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Tenderloin
I started running (well, jogging) again over lockdown, doing the couch to 5K, and it seems to have stuck for the first time in years; on previous attempts I got bored or injured and drifted away. I bought a Garmin watch this time round to help me structure my training, and having the data to hand seems to help with motivation. I can now run 10K without stopping, and am working on getting faster. I have found I've been getting stiff after speed intervals and long runs, but am partly putting that down to it being over a decade since I last ran more seriously (so I guess recovery's no longer quite as easy), and the fact that I still need to lose a fair chunk of weight (lockdown pounds and otherwise). I was surprised to find that I've been feeling it in my back and abs, but it's been no worse than the usual post-exercise DOMS, and the flipside is that my posture's much better, and I've had zero other back problems since I started running again. Once my running load's stabilised a bit more I plan to start adding kettlebells back in.