I’ve completed day 2 week three which I’m so chuffed with, but I seem to have strained my glute muscle, well I think that’s what it is I didn’t feel it during my run it was about 2 hours later.
Has anyone got any advice I really don’t want not keep going 😬
Sorry to hear you’ve got a strain 😢 my physio told me that if the day after any run I feel pain over a 6 (on a scale of 1-10, 10 being unbearable) then don’t run, rest it.
If it’s niggling but doesn’t get worse you should be okay as long as the pain is a 5 or under.
Good luck.
Thankyou I have a day rest tomorrow so fingers crossed
Hi Sorry to hear you may have to take some recovery time out and I can well understand it if you are desperate to get back to the running- having had depression and anxiety all my life the only thing I have ever found to be helpful at a deep level has been exercise. I resisted it for so long because being depressed I didn't want to do anything I just wanted to stay in bed. Thankfully and why I will never know ,one day I actually did some exercise and could not believe how much better I felt immediately after. This then became a regular thing and gradually my depression lost its grip on me and the anxiety changed into other positive emotions.I really hope you are able to get back running once your injury has been treated and you are fit to do so of course. BTW I'm 63 and age is irrelevant although you do have to accept you can't do what you could in your twenties but I know many people our age getting a real benefit from regular exercise and the rewards are just incredible.
All the best for the future.
🍏 Sorry to hear that! Sounds like you need to add some gentle stretching to help prevent injury. Here is a link to our program that supports our running.
healthunlocked.com/strength...
Please get medical advice before continuing the program if your pain continues. Let us know how you get on.
Thankyou I will take a look
Well done on your running, it’s a great programme so I do hope you keep on ..
Whilst really wise to be aware of pains, strains and niggles, if you had not been exercising much or regularly previously, or indeed not exercising those particular muscles, then, if it is muscle ache, it’s not surprising nor I would think unusual.
To avoid muscle strain make sure you are doing a good leg warm up before running, complete the cool down walk and do appropriate stretches afterwards. Drink water. Don’t feel that you must complete the programme in nine weeks, you can repeat runs, take more rest days, do shorter runs for longer to get yourself stronger-anything to adapt it for you. It’s easy to feel derailed if you haven’t kept up the momentum but if you eg take a few days to recover and do the runs of the previous week again and then continue on, that’s great.
When you have muscle strain, walk the following day which allegedly helps to heal. A warm bath also helps. If it is post exercise muscle pain, which sounds likely, then it should be something like 48hours to at least start to ease. However, if it doesn’t ease then seek more qualified advice.
Many years ago I started a total body work out class with a friend, we were quite young and walked dogs together so thought we would be fine. The following day both of us felt as if we had been hit by a bus, total body pain!.. . just trying to bend to sit on the loo was agony! It was such a brilliant and fun class, I ended up going twice a week for over a decade. I didn’t dare stop for more than a couple of weeks holiday as I knew starting again would mean pain!
thankyou for this advice, I’ve just walked the dog and really feeling a lot of pain now
I’m so upset about what has happened but looking at the advice hopefully in a few days after some rest I will begin recover 🤞🤞🤞🤞
Feeling 😐
Old bones?!
Feeling unmotivated 
Sickly feeling 
Feeling so deflated
