How to get back into training

 I was sick for more than a week now and could not do any form of exercise, but today was my first day back at training and I can´t even put into words how much I´ve missed it. 

To me moving my body is so important and is crucial in how I feel. Without the opportunity to go crazy and really giving my all I feel so horrible from inside. I´m full of anger and self hate and it feels like a dark cloud is eating me from within. It goes that far that it even hurts to sit still. According to that issue I have pretty high testosterone levels for a woman and that needs to be worked off!

First of all you do not have to be scared to go back at training at all - muscle memory is a thing!

What does that mean? It means your body can rebuild possobly lost muscle quicker that it took to build it for the very first time, so you are back at where you have stopped so much qicker.

I started with half of the amount of exercises and intensity as I would normally do. In some exercises, especially quad extensions, I had to reduce the weight a lot. You have to know that I was in such intense muscle pain when I was sick and I had really high temerature for a couple days even. Protein (also the protein our muscles are made off) get destroyed in temperatures starting from 40°C and this way some muscles got a little destroyed in my body. It is not in all body parts but especially in my legs I had a lot of fever pain and what I´m doing now to repair and rebuild my muscles is to gently workout, reduce the weight if needed, go slowly and focus on my mind muscle connection, eating healthy and high quality protein sources and last but not least:

being pateint.

I hope I could spread some useful tips and you enjoy reading about me fighting my way back ;)

Sam xx