I know that you were in a accident and you can cant dorsiflex very well, but what are you exactly trying to do with your rehab, and what are you doing for rehab? Is it all soft tissue/scar tissue work, or are you trying to strengthen aswell? Do you still feel pain? Is one foot better than the other?
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Kettlebells are SO MUCH FUN! I’m with you on the wrist rolling bit, I just don’t get it. I’m going to tell you to not overthink it and just do the exercise, and I’m actually laughing while I type this 
Hmm…i’m clearly not a professional so I can only muse along with you, but I might have to agree with the trainer re: the cycle on foot flexibility. If you’re goal is to do more plyo work, but in order to do plyo work you need foot flexibility, then it would make sense to do a cycle to gain that flexibility and then put in place prehab in your next cycle that maintains that flexibility.
But what does a cycle of foot flexibility look like? I mean, you can do other things while doing that, no?
Anyways, like theBird, I’m also curious about your rehab work. I’m listening…nod
If it means anything I didn’t gain anything when I quit and i hardly do cardio.
I smoked for nearly 17 years, ew.
I love kettlebells.
I have used bosu balls but not for standing on. I like lying over them to stretch my back, amongst other things. Also good for push-ups if you hold the sides with the round bit downwards.
I have a wobbleboard at home which I’m supposed to use for strengthening my shitty ankle but I hardly ever use it to be honest. They are good though, if you’ve got the patience.
now in my 3rd day of no cigarettes…
for when chocolate WILL be eaten:
1/4 cup almond flour
1 Tablespoon cocoa powder
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1 Tablespoon of the darkest sugar ya got
2 Tablespoons butter
1 Tablespoon water or milk or whatever
some vanilla if ya like
1 egg
couple squares of chocolate broken up a bit (i used 80% bet nibs would work great)
mix together with a fork in a small bowl.
cover with microwave safe wrap. pierce top.
microwave for 1 minute.
you want to turn it out because the chocolate will sink and make a gooey sauce.
best eaten with icecream, really. probably supposed to serve 2.
kills chocolate cravings. yup.
i went for a paddle in the harbor. it didn’t feel so cold once i got used to it. stripped down to compression stuffs but you need to wade out a fair way before the harbor gets deep and it is much colder out there. made it under once quick but too cold, really. need a wetsuit. going a bit crazy with the no smoking thing at the moment.
feeling pretty darned angry / irritable. eating, training, sleeping are the only things that don’t have me feeling angry / wanting a smoke.
can breathe a little easier, though, already.
and…
i’m on the dole. yay. i’m on the dole in a beautiful country by a beautiful beach in the beautiful summer (not that it is that hot but it is nice and light). sure i’m broke… but i can go to the gym and sleep and swim… oh. and i forked out for a decent mattress when i relocated and god damn my bed is wonderful and comfortable. two rows of windows in my room and i can sleep with the curtains open and wake up with the light from the sun. life is good, really. life is good. i’ve even been playing a teeny tiny bit of world of warcraft… life is good… will head back to the gym for spin (yay cardio!!) and balance later tonight. life is good.
(sorry… think i OD’d a bit on chocolate…)
World of warcraft? Is that on the PC? Do you have a X-box? You should get a X-box and then we can play fifa 12 against each other online.
I think you need to go easy on the chocolate. Its getting to your head. I allow myself one block of lindt 85% dark chocolate every 2 weeks. It has antioxidants, and less sugar than normal chocolate.
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Alexus: You go girl! There’s nothing better you can do for your body, for your lifting, than quitting smoking. Be angry!
Good luck on the smoking, its been about 5 years for me (some hiccups along the way of course) but its really worth it, try picking up some other bad habit just not unhealthy! Maybe start beating up people, possibly voyeurism, how becoming a kleptomaniac! Just kidding stay strong homie!
yay on quitting smoking
feet health is important too
as much as I dislike the guy,
his stuffs on feet is really good
Marv Marinovich is all about the wobble board
unilateral feet junk
just saying
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but i can go to the gym and sleep and swim… oh. and i forked out for a decent mattress when i relocated and god damn my bed is wonderful and comfortable. two rows of windows in my room and i can sleep with the curtains open and wake up with the light from the sun.
