Since I am now on a “must work out” kick, I decided to start doing the P90X yoga DVD.  M doesn’t really like it and I felt it would be a nice start.  Last night I decided I would just pick up where I’d left off the night before.  Easy right?  Hmrph.  The moves in the second half hour were more balance oriented so I didn’t feel like I was doing push ups the entire time which was nice.  But let me tell you, for someone with no flexibility, yoga is not the easiest thing to do.

I try to do everything or at least the modified version.  This was all fine a good until I finished.  I felt I’d done a pretty good work out but not over done it.  I was wrong!  About half an hour after I finished my lower back started to ache.  This was not too surprising since I haven’t worked out in a while.  I expected to be a little sore.  But as the night went on my back felt more tense.  I made M rub it but it didn’t really seem to help.

Once I got upstairs I grabbed the heating pad and laid on that until I went to sleep.  This morning though my back is tender to the touch.  It’s not painful per se, only achy.  What bothers me is the pain that feels almost bruise like when you touch a spot on my lower back.  I have no idea what exactly I did to pull this muscle but wow!

There will definitely not be any yoga in my future for tonight.  Tonight I plan to lay on the heating pad again and maybe take a hot bath.  Hopefully tomorrow it won’t be as sore.

~k