First day on my 5 AM Journey

As I wake up today it’s 4:45 and my head is pounding. Feels like someone is hitting a hammer to the back of my head with a nail over and over again but I know I have to workout. I wake up at 4:45 so I can give myself a little extra time to stretch and get myself mentally prepared to go outside and walk to the gym. Today is a little foggy outside because of the rain and my lower body is still sore from a workout that I did a couple days ago. Still wanting to be dedicated to the gym like I said I would be I proceed to get myself out of bed and get myself to the gym. The one thing that I hate about going to the gym here at school is the actual walk. Living on campus the walk is literally all downhill. So during this walk especially today my lower body is just aching with pain but I know right now that it is all mental for me. This is how it’s always has been even this year during basketball season I found out that even when my body is hurting if I can find a way to push through it and distract my mind it dosen’t hurt as bad. Proceeding into the gym I noticed that my lower back is aching as well but after doing deadlifts two days ago after not doing them since basketball season ended I figured this is something that might occur. My warm up on the bike got my body lose and my headache seemed to have gone away and 30 minutes in I seem to feel like I’m going to power through this workout. Today was an arms day and I wanted to do a little bit of abs at the end of it. But while I’m breezing through as I’m moving onto abs I realize that my back start aching again. I think I came up too fast while I was doing a russian twist and it literally feels like something is stabbing me in the lower back. Now having to cut my workout short I move onto the foam roller to try to loosen it up a bit and try to get the pain to calm down. But it seemed like the more I foam rolled then the more it hurt so eventually I just called it quits for today and what was supposed to be an hour and 10 minute workout turned into 45 minutes. And when it comes to working one thing about me is that I hate when my workouts are cut short especially due to something that is out of my control. Being an athlete a part of me wanted to keep going but then again I know my body’s limitations. I hope over the weekend I can get enough rest and recover so I can give you all a better story than today!