It has been a long time since I've posted here on Maximum Fatigue. I experienced yet another physical challenge and it rocked me to the core. After a solid year of Maximum Fatigue work outs, conscious diet improvement and good health rituals that helped me loose nearly 40 pounds and regain the strength of my twenties my body started to fail. I started having sharp pains that ran down my neck and into my limbs and my left arm would sporadically go completely numb. The feeling would come back, but the symptoms started getting worse and more sever and I would also experience tightness in my chest and shortness of breathe and overall sense of doom. I started to loose my strength, but weight training seemed to improve things as the workouts progressed. I was comforted that I started to feel a little better at the end of my workouts because that meant it couldn't be my heart as I seemed to be passing the "stress test".
I tried to work through it, but several times I couldn't get half way through a workout without thinking I was having a stroke. I went to my doctor and all tests came back negative and after a physical exam he said I was fine and the numbness was obviously a severely pinched nerve in my neck and everything else was probably due to stress from being laid off twice in the last six months. He said take it easy for a couple weeks and it should resolve itself. He said change your routine swim, ride your bike, hike, but lay off the weights and you should be fine. It couldn't be that simple. But it was. Right now I feel great. I lowered the weight and increased the reps on all my lifts and still work it to Maximum Fatigue!
I should have practiced what I preach, "No pain, no pain!"
