathy pains due to the extreme agony the rest of my body was experiencing.
    -John

  • on December 11th, 2004 11:10 PM UltraMom said:

    Do you remember that show “Perfect Strangers”? Larry and Balki tried to show off at the gym to their soon-to-be girlfriends Jennifer and MaryAnne, and when they invited the girls over to the appt the next day, they couldn’t even move. A classic episode!