Running to Fitness

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 [...]

Bad luck for me - I put my back out again over christmas (walking back from the pub xmas eve and falling on the ice, bit drunk!). Im basically at the stage now where the back pain has eased but I’m getting sciatica leg pain when standing up and walking, see this post for last [...]

Turns out it was a cold coming - feel rotten today so no gym for me and probably no long run this weekend - hopefully be back to normal by monday.

So the go in the gym last week helped out - after I had been on the exercise bike my back was bad again for a couple of days afterwards but then it got better and I have been able to walk better - something I was really struggling with. I started off with walks [...]

It feels like I haven’t been able to work out for ages now - I have been suffering with Sciatica which stems from my back problems, I think I had a herniated disk in my back which I caused by running 16km and then going to the golf driving range afterwards - I felt it [...]