Knee Injury Is Putting My Body Fat Challenge At Risk

Woke up this morning with a seriously sore right leg, I think I must of pulled or strained a muscle in the back of my knee and hamstring. I really need to start burning calories again though, because over the past three days my calorie burning as seriously slowed down. My plan today was to do a weight training session and a one hour cardio session on my exercise bike. I’ve just completed a weight training session on my back and chest. But I will have to leave the cardio for today because my leg is just too sore. And it is heavily swollen. I’m hoping that it’s feeling much better in the next few days so that I can get back on track.

Last week I gained a bit of weight but I still lost body fat and lowered my body fat percentage in the process. It was a fantastic result and my mindset just wants it to keep continuing.  So I’m feeling a little down that I can not exercise at my full capacity due to the knee injury. I haven’t got a clue how I did it though, I just woke up with a swollen and very sore knee. I’m also bit gutted because I’m off work this week so I was planning to do around 2 hours each day on my cardio. But if things don’t improve quick I won’t be able to do any cardio.

I’m usually very lucky with injuries and I can not remember the last time a injury stopped me exercising. But this is going to be a long journey, so it’s just another stepping stone that I need to step over and keep moving forward on my body fat percentage journey. I’m sat on the couch now with my knee wrapped in ice trying to reduce the swelling, so I can maybe go for a brisk walk tomorrow for my cardio workout. Don’t think I’ll be ready for cardio training on the bike for a few days, but I’m usually a quick healer so you never know.

I’ve got eleven days to go on the 50,000 calories in 50 day challenge and I want to make sure that I still achieve it. This is something that I’ve been working very hard at and if I don’t reach the 50,000 calories target I will feel like it’s a failure. And that is something that I don’t want to do. I can burn calorie lifting weights but I’m getting good results from just doing three weight training session per week any more and my muscles are not getting any time to repair themselves and grow. Hopefully I will wake up in the morning with my knee feeling a lot better so I can start burning lots of calories again on the exercise bike.