I started lifting weights last summer and did an on and off throughout the Fall following Pauline Nordin’s Fighter Diet for quite some time.  After the turn of the new year, I did weight lifting freelance on my own plan and was faithfully committed to my made-up routine of heavy weights and a planned routine 6 days a week.  Then I started having issues with chest pain and as it turns out, as my husband predicted and the doctor confirmed, I have a muscular skeletal problem that is exacerbated with heavy weight lifting. Once I stopped, the pain went away.  Crap!  So I haven’t done weights in a while but something that happened yesterday made me decide to go back to weight lifting in moderation.

Laying in bed yesterday early morning, my husband had a total back spasm.  His entire back seized up causing him great discomfort.  He doesn’t lift weights and he runs here and there but he doesn’t have a regular fitness routine like I do.  Sometimes he will do a Body Pump video but that only lasts a week or so and then he allows himself to get busy with other things.  I know as we age, our bodies get more and more feeble and break down and get weak.  I believe if he did some weight lifting it would strengthen him up and things like a back seizure would not happen.   I for one am NOT going to lay down and watch life kick my butt and whittle me down to nothing and be a weakling.  I feel that I need to get back to lifting to stay as strong as possible.  I did arms yesterday and then rode the bike for 30 minutes and felt really good.  Time to start re-working my daily fitness.