::wince::

[trinityvixen]

I didn't ride my bike to work on Wednesday because I had to hold my Dad's hand as he bought a present for my mother in the Apple Store. I was never going to get back from Grand Central in time on a bike. So I used my stationary bike at home that night, and, as a complement to the biking, I did all of fifteen--you are in shock at prowess, I can tell--push ups. My arms are fine--they're mostly used to supporting a lot of force and weight from the regular biking I do. My abs, on the other hand, are all stupid and achy. It took me most of yesterday to figure out why. So, not only am I not especially strong, I'm more than a little clueless about this exercise stuff. Better not do too much of it, just in case.

In other news, I almost bought stuff on Threadless yesterday for Christmas presents, but I couldn't hit the cap for free shipping without buying a bunch of bullshit. I was all set to abandon it as a hopeless quest when they e-mailed this morning with a change not only to their minimum for free shipping but in the costs for their shirts. The shirts dropped to $10 (from $12), which left me maddeningly below the cap again. Luckily, I chanced upon this shirt which I will get for my mother. (She likes moose. At Christmas, our entire staircase is filled with mooses. Moosen. Meese?) Free shipping and my holiday stuff that needs to be done asap is mostly taken care of. There are still a few outlying presents and one that I have to actually take to a post office, but otherwise, whew.

Comments

[wellgull.livejournal.com]

It's always going to hurt when you do something you haven't usually done before. It doesn't mean you've hurt yourself, it just means you tried something new.

Apparently most delayed-onset muscle soreness is caused more by microdamage/stress to connective tissues holding muscle-fiber bundles together rather than to damage to the muscle tissues per se (I don't mean like, tendons and stuff, but the sheathing on the muscle fibers). With practice, those tissues adapt, and you stop being sore. But using muscles in unfamiliar combinations will stress the connective tissues in new ways, so they'll become sore. This is not a problem, it's totally normal, it goes away if you let the body adapt to the stimulus. And it has nothing to do with the strength of the muscle; I haven't done much biking in a while, so I would probably get sore in my glutes and quads if I went for a long bike ride, even though I certainly wouldn't be hurting myself.