After a couple of weeks of exercising I felt up to working outside. I felt good and the weather was great – sunny, high 50’s – nice for mid-March. I started to clean up the front yard. Since we live on a corner lot, our yard gets plenty of trash blown into it. I was determined to clean up the winter’s worth of debris in one fell swoop. Oh my aching shoulders. I need to remember moderation in everything.

Walking on a treadmill is not working out the other parts of my body. It’s time to look at other avenues for workouts. You just don’t know how weak you are until you try to use muscles that you haven’t used for a long time. My shoulders were burning by the time I finished. Instead of spreading out the clean up, even over the two days of the weekend, I had to do it all at one. Well, it’s done and so are my shoulders.

I don’t believe in the “no pain, no gain” type of exercise. Once I hit pain, I used to just stop. I need to listen more closely to my body. I’ve put heat on my shoulders. Now I’ll do ice. I can feel the ache as I type. Okay, lesson learned. Don’t try to do the whole thing at once if your body is overtaxed and screaming at you to stop.

At least I have one more day left of the weekend. Hopefully, the aching will relax and I can find other exercises to build up my shoulders. Time to look up an exercise to work out my shoulders the right way, in a day or two.

I hope to end the weekend on a positive note.