Back discomfort altered my perspective on exercising.
I sat and worried about how good or horrible my work was for endless hours while I was writing my PhD dissertation.
I had little time for training because I was juggling graduate school and becoming a new mother at the same time.
I managed to fit in weekend snowboarding trips to the mountains and lived the typical weekend warrior lifestyle.
The ache then started.
My back would throb with a searing, excruciating agony that would make me slant on one side.
When it originally got worse, I had to miss work for nearly two months and endure what seemed like endless physiotherapy appointments.
When the discomfort subsided, I immediately went back