This cardiac rehab thing is really getting me down. Yesterday was an absolute disaster. I think I did too much. I'll spare the details but suffice it to say that I felt so crappy after I finished working out yesterday that it took me two hours to get home, most of it waiting until I felt fit to drive, and I spent the rest of the day on the couch. I took a long nap, too, and today I feel like a wet rag--a very sore and tense wet rag. In short, I'm flaring [1].
John thinks I'm not exercising enough on my "down" days, but I thought you were supposed to be able to exercise three times a week and have it mean something. I'm progressing; I started out doing 20 minutes of aerobic activity, and now I'm doing 40 minutes, and that was in the span of 3 weeks. I'm wondering if I'm pushing myself too fast, but then there's always that nagging voice in the back of my head: "You're just a lazy no-good malingerer looking for attention." I'm going to talk with the gals at the clinic.
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