Health & Fitness
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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Knowing when to rest or work through pain
Since I'm new to working out I'm having trouble knowing when to push (or not) through pain. Previously I would have just not worked out if I had any inkling of pain -- any excuse to avoid exercise I would have jumped on. But now I want to work out and feel blah when I haven't and so I don't really know how to decide.
My current conundrum is that my right ankle is hurting. And, in fact, is kind of swollen. I have no clue what I did to it -- felt a twinge yesterday when I was walking in flip-flops and it just never went away. I walked the dogs last night (30-min walk) and it hurt, but I was fine at the end. So today I'm faced with my planned exercise -- C25K Week 5/Day 1 and strength (abs/legs) -- and I don't know what I should do.
Re: Knowing when to rest or work through pain
With swelling + pain, don't push it. Rest it, ice it, elevate it.
You don't have to totally skip working out, though. You can still do abs, swim, upper body exercises, ride a bike if that's pain-free, etc.
Yep--RICE...rest, ice, compression, elevation. Don't run or workout on it until it feels better. If it doesn't get better in a few days or gets worse at any time, go see your doctor.
You should never push through PAIN. Pain is your body's way of telling you that something is wrong.
Southeastern Cycling
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