Defeated by a Roundhouse Punch

Last night in class we were doing Roundhouse Punches, I looked at myself in the mirror and made sure my form was replicating that of our Instructor:




What I didn't count on was the fact that the bursae in my right shoulder would be complaining that very evening. The pain was not excruciating, but it definitely caught my attention. The area over the joint was tender and hurt whenever I put the slightest bit of pressure on it.  I was a bit surprised since I have not experienced any post workout pain in quite some time. I took a nice warm shower last night, and got a good night's sleep, but when I woke up this morning, the area still felt tender. I found some good shoulder stretches:


Shoulders Stretching Exercises

which I plan to keep repeating every hour or so in hopes that the pain will subside by tonight.  I am leaning towards participating in my Cardio Kickboxing class tonight without my usual hand weights to avoid further injury to the shoulder.  I will gauge how I feel before class and will err on the side of caution even if my ego will have to suck this one up.

My 2 partners last night were on 2 completely opposite poles of the fitness scale.  For the first part of class, I  paired up with an older woman who had difficulty executing too many kicks in a row at one time.  For the second part of class, I paired up with a muscular young man, who was about a half-foot taller than myself.  We were practicing defending against choke-holds coming from behind.  I was having trouble executing all the steps of the move and my partner's strength was quite overwhelming.  So much so, that the Instructor asked him to be a bit more gentle with me, which is something not normally done since the goal is to mimic real life conditions.  By the end of class, my neck looked like I had gone to some weird auto-erotic party that had gone terribly wrong...lol.

Other than that, I have managed to lose .5 lbs in a week. That's actually pretty good at this point. I am happy about this and hopefully will see another half pound gone by the beginning of next week.