Alright, lots of things to catch up on. First, big ups to the Royals for winning
their first World Series in quite a while.
I haven’t followed baseball at all since the strike (yes THAT strike
from like 20 years ago), but I've been a Royals fan my whole life, so it's good
to see them get some well-deserved shine.
Which leads me to the a typical “man, I'm tired”. Up late to watch them win the series, then
got up early to get on this new training plan.
Why a new training plan? Let me
tell you a story.... or continue the narrative of the last story. Past 4 weeks, been recovering from shearing
the muscles in my calf. Coming along
really well. Last Wednesday, went and
saw my guy Dennis Dolan, and he did something different. Put my ankle up on a foam roller (I'm lying
face down on the floor). I don't know
exactly what he did, but it felt like he was using his heel, or something like
that, and providing pressure from left to right (as opposed to up and down)
across the muscle fibers. He said it was
breaking up some of the things the north/south doesn't get.
It hurt.
Quite a bit actually.
I think a few times he tried to get me to squirm or cry out a
little... don't know that for sure, I
just suspect it. Either way, it didn't
happen. It got bad enough that I bit my
hand rather than cry out. #prideissues By the time he was done, he said he was very
impressed that I didn't cry out or complain loudly. When I got up, there were sweat marks where
my forearms had been... so I sweated the pain out... pretty sure that’s a natural response to pain. Even if it’s not, it might give you an idea
how it felt.
The end result though, I was finally able to squat
squat. Like not just down with a lean to
the rights, but down evenly (mostly)... first time in a month. AWESOME!!
I had some new mobility stuff to work on in the coming week or so, then
I was going to clear myself for active duty. Finally!
#cantwait Fast forward to the
next day, about midday. Was going down
the stairs at work, at close to a normal pace (faster than I'd been going the
past month), and about 3/4 of the way down the second set of stairs, I fell a
pop.
No.
Please God no!
Fuck!
Started tightening up instantly. I had somewhere to be, so I just hobbled
along... but man... When I got back to my desk, folks on my team
we're like are you alright? Just shook
my head. Took everything in my not to
start tearing up. Gave them the brief
rundown and got some condolences and sympathy.
I tell you what, I've finally had that experience that feeling where
you're so frustrated/angry you start to cry.
I’d always been able to empathize with people that did it, but now I can
actually sympathize a little. I didn't
cry mind you, I'm a man (I just puffed out my chest while sitting here… for the
visual), but man I wanted too.
Thankfully, this “pop” felt like a much smaller one than the
first time, and sitting here a few days later, it's definitely not as bad as
the initial. Still, I'm back to the easy
stuff, working my way back to traditional WODs.
Alright, so, as you can tell by the dates of my last posts,
I haven't been posting much, and thats because I haven't been Wodding
much. I could still walk, but I was
trying to take it easy, work my way back into the box. Didn’t
feel like typing it all out with no new updates. This time, that won’t be the case… it can’t
be, I’m losing too much ground on my goals.
Thus, yesterday I spent time with Brian yesterday, had to hire him to
make me some tailored workouts for me over the next 4-6 weeks. Today was day one, which started much too
early for me... but I still went and got it done.
Did some banded stretching, pvc passthru's, static holds,
things like that, then 5 rounds of a medium weight bent over rows. 95# seems to be a bit heavy for doing that in
sets of 10... I had struggles... so that might lighten, depending on what coach
says. After that, some good ol'
fashioned bench press. It was another 5
rounds of sets of 10, with ascending weight.
205 was my last PR, but I wasn't pushing it up 10 times in a row... I
made what I thought was a sensible decision of 95. 95 was kinda rough... but I pushed on, adding
10lbs each time. The last set at 125 had
me stopping at 5, 7, and 9th reps.
Stopping being just holding the bar up... Almost to the point of needing a
spotter.
After all that, it was some rowing and air dyne. The rowing was 6-250m rows with 2 minutes
rest, and then 3 sets of 5 minutes for max calories on the air dyne. The rowing sucked... not because it was
rowing, but because it was short rowing.
I'm going to partial (think 25%) depth, before starting the pull. Trying to minimized the calf impact. All times were sub 1 minute, so I guess
that's good, considering how much I lose from a full pull. The air dyne was wicked. Had to push from mid foot instead of the
balls of my feet (again, trying to minimize the calf impact). Legs wanted to die. Interesting thing there was I improved each
time... pushing myself harder each time.
71, 75, and 79 I believe (have to check). Need to get that up to 100 calories in 5
minutes... I've got goals, and more importantly, someone to beat (looking at
you Herm).
I stated to walk out of the box as soon as I was done, but I
felt a lot of… I don’t know if pressure is the right word, but I felt a lot of
something in my quads… a swollen feeling, so instead of just sitting down, I
went and grabbed a roller. I didn’t
stick around for long, did a few passes on just my quads, I was in a hurry, but
the little bit I did was better than the nothing I Was going to do. Need to get into the habit of rolling
everything.
So, thats me catching up to now. I’m sore in the arms and shoulders while
sitting here… I expect tomorrow to be some rope work (big rope fixed to an “anchor”
type stuff). We’ll see.
Still doing the Keto//OS.
I’ve got my annual labs for work on Wednesday, so we’ll see what impact
it’s had on those, as well as get a new baseline weight to go off of. The mental benefits are amazing on this
stuff, and for that reason alone I’m going to continue to use it. No cobwebs, no mid-day drowsiness, amazing focus. I haven’t had to take the 1-2 5hour energies
I was drinking DAILY to make it through.
Another benefit I’ve gotten has been the reduction of inflammation. Spectacular.
This whole calf injury, I probably should have been on 6-800mg of
ibuprofen every few hours. I haven’t
needed any. It’s pretty awesome
stuff. That’s my testimonial, that’s how
it’s helped me. You owe it to yourself
to check it out. http://4ebr54.pruvitnow.com/ #pruvit
With that, I’m getting back to work, lunch break is
over. Catch you guys and gals later,
thanks for sticking with me!
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