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holding on by one fingertip. that is all. overhead press. hepburn 50's 7x2 and a triple tonight.
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on to 50 pounds for a new hepburn phase of the overhead press. that's pretty much all my news. took my dad to lift club with me, though :P to me it seems cruel and unusual treatment because he just sits in the corner next to the boom box, but he says he doesn't mind and it's 'interesting'. plus, he likes the people in the…
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soooooo . . . probably a month ago now, i vaguely remember this counsellor bending my ear about how it was 'CRUCIAL' for me to have/do something 'for me' on the regular, or else i'd crack up. not that i was arguing, but a cast of thousands seems to have no useful ideas as to where i was supposed to dig up the time to do…
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nice krok. PUSHUPS. yee hah. i . . . didn't do anything. drove my dad a 100km round trip to see family and ate a big lunch in between. totally worth it though. seriously.
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totally counts. like i got back to bike ride and that counts as well. i got to get down and physio though. except my dad's out of hospital (yay) and has come to stay here. and yay on that too, except i need the side of the couch that he's occupying to do my hamstrings :D
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hah. i like the title too, and i'm s o glad you're keeping up the connection . . . plus, sorry :s i just don't get around to it. i'm doing bridges when i have a moment and when the bum bothers me, but lifting isn't a thing. i go to work at 7-ish, leave at 4, go to the hospital and collect my dad, take him back at 9ish and…
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are we talking about some kind of specialized wedgie? disclaimer: has never used a gel seat.
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sorry guys . . . it's gotten like this in the past and when i was lifting actively i really missed the conversations and updates from other people. i am so addled these past two months by the *kitten* going on in my dad's life that the most i do is lie down now and then and wave in the direction of doing my bridges and…
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preachiness. i haven't been lifting or training at all (well, hardly). my dad went into hospital on good friday and as of right now he's still there. but i have nsv to report. - on march 28th they admitted him. - on april 15-ish i got to see him. you could hear him coming a long way down the hall by the shuffling sound. -…
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lol. while i was waiting for the screen to refresh i composed the post 'somebody tell me to do something muscle, okay?' i fetched my dad from the hospital, took him to the ferry terminal, then we rode the ferry and walked all the way to the train and rode the train doer en anderkant out to across the river. and FINALLY got…
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i have been off-again-on-again nursing a 'tendinopathy' for several months. probably be fixed by now if i were/had been able to produce more consistency in the work. i believe in my sports-doc's prescription of 'don't do the things that make it hurt', on experience. not 'don't do them to extremes' or 'don't do them without…
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yeah, sorry. the madness, the family stuff . . . funny thing is i do get told how i Have To do things that are only for me and every week when i get myself to the lift club it does work. i just don't do it/can't get myself in a groove when i go by myself atm. still doing ohp on fridays. hepburn programme is chugging along;…
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really hope so. it's so hard to see things like this happening.
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well, idk about you, but i read reviews to save me having to make a trip down there and use those eyes for myself. to the original question: i guess i'm more with the op. not that my equipment needs are terribly specialized, but really visual aesthetics are pretty low on my priority list. i think it is about that more than…
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you mean you're a student who dances, or a student AT some kind of dance school? because if it's the latter i'd be really sceptical of any dance school that didn't include that kind of thing in the programme itself. just saying.
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keeping my dad on his feet without being pulled off my own when he stumbles over a sidewalk ripple. ohp is all about putting the spare bike on the shelf :tongue: laundry day, transitions to and from car.
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:) yay a new thread. my left-side bum is getting thicker and more muscle-ey once again, under the influence of i'm-not-sure-which-things i've been doing lately. still hurts, still way too responsive to pain and still gives me the tendon trouble. and i am CONVINCED that some kind of minor obstruction or grit-thing or…
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^^^ but anyway. strict pressing still, and making a point of driving through my glutes right as i'm starting the bar seemed to make a big difference. idk, maybe while i'm trying to strengthen that glute med i should go back to more feet-apart stuff, but it's so nice and badass to press with your heels together i hesitate.
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went to the gym for the first time in forever, and it had that usual soothing effect of 'for x hours i'm not going to be thinking about anything'. still not lifting much, but i did do my next ohp workout at 45. 5 doubles, 3 triples. idunno about oerhead press. 45 pounds is okay but i'm really trying to work on whatever is…
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*raises hand*
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i wouldn't advise you about you. i don't mind telling you that i'd never foam roll directly over my own i.t. bands. did it once and it was a pretty major mistake in my case. there's nothing underneath mine but bone and i probably did myself more harm than good. i'm in the 'release the muscles that feed into it' school. i…
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yanno what . . . everyone i've come across/talked to/lifted alongside in four years since i took up lifting has got something they're not happy with, some challenge they're trying to rise to, some 'failure' or 'weakness' or form fix that they struggle with. everyone. and always. that's what strength training is. you…
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well, if you feel awkward and it's inhibiting you, canada's human rights thingy would call that harassment. 'just kidding' doesn't get them off the hook.
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'hip' is a pretty three-dimensional joint with a lot of parts and layers to it. first thing i'm going to say is if it hurts stop doing it. at LEAST until the current bout of hurting resolves. i have no way of knowing what yours is about but overuse injuries are not a fun thing. and honestly, get yourself into forensic mode…
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ugh. props to you for hanging in there. and damn it. that kind of *kitten* should be stopped by the management. you don't go to the gym to be used by a bunch of lunkheads to give themselves a cheap ego-boost at your expense. buncha dicks. mpfmghlsnarl. i'm not doing a lot. nothing but diy glute bridges, if i'm honest.…
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idk . . . somewhere in between? i guess my own annoyance with most of those 'fad' things isn't exactly a fad problem. it's more like the knee-jerk-answer problem. that does annoy me. i suspect people who insta-produce whatever the new thing is of sloppy thinking. and possibly condescension. falling hair? loose tonsils?…
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team hamstring \o/ yeah, mine too. i started out just getting told to do straight-legged raises - the sports doc told me to hook my heels over the edge of a couch arm or counter, and then use them to lift straight up. i couldn't do anything that asked for hip flexion so regular bridges were out. those straight-legged…
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i'm still doing the tweaked-by-me form of physio. which is, fundamentally, bridges because i finally seem able to do them in a way that involves that glute med. and then more bridges, and most of all bridges in which i take two or three minutes to lower once i've come up. and now and then hamstrings stuff, but i lost the…
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. . . without the short bursts of speed that the training would add :) i'm just picking nits. i don't have an allegiance to this either way, but thought i would add my remarks. i''m an on-again-off-again bike commuter, mostly because i only ride to work when i'm working, and my work is freelance. i can tell you that when i…
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what do they put in the petrie dish though? or maybe i don't want to know. yeah, actually i'm pretty sure that knowing it will just up the ick factor for me, but i'm curious. is it just sitting there dry while it grows? or is there some kind of amniotic-type fluid-y thing going on.
