Monday, March 24, 2008
The reason for my state might result in the poor diet I've been having. Lately I only have one full meal per day, and a few snacks here and there. This has a result in deficiency in calcium, i guess. Well, the thing is, it has made conditions worst for me, especially my active lifestyle where I do heaps of sports.
I've been going on this werido diet because I have been getting fatter, but then my weight is actually maintained at a level, just that I wish it would go lower, because I use to be thinner. But no matter how much I dont eat or how much I work out, it doesnt really work!
But I still went on with the eating less solution. Till date, I havent stopped.
Lately has been the season of sports, and I've been running none stop. I'm now a seasonal runner, beacuse I havent got the time for regular training with my crazy schedual going on.
So for this month itself, I have been treated for severe muscle cramps, for both legs. If you guys don't know what it feels like to have cramps, let me tell you. Its when you flex your muscle and it doesnt go back to its normal position when you relax the muscle, it stays in its place, so when you bend your leg, it actually over stretch the muscle, which might result in a tear. Its really unbearable when you dont have someone there to help you put the muscle back in place. Sometimes, it makes you just collapse on the floor, even on the road side where a guy would even scream in agony and might even shed tears, for it is really painfull!
It started out three weeks ago when I was on my training. And it was time trail, so I had to be up to par for the game. Ran my best and then just kept going, although I didnt really go through a proper warm up. On the way back, walking. I knew my muscle was really stressed out and it might cramp, but I continued to walk to my destination. Suddenly I walked on an uneven path which resulted in the sudden cramp. I fell right down to the ground, the pavement beside the road, shouting for my near by friend. As I tried to straighten my right leg, it just made things worst. But then it took like 2 days for it to heal, with me having pain killers and cool aid all over my leg.
The second time was just the previous Wednesday. It was during the green house training. And as captain, I had to do nearly everything, besides playing the games, coordinating people, I had to bring the things in and out. I was busy, but I did do a proper warm up, but a speedy one. When I saw my left muscle, it looked weird, but I went on with it. I did two time trials for 100m and did it with style. it was ok. Until I was sent for long jump. Did the starting dun and jump nicely. Right when I landed, the impact made my left muscle cramp up. And to my horror, there was no one at the other end of the sand pit, just the teacher. He then asked, "You can jump why not join?". I just shook my head as I was busy with my leg. The teacher saw me and said, "Muscle cramp?". I answered with a fast yes. Instead of coming to my aid, the teacher turned around and looked at the people running the 100m. I was shocked, because I needed someone to move my muscle, it wasnt going back to its original position. I was waving my hands to ask friends to come over to the other side of the sand pit, but no one responded. They thought I wanted them to jump. But luckily some people came. At last! But it was a little too late, my muscle was sore and started to swell.
But it was a rapid heal. I had the energy for the cross country run, 8km, which was held on Friday, just 2 days after the Wednesday's cramp. It was Good Friday, which didnt really go so well. We started running, and I was doing well, until the route was going up hill, my muscles started pulling and it harden, it started to burn from the inside, so i decided to walk instead. Until we went down hill, took some pain killers (cream form) from the St. John boys, off I went jogging on the flat land, walking occasionally. I did extremely bad. For my 5th year and last year in this competition, it was by far the worst. Previously I havent got anything more than 40th position. But this year, I landed on the 107 spot! Crazy. So as my muscles cooled down after going through with the run, it started to ache which resulted in a pull AGAIN! This time was my left leg. But it was minor.
After the run, I had plans with my friends, we had to go do some shopping and have a great lunch. Since I havent, none of us, got our driving licence, we had to walk there, after all that, I had to walk back. Upon arriving, I took off my shoe, and OUCH! My right leg crampped! This time it was minor, the muscle did move back after some deep breaths.
But the following two days, my ass and the thighs(both big and small) were sore!
So now, I'm taking calcium suppliments to compliment the glass of milk I drink everyday, going back on a normal diet and taking good care of myself. Hopefully I have a speedy recovery!
silenced at 3/24/2008 01:57:00 AM
