Back to Fit AF

OK my Achilles tendonitis is 90% healed.

Time to get back on that Fit AF goal, only this time, slooower:

• 2 slow runs or walks per week till my heel feels 100%
• tiny body weight workouts - pushups, squats, heel raises
• full body stretches after all that

If the injury taught me anything, is how disembodied I am on a day-to-day basis. I was standing too much, but failed to heed the signals that my legs and feet were telling me. I started off too strong, but failed to appreciate the little clues my body were whispering.

If anything, this Fit AF goal is not just about getting back my fitness but also (re-)learning to listen to my body.

That’s why today, during my first morning jog post-injury, I stopped to walk when I could feel weird tension in my heel area. I stopped after 15min, just as I had planned. I stretched it as much as I could after.

Time and again, as it was with my last brush with health conditions, the punchline is clear:

My body is my harshest teacher.

Heed, or it’ll give me the painful lesson I wished I didn’t have.

A year from now, I’ll wish I had listened well and acted swiftly today.

Might as well start now.