January-lly committed, good things will come (Check-in Thread)
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And although bone relocating tape job is still not particularly pleasant.... i don’t think the ankle has done it’s poppy thing since last night
this would be CRAZY if it turned out you've had an extra bone all along that explains some of this. i googled navicular, by the way. something that i didn't know about yesterday.
for myself, i'm sort of looking forward to seeing sports doc next week about this x-ray. nervous too, because i don' tknow how i'll react if he comes in and throws something new at me like osteoarthritis in that right side, which is now being so horrible. but assuming it isn't that (it can't be, right? osteo doesn't just suddenly show up overnight, and this literally did), i really really would like to get an actual look at my own hip sockets. i want to know what my anthropometry's like, whether it's severely abnormal or completely mundane. i just want to know.
spent today almost literally with/on my hamstrings and that glute. sports doc says the hamstring is coming along, but when i explained my problems with equipment for the nordic falls he agreed that i shouldn't do them if i can't set up square enough to be sure i'm not just making new problems for other tissue that has been fine until now. instead he put me back on the table-top plank thing. it's pretty neat, for something that seems so tame. just lie on the floor and hook your heels onto any surface that you can reach comfortably. couch arm, kitchen counter, whatever.
now use your hamstrings only and bridge yourself up with straight legs. he told me to start with 3x20 sec holds, then progress to one leg at a time, adn then start adding in the eccentric lowering too. i'm doing that anyway, becuase duh you have to go back to the floor sooner or later with them. but i'm liking it because it's slow and simple enough that i can really concentrate on getting into the muscle i want to work with.
aside from that, repeated projects in the big campaign to do the hip abduction WITHOUT glute maximus. i'm not sure if i'm getting it right, but i got something to burn pretty hard and if i went by the sensation it would be my glute med and or minimus, so i guess i'll take that for now. i'm back down to about four pounds just because it seems really unlikely i'd be managing 7.5 if i had the right muscles, given how weak his test showed them up for (still) being.
nothing else going on. the good news is that he did say there was progress, and that does actually line up with the impression i've had my own self. so i guess i'll block off another two weeks, which would take me exactly to the two-month mark. and try to do this rehab more precisely and see where two weeks will get me.
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Thank you!canadianlbs wrote: »Last day of January, happy to have a new PR in Deadlift today, my long time dream, lifted 50 kg/110 lbs today!! Yay!! \o/
congratulations. that's really awesome.If I may add to the "meh" follow-up thing: I'm going to need to address some issues myself and you guys are making me feel rather meh about it all.
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@canadianlbs yeah, after my own googling I think I have more questions for her.
Because my brain jumped to navicular in horses. Which is a common source of lameness. And is kind of a mad tendon/ligament, degenerative lameness thing, so in a weird way made sense but I knew wasn’t quite what she meant due to anatomy, but assumed she might be trying to give an explanation in a way that I could relate to.
Then she actually was manipulating the placement of my navicular bone, and taped the devil out of things to attempt to keep it where she put it... so then I guessed she meant something about the placement of bone itself
Then I get home and find out there is actually a navicular syndrome in people. And decided I had totally misunderstood.... but at the same time... I would hope, that as many people have looked at my darn X-ray and mri.... someone might have, just maybe, mentioned if there was an extra bone in there.
So, really need to figure out which of the 3 options she actually was trying to convey.
Really, all I know currently is this waking up at 3 am and not go back to sleep business is getting really old, and as much as I enjoy you lovely people, I should not be talking to you right now.1 -
Monday, workout a:
Squat bw, 55, 5x5
Bench 50, 5x5
Row 70 5,5,5,3,3
Failed on row the last two sets, and even before, I don't think I was getting the full Rom. I'm just not strong. The next day, I experimented with rows, starting at the empty bar (20lbs). I found that at 40lbs, I had full Rom, but at 50lbs, I couldn't get that last little squeeze to my bra band. It might be worth mentioning that I broke the spinous process of my t8 vertebra back in November, which might effect this lift. I don't feel pain with the lift, but I do wonder if it's holding me back. Or maybe I really am that weak.
Wednesday workout b:
Squat bw, 30, 60 5,5,5,3,3
OHP 50 5, 3, 2, 3, 0
DL 105 1x5
Really terrible today. Failed at basically everything. Couldn't even get the bar off the rack for last set of OHP. DL were downright ugly. I don't understand why I'm failing at everything so soon. I did the program before, and looking back at my records, I was up to 75lbs squats, 60lbs OHP, 75lbs bench, 70lbs rows. I didn't do DL at that time, so no record of that, but still...! The only difference is that before, I started with bar weight, and worked up much slower, only increasing 5lbs once a week instead of every workout.0
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