I wasted 3 days of work and exercise because of extreme pain around my lumbar region.

The Cause

Friday’s workout at CrossFit was gruesome. I threw a lot of heavy rogue slam balls over my shoulder and lower back was well worked out and exhausted.

On Saturday at YMCA… I again did a workout the lower muscles of the Hip abductors by performing multiple repetitions s without keeping a tab on the number of sets I was doing.

This aggressive workout approach backfired and on Sunday early morning (7th Jan 2018, 4 AM) , I had a shooting pain around the lumbar region and after countless rounds of applying an ointment, gentle massage with oil, heated water bag fomentation and occasional painkiller, I was finally able to recover/ sit properly (9th Jan 14.05 PM).

Lesson learned

  • Never ever treat your body like a machine
  • Do not do aggressive workouts without proper rest
  • Workout, Rest, Recover, Regain and Repeat.