Early last week my back started to hurt. Unlike most people with back pain, it wasn't focused on the lower back or neck area. Instead, it was purely on the left shoulder blade area. As soon as I noticed it, I stopped all upper body exercise at the gym. I just got back from my second chiropractor visit and have news regarding my workouts.

The good news is that I don't have any horrible spinal injury or birth defect. The bad news is that I've had two visits and will have at least three more, all next week. I guess this is standard. They always rope you into a series of visits to fix your issues. The other good news, though, is that I'm allowed to do any exercise I want! Sort of. I have the go-ahead to continue doing upper body exercises at the gym. I have to lower the weights a bit, or potentially a lot. In short, if it hurts, lower the weight. Or skip that exercise until the muscle has recovered enough to do it.

This is great news for me. I don't care that I've already had two weeks of setback from increasing my weight. This is because my goal isn't to become a huge muscle man and because I don't have a specific date I want to be fit by. So I'm just glad I can be consistent and workout at the gym and do softball and anything else I choose to do, as long as it doesn't hurt my back.

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