1st Post-Virus Workout Results: "My Bum Hurts!"

Photo: Not Nenette's Bum

I stopped doing any kind of workout ever since my cleanse was cut short by the flu. I am seriously not Type-A when it comes to my workouts, so I just won't push myself into exercising if I'm sick. (No one should! So those of you out there who think you can wheeze and hack your way through a workout, think again... you're not doing yourself, or your fellow gym members, any favours.) And according to my doctor, I was sick during my cleanse too, so I wasn't doing myself any favours with such a strict regimen.

So, now that I'm better - oh, please, let me be really better this time! - I finally did my first post-flu workout yesterday. Five squats. I decided to take it slow. I do full squats - "ass to the grass" as they say - to strengthen my knees. Clutching onto the diningroom table for support, I listened to my knees pop and creak as I completed each rep. Wow, they really need strengthening!

But really, that's not the big problem. My knees don't hurt... My bum does! I don't have much going on back there. I have one of those tiny, flat, box-shaped Asian bums that only get perky if I'm consistent with my squats. So, now I'm working my way back to back, and it hurts! Every step makes me painfully aware that I have butt muscles. I had no idea we used them for so many movements. Huh.

So, now we're back to the "bump & grind", as I like to say. ;)
It'll get better, right?