So I just got back from my physical therapist appointment.\u00a0 After all sorts of poking and prodding (and having my hips moved this way and that), it’s obvious I need to work on some major strength training.\u00a0 My problem areas?\u00a0 I seem to be weakest in the muscles worked by the exercises I avoid (specifically, the hip rotation).\u00a0 Although I’m a blonde, even I can see the correlation.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
I first started going to my PT after experiencing patellofemoral pain syndrome (pain under the kneecap).\u00a0 It’s common among woman and is usually attributed to under-developed quad and hamstring muscles (when those muscles are under-developed they tend to cause the patella to track incorrectly, resulting in pain).\u00a0 She gave me several exercises to strengthen the surrounding muscles; although I would do a few,\u00a0 I certainly wasn’t consistent.\u00a0 I pretty much stopped doing the exercises once the pain stopped.<\/p>\n
Now the pain has returned, but in a different area.\u00a0 Although it’s frustrating to have to give up running for a while (at least two weeks, she’s recommending), it comes at a good time.\u00a0 I’ve said I was going to see how my body reacted to increased training, and considering the reaction has been “OW OW OW OW OW” it tells me a lot about what I need\u00a0 to do.\u00a0 On one hand I’m concerned about not being able to do any running given I’m training for Disney, but I’m also confident I can finish that race even if I have to take a few weeks off.\u00a0 I’ll just need to concentrate on water running and\/or biking — two exercises that won’t aggravate the injury.<\/p>\n
I’d like to end by thanking everyone for your advice and support.\u00a0 You keep me motivated to be the best I can be!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So I just got back from my physical therapist appointment.\u00a0 After all sorts of poking and prodding (and having my hips moved this way and that), it’s obvious I need to work on some major strength training.\u00a0 My problem areas?\u00a0 I seem to be weakest in the muscles worked by the exercises I avoid (specifically, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}