Ok so when I was about 23 I was very overweight and I set out to lose all the weight which I did, only thing was I ran 7 miles every day for about 3 months.... my legs felt tired a lot of the time (obviously) but there didn't seem to be any real lasting damage. Eventually they repaired and everything was good.
About a year later it all went out of the window and I started putting the weight on again, until it got to a point where I had to train again. And so I did, but I completely overtrained and again, my legs started giving me jip, especially going up and down steps etc because they were just so battered from all the cardio and no breaks. I lost the weight though. My legs repaired and everything was fine.
Then about 3 years ago I joined a football team and we were training once a week and playing games once a week, but it started to do my legs in and i had to stop. It took ages for them to feel normal again.
Anyway, I'm now 37 years old and I've put a lot of weight (again) and a few weeks ago I started training again, but just once a day or every other day, sometimes a couple days off, trying not to get too carried away and cause myself an injury, but after about 2 to 3 weeks my legs were just saying no.
So, I decided ok, I need to wait til my legs recover but I swear it's been like 2 weeks, maybe even 3 now and they're still not back to normal. I think all of this abuse over the years has just got to them and now they're just proper fucked. So what do i do?
I want to train and i want to lose weight and I'm willing to put the work in but I just feel like my legs can't hack any amount of work at all. It's very frustrating when mentally I'm ready to do this but physically my body is just saying no.
Should i get a sports massage? Eat lots of protein to help try and speed up the recovery? I bought a fat tube of deep heat so that's helping but it's just relief rather than actually fixing them.
Man, I'm really starting to feel old and its actually depressing. Seriously if you're in your 20s and you're reading this, look after your legs cos this shit is not fun.
Please be gentle in the replies because I have severe mental health issues and i really can't be dealing with people giving me lip in any form at the moment.
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