Major Muscle Aches

It had been years since I became a weekend exercise warrior. After I picked up cycling, it is usually a treadmill/ elliptical on Friday evening, biking on Saturday morning following by another cycling or treadmill/ elliptical session on Sunday morning. While the workout hasn't made me skinnier (darn the cravings for food that never let up), I do feel physically stronger. My fats are just doing such a great job protecting the muscles. Zzzz.

Last Friday, I was invited to one of the company events. It was supposed to be an afternoon of combat archery and soccer pool at one of the fustal courts in Yishun. As we were ahead of time and somebody happened to have a frisbee in the car, a couple of us started throwing frisbee in the name of warm-up. I didn't know that frisbee was so much fun. Hohoho.

My team started off with the combat archery and that again was loads of fun. It is basically like a game of laser tag but with archery. In my 1st 2 shots, I didn't pull the bow in the right way and had the rubber snapped on my arm when I released the arrow. That was a lot of pain and it took me 2x to immediately learn to shoot the right way. Some time later, I found blue blacks on my arm for those innocent 2 shots.

The 2nd part of the game was soccer pool. The "pool table" was an inflatable and the balls were soccer balls. I was bored bcos I can't kick a soccer ball much, even less to try to play pool with it.

Ended up, I was happily playing frisbee for the next over hour. The frisbee session was like an ultimate workout; I ran and jumped for the frisbee thinking that it could replace the gym session. It had been a long while since I did a different sports from the usual gym and cycling.

I did get the desired workout. By the end of the session, my legs were jellyish; I was sure that I burnt much more than my usual gym regime. I had an early night too bcos I was so physically tired; I couldn't make it to the gym even if I wanted to. Lol. When I went to bed, my body was so sore, particularly my lower body. It must be all the running and jumping. I didnt sleep well, I woke up with every other movement from soreness.

Nevertheless, I managed to climb out of bed on Saturday morning for the usual cycling, just that it took tremendous efforts to literally crawl out of bed; my butt and leg muscles were screaming with every movement. Fortunately like all sore muscles, the ache lesser after warm up and I kept up with the cycling gang.

The blue blacks were starting to recover too.

The frisbee session definitely did me good; working out the muscles that had been forgotten. I got slight aches on my back and shoulders too. But the butt and legs muscle aches were seriously bad. I was wondering if it was bcos I really had a good workout or it is part of aging. For the entire weekend, I moved like Liang Popo, particularly after a period of rest. It was quite funny. Hohoho. The soreness did start to lighten since last evening.

I never knew playing frisbee can be such a great workout. It was definitely a fun way for an alternative exercise from the usual regime. Did I tell you how jealous the kids were when they heard how much fun I had from playing frisbee? Hoho.

Mummy Lim