Pain is weakness leaving the body

This morning's exercise routing consisted of an hour of latin dancing, followed by an hour of weight-resistance in Body Pump class. And again, my little pinched-nerve thingy was giving me grief. I just don't know what to do to make it go away completely.

At any rate, dancing was fun as usual. I think this class alleviates some of the longing I feel occasionally for a night out on the town. Back in the day, before I became a mom, I did a lot of club dancing. And as anyone with a young child knows, the nights of partying and rolling in at 3 am are quickly replaced with nights of praying for sleep only to wake up at 3 am to cries for mommy.

Shaking my butt in a room full of other women, at 9:30 in the morning may not be what it used to, but at least I am getting a nice healthy workout. And then when I follow it up with a full-body session of weight training, I really feel great.  I had enough energy all day to do 2 loads of laundry, and clean our house, too. Plus a little hide-and-seek with Saxon.  

When Damon got home from work tonight I told him that my nerve pain didn't seem to be going away. And while rubbing my back, he said something I had heard earlier today at the gym, "pain is weakness leaving the body." I looked at him oddly and couldn't believe he had repeated the same thing that Cheryl (Body Pump instuctor) had said while we were doing a strenuous set of lunges. Guess if you hear it twice in a day, it must be true!