lol. @lkpducky , what i mean is: the toe-bone's connected to the bum bone. it honestly is, and i'm the proof. so yeah, starting as far down as i can get, trying to pin the trouble spots (mostly fascia) and then do the range of motion i'm trying to bring back. and then the thing where you prop yourself on your hands over a softball and roll it up and down the entire length of each hamstring muscle. it's done a mile more for me t han the foam rolling does because it actually gets in between the individual muscles rather than just mashing teh whole gang of them all at once. so awkward though, leg work.

it's too soon to make projections and i changed my mind about taking my work to the gym for today. i do a few inches' worth, let it settle, check my squat and the way that it feels. and as one segment frees up new issues appear in the next segment along when i do a full squat. so yeah, i think it's all good and it's definitely causing changes. but right now it's causing too many changes all at once for me to be ready to put weight on it.

klrenn wrote: »

@canadianlbs Yay on being able to abduct all your toes...

It made me laugh because I remember in my musculoskel class *mumble* years ago, when the professor was talking about the muscle that abducts the pinkie toe, we all started arguing with him...said it can't be done...

He had us all take off our shoes and focus on that pinkie toe, and lo and behold they all moved! We were shocked!

heh. i wouldn't have argued with him, but only because i can practically open jars with my right foot. which is the reason why i'm working so much on the left. it's probably more important to have left-right symmetry in your own body than to worry too much about what other bodies can do.

i found out about chimerism this week too, for some reason or other. it's been beyond a mind-boggle to me, but given how huge my own left-right difference is that's probably something i wouldn't argue with either these days. [not seriously serious]

LeelooX2014 wrote: »

Could I do my typical run today?

i'm not a trainer and never been a runner, but most of my lifting time i've been a 5-day bike commuter. my own experience was always that it's the lifting that takes the edge off the biking, rather than other way round. i can't remember a time i ever skipped lifting just because the bike ride had been hard - barring those periods where i felt like cycling had aggravated an injury in some muscle that i know i normally use for lifting.

my tday workout went well today, yay. didn't get my top sets for either of the lifts, but still a good time. press 55/60/[strikethrough]70[/strikethrough] and deadlift 135/155/[strikethrough]175[strikethrough]. i think i went in intending not to do the heavy deadlifts all along, just because of that injury. and the press, pmuch same really.

fun part though was:

tl;dr: mr t is a grip fanatic so we nattered a lot about the left hand, and then i had a brainwave halfway through press warmup sets and tried doing them with the axle instead. IT WORKS. fatter bar lets me line up even my left fingers, and having my left pinkie square on the bar lets me activate everything that's connected to it because i can use it fully.

i still didn't get even one 70lb press, but mr t watched me try and realised that i'm dropping my elbows under the bar before i even start the lift at that weight. because scared to commit the back of my left shoulder to it, is why. because i don't have my pinkie in the game to activate it. i did try it several times and get stuck at about the nose the first two or three . . . and then at the hairline on the last one. so it's one of those 'not yet' things but i think it's hopeful.

i finished up with some static holds with 70 just to get myself used to the shelf thing with a full grip on both sides. and some turkish getups. oh yeah, and pulldowns later at the rec centre because i'm so high on this working-left-shoulder idea.