I had to take another break from the 30 Day Challenge yesterday. On Thursday, I was doing the Day 15 workout, which was a tabata-style workout (that's where you alternate between two moves, doing one for 20 seconds, breaking for 10, then doing the other for 20 seconds and breaking again for 10, then repeat). I'm not sure what exactly happened (I suspect that I wasn't doing something properly because I was too worried about the speed involved in going from one move to the next), but suddenly something happened to my knee during a lunge. I made it through a heavily modified workout, trying to protect my knee. But the damage was already done.
So as soon as the workout was over, I iced my knee. I iced it a few more times that day, and took something to keep the swelling down when I went to work that evening (I did okay for the most part, but by the end of my shift I could feel it again). So I went home and iced my knee again.
Yesterday I swore off activity as much as I could. I wanted to walk to work in the afternoon, but ended up driving just to try to let my knee recover a bit more. For the most part, things were okay, but I could still feel that my knee was a bit off.
When I woke up today, it felt better. So I decided to give the Day 16 workout a try, knowing that it was an active recovery day focussed on stretching. I got through the stretched okay, but decided to ice my knee again right after the workout because it was feeling a bit off. Hopefully it'll be okay to do the Day 17 workout tomorrow.
The takeaway of this story is that no matter how fast the workout is, make sure you're doing the moves correctly, even if you have to sacrifice speed - it's no fun damaging something in the name of trying to be healthier! :/
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