How I got back into exercising after my spine surgery - L5-S1 fusion as a dancer
It’s been around a month since I last posted, as I’ve been busy enjoying my summer! However, I’ve also been using my time to exercise and try to regain the fitness I lost whilst recovering from my surgery. Today I want to talk a little bit about what this involves and how it’s impacted my back, both in positive and negative ways. So gyms were reopened at the end of July, and I knew that I really badly wanted to go as working out at home is something that I’ve always found difficult, because I find it much harder to motivate myself this way. I was a little bit worried at first due to everything with the Coronavirus, so I did leave it a few days before I went back as I thought that the initial first days after it opened would be incredibly busy. However, my first day back there were only four people in there! This really surprised me, but it also meant that I felt much more comfortable being there. For my first session I took things at my own pace as I was just trying to tes...