Complete rest might be the way to go. Sometimes it's just impossible to work through something. While working through the stress reaction in my mets last fall and winter, I took off one or two weeks several times, and I think it helped. Maybe I would've got better faster if I would've taken more time off, I dunno, hard to say. Maybe I could've worked through it more. I dunno, hard to say. A lot of people think there's a unique solution (often based on their own experiences), but sometimes with nagging injuries you just gotta keep experimenting, see how it goes, until you find the right therapy. I know with my nagging shoulder injury I made the mistake of resting it too much. It only started to get better when I added on more shoulder-specific weight exercises, and strengthened the supporting musculature. I had assumed that doing weights would be the exact wrong thing to do, since that's how I injured it, until my doctor recommended it.
JT, sometimes I think they secretly want to miss those workouts. I rarely ever miss one, I make damn sure I go unless I have an injury. My wife on the other hand gets foiled by the silliest things, which she then complains she wasn't able to go because of .... I really think she just takes any excuse so she doesn't have to go. Not that I say anything about it right now, she works full time at a super stressful job (I used to work there and know first hand just how stressful that place is) and she also is taking 14 credits at school. I won't really say anything much to her about the workouts until after December when she graduates.
B&A, I do have a skype account, but my connection doesn't seem to be great. I was trying to skype with my cousin who is deployed to Afghanistan the other day and I kept losing him because of my stupid connection. I will see if I can talk my buddy into taking a video of me walking today. Barefoot I assume. I'll also see if I can get him to take some video of me running, barefoot and shod. I want to see myself if I am running differently between the shod and bf.