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sounds like paradise to me
Where’s Lexy???
I wanna do that snatch & then 3 OH squats like you, need to work on getting outta the hole. Almost got 38kg but feet too wide and I couldn’t get up.
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Where’s Lexy???
I wanna do that snatch & then 3 OH squats like you, need to work on getting outta the hole. Almost got 38kg but feet too wide and I couldn’t get up. [/quote]
She OD’d on chocolate.
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Where’s Lexy???
I wanna do that snatch & then 3 OH squats like you, need to work on getting outta the hole. Almost got 38kg but feet too wide and I couldn’t get up. [/quote]
She OD’d on chocolate.
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Death by chocolate…I’ve seen it all too many times. So sad, so sad…
Come back here, you!!
I’m glad to hear you’ve landed in a good place. Cheering you on for the no smoking!
yeah I wanna know how her chins are going: team chin/pull up arrrrrrrrhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
inset kiwi fighting dance!
i feel irritable. most of the time. kind of annoyed. people piss me off. even when they haven’t done anything… but i feel kinda lonely as well…
i remember this feeling didn’t pass when i quit for 3 months.
maybe this is just what i’m like when i’m not self medicating with cigarettes. maybe it is the real me. or maybe it just takes longer than that to adjust.
back in not writing mode. couldn’t seem to write last time i quit smoking, either. guess that is because i don’t enjoy writing anymore.
probably i should look into doing a PT training course or something like that. since that is all i seem to feel like doing with my life.
thanks for the reference kmc. that helped me feel a little bit better… had the orientation session with the PT and… well… it is something to do, i guess. will hopefully pick up the odd thing. i don’t have trouble expressing my irritation with ideas i find stupid like using the pussy pad for squats or not breaking parallel or whatever. i guess eventually we will come to some sort of understanding. whatever.
maybe i’m crazy…
but i kinda like training with people who aren’t hardcore. i find it encourages me to be more hardcore… but it also encourages me to do what needs to be done rather than trying to impress them or whatever. because sometimes they are impressed by the dinky shit anyway, perhaps. like people seem impressed to see me bench the bar so i don’t feel like a dork for spending so long with just the bar while i warm up for my work sets. ditto for squats and stuff.
anyway…
um… sorry i’m kinda in self imposed exile for my crankiness right now.
got 7x2; 3x1 chin-ups for my last assignment. a little bit of epilepsy every now and then but mostly alright.
getting into doing intervals on the elliptical. it is on a hill then recovery setting and doing sprints of 30 seconds now. think i should be able to build the sprints up to 60 seconds and eventually 2 minutes. something to do anyway. ho hum.
the gym is pretty small… so i’m kinda salient… so i feel a bit awkward about going there too much… still… whatever. whatever.
there is a board for cardio (guys and gals) and a board for strength stuff (only guys). apparently they just recently hired their first female strength trainer (though have chicks taking bodypump of course). i think i met her. she seems cool. a cyclist. anyway… i gotta powerclean more than 75kg to get on the board. that isn’t so terribly hard… doing 50kg at the moment. will make that a priority, though. even though i bet the dude who got that is like 100kg or something.
Alexus, one thing I found when I quit smoking that seemed to be unspoken about was depression. It totally sucked! I had nicotine patches for a while that gave me moments of relief but I still had all sorts of shit going through my head.
I think that’s normal. I actually wondered the very same thing you’re thinking (I think we think so much a like lol!) and was afraid that maybe I was just depressed/crazy all this time and the nicotine kept me sane. But what is really happening is withdrawal. The nicotine is like morphine in terms of addictiveness and the withdrawal means your brain is not getting a lot of the drug that made it feel good, even if very subtly, for so long and you just need to adapt. It takes waaaay too long but it does get better, I promise.
You probably already know that but it might not hurt to hear anyhow. The first time I ever quit I was unprepared for it because most people don`t talk about that aspect. But when I’ve seen others close to me quit they go through it too. It varies for people I guess.
Realizing it was withdrawal helped me to hang on and wait for it to pass. And it did.
I had to go for A LOT of brisk walks with my ipod cranked and thinking about ‘warming’ my brain and force myself to be positive and that didn’t always work. (This lead to running, btw)
Good luck, I’m thinking of you!