Ugh, the gym absolutely killed me yesterday. It went from mild aches to full blown I think my knees are ceasing to function.
What sort of bothers me is that when I try to accommodate for my knees when they act up is I get buggered into 'trying harder' and I've explained on multiple occasions that some of the stuff in zumba I can't do because of knee pain.
I want to try hard and do better and y'know overall better myself, but when I try to work around the fact that my knees are not in best condition because I was considerably fatter when I was a teenager and did some damage to my knees via horse back riding and a few other things I feel guilty and the fact that my teacher is encouraging me to pick it up a notch I push through and then deal with the pain later.
Unfortunately it's getting worse these days and no amount of stretching before hand or even working out more is not helping alieviate the pain.
I don't want to quit altogether because I love the class, I would just like people to understand that I just can't do it right now and leave me be about it.
I really do need to drive the point home because I adore my instructor and she's really great. But I don't think she understands completely that the day after class I spend a majority of it in pain.
I go twice a week, tuesday and thursday. I have wednesday to recover and then friday, saturday, sunday, monday.
The main problem I think is the overworking of the legs, she had boob surgery so we had to limit our arm and ab work because she couldn't do it for 2 months. So we focused heavily on legs and thighs with as much cardio as she could handle.
My theory is that the two months solid leg, thigh and cardio twice a week is what caused further damage to my knees. We used to rotate routines that would work cardio one day, arms and abs the next and then legs. We ended up stopping that because of her surgery and we've never gotten back on to it yet. I'm not sure what to do to make myself better so I can get back up to where I was pre-2 month legs.
Anyone got any hints for me?
