After easing nicely back into training I managed to injure my hip flexor last week. After doing a lot of backstop drills on the Saturday and spinning on Monday night it got increasingly worse throughout Tuesday. I went and had a sports massage on it on Thursday with Dan which seemed to do the trick. He gave me some stretches to help loosen it off and now it’s no longer painful I can start to stretch it out. It did mean a week out of training and although I found it highly annoying it was the best time for it to happen as we are currently on our summer break and I’m just glad it didn’t happen during the competition period.
This week there has only been 3 of us training and we hit it pretty hard ready for the start of season. We have had some really good training out on the water doing a little bit of competitive paddling with a few burst for good measure. We also hit the weights hard this week and trust me I could tell I’ve not done weights for a while. When we did them on Tuesday they seemed to take forever just to get round the circuit and I was defiantly struggling. By the time we did them on Thursday I think my body had realised it was back in training mode and I found it much more pleasant. I think it’s time we start upping the weight now ready for when the other return from there break.
