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Oh man I am SO stupid. I hurt myself, but good.
Normally, every day I do one hundred crunches. It's a great way to warm up in a hurry. I do them on my inflated exercise ball (so nice & comfy!) and I do 50 in a slow measured way, then 25 as quick "pulse" crunches, a pause to breathe, then 25 more quick ones. Fun!
But then yesterday I was thinking "I wonder how MANY pulse crunches I can do?" Dangerous thought! So I just started doing sets of 25...and I just kept doing them. I did eight sets and I felt fine but a little burny around the middle & I said "ok...200 is twice as many as I normally do so I better stop". About an hour later the aching started. By midnight my abs were spasming in an alarming way. All night long I was achey and miserable...every time I rolled over it felt like I'd been kicked in the ribs.
It's better today but still very hurty...you use abs for EVERYthing, you know? Sneezing, coughing, standing... Ouch. I went grocery shopping & it was an experience. Note to self; NEVER double your workout all in one day. Because I was such a wise guy yesterday I'm not doing ANY ab work today at all. So it goes...
Everyone in this house has a cold but me. It is snowing, therefor the shoveling is entirely up to me. I wonder how much it's gonna hurt?
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Normally, every day I do one hundred crunches. It's a great way to warm up in a hurry. I do them on my inflated exercise ball (so nice & comfy!) and I do 50 in a slow measured way, then 25 as quick "pulse" crunches, a pause to breathe, then 25 more quick ones. Fun!
But then yesterday I was thinking "I wonder how MANY pulse crunches I can do?" Dangerous thought! So I just started doing sets of 25...and I just kept doing them. I did eight sets and I felt fine but a little burny around the middle & I said "ok...200 is twice as many as I normally do so I better stop". About an hour later the aching started. By midnight my abs were spasming in an alarming way. All night long I was achey and miserable...every time I rolled over it felt like I'd been kicked in the ribs.
It's better today but still very hurty...you use abs for EVERYthing, you know? Sneezing, coughing, standing... Ouch. I went grocery shopping & it was an experience. Note to self; NEVER double your workout all in one day. Because I was such a wise guy yesterday I'm not doing ANY ab work today at all. So it goes...
Everyone in this house has a cold but me. It is snowing, therefor the shoveling is entirely up to me. I wonder how much it's gonna hurt?
EDIT! Hey
golden_meliades , I got your card...thank you! It's so cute & I just love the envelope. 
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Sometimes doing a nice warmup and then a very light workout actually helps the soreness go away.
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Shoveling yesterday helped. I'm still sore though! Wow.
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I do know you use abs for everything...it's true! I had two major abdominal surgeries so for sure I've experienced that. Having to use your hands to get out of bed, or even just to roll over...having to grab the counter to stand up out of a squat...and GOD FORBID one should have to COUGH!
I do a hundred and fifty abs thingies together...50 crunches, 40 leg-up crunches (though I'm thinking of doing flat leg raises instead, they seem MUCH more effective, though I 'invented' it myself so I'm kinda wondering...) and 60 side crunches. Oh and back bends, of course, to stretch the abs out...you really have to contract those abs to keep it from hurting the back, though! I can now bend far enough back that my hip bones leave the floor without hurting my spine. (I have a subluxation right in the centre of the lower back so I have to be extra careful about exercises that crimp in that area, as I could cause my nerves to get pinched. OW!)
Glad you got the mini letter. I just thought you'd like the envelop if I made it out of that image. :) That homemade (not by me) paper sure is hard to write on, though.
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I use the exercise ball for back bends too...you know what I really want? They make these metal frame-thingies that attach to any doorway (so they say) so you can do chin-ups and stuff. This one version has arm bands to hook your arms into, so you can do leg lifts like the ones you do in a Roman Chair. That would be so awesome...
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therefor the shoveling is entirely up to me
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I... guess you learned your lesson, and so I can come in and say, "Don't go OVER 9000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" ;) Hehe, just kidding!!
Hope it's feeling better now! :)
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Pam is right, chicken soup. But put some fresh cayanne peppers on it. As much as you can stand. Another good cure for what ails you is an Indian soup called Tomato Rasum which I make a lot. Here is a recipe similar to the one I use: http://andhraspicy.blogspot.com/2007/09/tomato-rasam.html
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That soup looks good!