Tuesday, December 28, 2010

More Delay....

   Well, today I realized that I think I pulled  a ligament or something in my knee yesterday. At one point a was doing crossovers and I tripped and fell...my knee twisted...:/

 SO lower body is going to be on hold for a little while....hopefully not more then a week. But that's ok...it'll give my hamstring more time to heel also, and I'm going to be working on flexibility too.

 Also, I've been trying to decide on two courses of action here...I want to get in shape as quickly and efficiently as possible. So the question is....is it better to work your muscles to the point of slightly tearing them, and give them an extra day to recover(or not). OR would it be better to work them to the point where you can slightly feel it the next day, but not tear them. There are two completely separate schools of thought on this issue, and I'm leaning towards the second one. The obvious physical difference would be that following the work out with the first method you would feel very sore.  The second, your muscles would just feel tight.
Anyone have any thoughts of theories on this? 

 Well...today I'm being pretty easy on myself. ;) I just played about 2 hours of doubles in sand....and tonight I am planning on playing 2-3  hours on court. It'll be a decent overall workout....but I'm not going to do any thing too intense today...Gonna try and give my joints a break for a while...

Until next time. :)

2 comments:

  1. I think tearing your muscles sound like a terrible thing to do to yourself...I definitely go for #2!

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  2. Good for you for taking care of yourself! :)

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