Well, my body is telling me to lay off. Big Time.
Ever since coming back from vacation last week I've been suffering bouts of exercise induced asthma (or something!), when doing cardio. The first time it didn't kick in until about half an hour in, but ever since then it's a struggle to keep it under control from the minute my heart rate gets at all elevated. Basically I feel like I can't get a full breath, and that tight chest feeling doesn't go away after I'm done working out, it's staying with me thoughout the day. I don't have any symptoms of being sick, though. No fever, lots of energy, no headache. So I don't think it's viral.
The onset of symptoms after vacation is suspicious to me, however. strange germs? 2nd hand smoke exposure? maybe it's the area forest fires that have put a haze over the valley in the last week or so? Whatever the trigger, it's been pulled. Took Saturday and Sunday off. Saturday that tight chest feeling hung around all day, but felt better on Sunday. Decided to play it safe this morning, even though I felt just fine, and kept the exertion level down. Didn't do the trick. Oh, I got through my workout, keeping my heart rate under 120 so my lungs could keep going, but now, 12 hours later, I'm fighting my cough reflex and the chest tightness is the worse it's been. CLEARLY I've overdone it.
I've been pushing my cardio sessions harder and harder recently. Going longer. Going harder. Doing 4 cardio workouts a week. 4 months ago I was taking two 90-min walks per week and only have one other cardio workout. Even when I was training with my personal trainer I never did more than 3 cardios a week, and they weren't as intense or as long as my recent workouts have been. Since March, I'm doing 3 dedicated hour long cardio's a week, plus doing my upper body workout as circuit training with 2 mins of intense cardio bursts. My hubby says I've just been overdoing it. period. And my body is letting me know it's not happy about it.
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