Arg! The dreaded injury and probably poor decisions

Since July 4th of this year, I have been doing push ups and sit ups everyday. My origional goal was to do 150 of each and I started out doing them (push ups) in sets of 11 because I wasn't that strong. Over time I increased my reps to 21, 31 and finally 41. I have been doing over 160 pu and su everyday for the past 2 months or so. I was even planning on increasing my reps again to 51 on Monday.

Everything was going according to plan. Everything was going just fine until this Friday when my dreaded reaccuring injury showed up and reared it's ugly head - my back.

Now for those of you who don't know, I have a back injury. I had surgery years ago and they attached two steel rods to my spine. It has healed but still causes me problems on occasion.

One such occasion was this Friday.

Now normally I just hit the painkillers and push through it for the week or so until it gets better and I'm on my way. This time however, I have my daily quota of push ups and sit ups to fill. Friday night and Saturday night I managed to get them done, but I've been paying for it today.

And so the delemma: Do I take a day or two off and heal. Or do I push through and get 'er done?

It was such a struggle to get to where I am now with my push ups and sit ups, I'm scared to back off and risk back-sliding. I've been crawling forward ever so slowly for the past four months so the thought of having to gain back ground upsets me.

But then the logical part of me chimes in with, "So you miss a couple of days, so what? It's not going to make a difference really."

I can't stop doing them. I won't stop doing them. I've been doing them everyday for four months, during exams, weddings, funerals, bad days, good days, all days. If I miss a couple of days for this, what's to stop me from missing a couple days when I'm tired from tests, or busy with work or just don't feel like it.

So I have to keep doing them; I'm going to keep doing them.
I just have to go about it differently.

Instead of doing them (the sets) all at once and taxing my injury, I can do the sets farther apart. Maybe I can do crunchies instead of situps or smaller sets altogether. I just need to go easy and go often.

I think that'll work. I hope that'll work.

So much for probably poor decisions:)
Stupid injuries! Arg!