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Exercise update - shoulder pain

The past week I have been incredibly tired. Worrisome tired. I know nothing is actually wrong, but also don't know what's caused it. It's been better the last few days but it was really bad last Monday through Thursday. I woke up as tired as when I went to bed and slept every chance I had. My energy was never more than 5%, which was particularly terrible when I was at work.

During this time my shoulder was in more pain than it ever has been (it still is), and my other shoulder also became injured. I'm not sure if this had anything to do with how tired I was, but I can't imagine so. It all started the day after the Urban Combatives active shooter seminar I took up in Madison with Lee Morrison. I was fine the day of, but Suzy shoved me into the wall pretty hard on my bad shoulder when I wasn't ready. That I'll attribute to the new pain in the back of my shoulder, although I would have thought it'd be gone by now.

With all that said, I haven't done any exercise in a full week. I've literally just been sleeping and eating. My appetite is also incredibly high for some reason. Yesterday I was feeling okay enough to go on a short run with Jamie, which felt great, even in the 30 degree weather; and today I went to strength and conditioning class at Miss Pole and then Pole 5 afterward, both of which were with Kate.

I wasn't expecting to be able to do anything in either class, especially Pole 5 (I was just going to go to hang out with people), but I surprising could keep up! There were a few things in the strength I had to discontinue doing, and I couldn't do any sort of pull up climbs in Pole 5 due to the pain in my shoulder while doing it; but everything else was fine. It was also the first time I was in a class where I could literally do everything and not have to sit aside during a move a couldn't do. That felt pretty good, I must say. And Kate gave me some really great tips and alternative moves to work on, which was refreshing because I've only had Tiffany lately. Switching it up is beneficial!

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