26th training session in the gym. Broke a good sweat in the warmup. Talked to my trainer let him know my back continues to feel better each day. That's encouraging. Feels like I'm doing the right things and able to progress in the gym in a way where it's not really a setback, but just taking it slower and a more holistic approach to what I want to get out of this. Today was a lot of core movement. Did one circuit of five different movements. All heavy hitters where there was some weight and resistance when I was moving. I wasn't twisting with the weight or jumping with the weight. For example, one of the movements was imagine having a sled and then a rope tied to the sled on the turf. And you're pulling the sled toward your chest and squeezing at your shoulder blades. That was something I did. Another movement was a core exercise where I was pulling the sled by doing side shuffling, and holding my arms out in front of me and keeping tension on the rope throughout. That was pretty challenging. I didn't expect it to engage my core the way it did. The real kicker if you ever want to get your abs fired up, I just took a physio ball and my trainer called it stir the pot. You put your forearms on the physio ball and do light circles in the plank position. You do that for fifteen seconds, switch direction, another fifteen seconds, and go a full set of those. After the third set of those I was really engaged and holding on the best I could with my core but could tell that was my limit. So feeling pretty good right now. Going into next week I have my chiropractor appointment on Monday, and looking forward to hopefully getting the thumbs up to getting back to a little more intensity come February.