Running to Fitness

Yesterday I did 40 lengths at the pool and a walk afterwards for 40 mins or so. Today I just did the walk, I can definately an improvement - I managed to walk much farther today without having to sit down or bend over. Strangely I found out that if I walk with my legs [...]

Today I did more swimming - 34 lengths of the pool - over half a mile! Im thinking about doing some Aqua jogging to get my fitness up for when I can start running again but I would feel a bit of a freak in my local pool. Im going to try going at some [...]

Today I managed to walk around 3.5km in 45mins. Up till now my walks have been 10 mins or so and I’ve had to stop every few minutes and sit down till the pain goes.
Today I managed to keep walking and when the pain became too much I just bent over double and quickly massaged [...]

Did another swim today - 30 lengths, I found out that the distance for a Triathlon in swimming is 1.5km which is 60 lengths so I managed half that today!
Its quite a nice way to start the day, Im starving now so breakfast time!

Thought I’d try swimming today to see if that helps my back, I’ve not swum properly since I was a kid - apart from the odd bit on holidays. Its a lot harder than I remembered!
Our local pool is 25 meters long and I did 24 lengths so 625 meters in total. That took me [...]

I still have Sciatica, its around 6 weeks now so Im hopefull it will be gone soon as the last 2 times Ive had it, it lasted 6 weeks.
I gave up going to Physio as after the last 2 times I went, I was in a lot more pain the following few days and couldnt [...]

Today at the gym I forced myself to do 30 minutes on the crosstrainer in 10minute sets, with 10 minutes cycling so I did an hour in total. While on the cross trainer, I was in bad pain from sciatica after 5minutes but I just forced myself to go on till the 10. On the [...]

I have been to the gym twice this week, just going on the exercise bike and doing some weights. Im still getting the sciatica when I stand or walk for too long so cant progress to anything else yet which is really annoying. I can now cycle on the exercise bike for an hour where [...]

Went back in the gym for the first time since my injury to do some time on the exercise bike to try and get rid of the Sciatica (it worked last time).
I managed around 40minutes - 10 minutes at a time and then a 1min break when the pain go too much, this was different [...]

My Sciatica was getting worse, it was hurting when I stood up or sat down - the only position it didnt hurt was lying down which is no good so today I thought I’d do some exercise to see if that helped.
I have a cross trainer at home so I used that - I managed [...]