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What a week! Friends and family are visiting from out of town, so I have been on and hosting and busy. It's truly wonderful to have so many close friends and family who are able to come out and visit. However, it is also challenging and exhausting for my schedule.
I have been going to hand therapy with an occupational therapist on Tuesdays and Thursdays after work. It is helpful and important for me to learn the exercises and address my hand pain, though it is frustrating to lose the evenings for a full body workout class. This leaves Mondays and Wednesdays. This particular Monday, our friends arrived to stay with us, so I had to rush home from work. On Wednesday, I got in my one workout of the week.
Wednesday is my aerial day. Due to the holiday schedule this week, a substitute teacher taught the class. She spent most of the time talking and demonstrating, and not a lot of time truly instructing and helping us through the skills. The result was a lot of standing around and not a lot of time working out. Needless to say, I was very frustrated with her and her class. This was supposed to be my one workout that I could fit in this week, so I was annoyed. That said, my hands were in pain with even the limited time I spent on the silks, so maybe it was not all bad that there was some down time.
I also spent too much time in the kitchen this week, an activity that is very hard on my hands and wrists. Washing dishes, carrying pots and pans, cutting melons, etc, all place a lot of pressure on the finger joints. We hosted both Shabbat meals this week. Because of my work schedule, I had to begin cooking Thursday night, resume cooking the minute I returned home from work on Friday, and continue managing the kitchen all of Shabbat to ensure everyone was well fed and the kitchen was in workable condition.
All in all, the week felt like a wash. No true exercise for my body and extra exertion for my hands.
But what can you do. The holiday season is upon us. Here's to a new week with maybe a better workout or two.
I have been going to hand therapy with an occupational therapist on Tuesdays and Thursdays after work. It is helpful and important for me to learn the exercises and address my hand pain, though it is frustrating to lose the evenings for a full body workout class. This leaves Mondays and Wednesdays. This particular Monday, our friends arrived to stay with us, so I had to rush home from work. On Wednesday, I got in my one workout of the week.
Wednesday is my aerial day. Due to the holiday schedule this week, a substitute teacher taught the class. She spent most of the time talking and demonstrating, and not a lot of time truly instructing and helping us through the skills. The result was a lot of standing around and not a lot of time working out. Needless to say, I was very frustrated with her and her class. This was supposed to be my one workout that I could fit in this week, so I was annoyed. That said, my hands were in pain with even the limited time I spent on the silks, so maybe it was not all bad that there was some down time.
I also spent too much time in the kitchen this week, an activity that is very hard on my hands and wrists. Washing dishes, carrying pots and pans, cutting melons, etc, all place a lot of pressure on the finger joints. We hosted both Shabbat meals this week. Because of my work schedule, I had to begin cooking Thursday night, resume cooking the minute I returned home from work on Friday, and continue managing the kitchen all of Shabbat to ensure everyone was well fed and the kitchen was in workable condition.
All in all, the week felt like a wash. No true exercise for my body and extra exertion for my hands.
But what can you do. The holiday season is upon us. Here's to a new week with maybe a better workout or two.
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