Thursday mornings are usually a time for soreness for me, but one I appreciate. For 2/3rds of the year, I play basketball on Wednesday nights, and I've always had some tightness or ache the day after, but at 48, well, these occurrences have increased. I can count on my ankles or feet to be achey - not pain as much as the dull reminder that they were used harder than normal yesterday, and they comment for a while after I get up, and then those aches go away.
Sometimes my right shoulder is sore, sometimes a tendon or ligament elsewhere. Lately my lower back has been tightening up a bit. Sometimes I know when something occurred during basketball that snagged me, most of the times I don't. I used to bemoan the Thursday Aches, if only as a reminder that hell, I'm getting older, my body's not as prepared as it should be for Wednesday nights. But I've actually learned to appreciate, if not enjoy, the Thursday aches now. Not because I like pain, but because it's at least hope that I'm doing something to slow down my decay.
What I really ought to do is pick up the regimen so that I "enjoy" the soreness three mornings a week, but it will have to be something other than hoops, something I can fit in while the kids are at school.
A personal foul on which a player hits an opponent on the hand or forearm, usually while trying to knock the ball away.
If we're gonna play NBA, we should start shooting free throws too. No smack the hand and arm!!
Plus it opens up using pick and roll and a lot less 3 point gunning.