Shutting it down

So yesterday at the gym I tried to do a more normal workout and again was greeted with some mild right side pain and feeling more fatigued than normal.  I am wondering if the fatigue and side pain are two mutually exclusive things.  Maybe I have some sort of rib cartilage injury or muscle tear/strain that just has become chronic.  I decided I need to see if I can differentiate between the two.

To me the only way to do it is to stop doing resistance training for a solid week and see if at least the side pain evaporates.  Now asking me to not exercise for a week is not good for my sanity so I intend to still hit the gym daily but I’ll only do stretching followed by cardio, most of it on the cross trainer machine.  I like throwing the machine into cardio mode where you enter your weight and age and it automatically adjusts the difficulty level to keep your heart rate at an effective cardio level. I’m hoping this experiment at least gives me some tangible results.

This weekend has the normal suspects on the docket.  I’m hoping to enjoy it as much as possible.  I need to get my Directv Sunday Ticket reactivated, a process I dread each year as it normally requires lengthy time on the phone with various staff until I stumble upon one who knows how to handle my non-standard configuration.