Shoulder update after fitness sabbatical

Wow, long time no post! We were on vacation for a month and, since I didn't get around to posting in August before we left, here I am posting only at the end of September.

In the way of things related to fitness that I have to report, the following on my ongoing shoulder saga. I took my latex bands with me on vacation thinking that, if I didn't have an opportunity to do any other exercising, I would at least do my physical therapy exercises for my shoulder. Well, I ended up not even doing that. So about the only exercise we got while vacationing was some walking and toting around luggage (some of which was pretty heavy and would have been a whole lot harder for me to manage had I not been doing strength training for the previous year or so). So, here's how things went with the shoulder during this hiatus from exercise.

My shoulder continued to bother me for about the first week or so but, after that the pain gradually went away altogether. I can say that up to the day when we were able to resume our strength training regime, well over a month after we had to interrupt it, my shoulder feels fine. Almost no noticeable pain when moving it in any direction or manner. Quite a contrast to when we were in the midst of our strength training regime, where it was regularly bothering me with certain movements. Not only that, but my other shoulder (left) had begun similarly to have pain.

I'm not sure what all this means. Surely it means that a break from strength training has helped to heal this problem. The big question is, of course, whether the problem will return after we resume our strength training, or whether the break allowed the shoulder to totally heal. Our first day of resuming our strength training was today and I can say, at least at this point, that I don't feel any particular discomfort in that shoulder: it feels pretty much the same as it has for the last 3 weeks or so, i.e., pretty normal. I'll be keeping tabs on this and posting the results here.

That's about it for this post. I will just mention in closing that I'm strongly considering reducing our twice-weekly strength training workouts to once-weekly. I'll post more about the logic behind that decision if and when I make it.