Cal, you never fail to crack me up…adding “biffer” to my vocabulary list.
Sharp pains are worrisome. You may have just tweaked a muscle not used to going that low. When I took my squat down to three risers from four, I felt sore in areas I hadn’t felt for awhile. Hopefully that is all it is.
75 hypers! I give up. You win!
I also bet much of that 5lbs is water. You probably only ate yourself up a pound or two which will drop when you return to eating more normally.
Yeah, i totally feel you on the weight issue. I’m so freaking bloated! So, I’ll be with you on the healthy eating bandwagon.
Good for you for testing out the ankle. I’m sure it’ll get better once you get a little more mobility on the foot, but def be careful. I think for most athletes, the problem is not that we “re-injure” ourselves but that we don’t let ourselves fully heal. 3 months tho seems like a fair amount of time to let your ankle heal, altho ankles can be tricky.
Good work on the prehab stuff - I should totally integrate this into my work out. Its excellent that finish strong on the hypers!
Cheers ladies.
The ankle’s a longterm problem - I sprained it as a kid and it’s been prone to spraining since then. Due to the practise I’ve had, I’m a bit of an expert with ankle rehab and could have been running on it again within a month, but the issue this time is that it’s disrupted my accessory navicular (there’s a whole post about that with pictures earlier in this thread). There’s very little blood supply in that area so healing will be ultra slow, if it happens at all. Main thing is the foot doesn’t feel any worse for being run on, so I think it can handle a bit more, so long as I take it slow.
The right knee is another issue. The company where I work used to be run from my boss’s house, which happened to be up a steepish hill about 20 minutes walk from the train station. To save time on the way home, I started running down the hill (and sometimes all the way from his house, in my coat, like a crazy person - although I always wore trainers) and it was then that the knee started giving me trouble. Did some reading and apparently running down hills is not good for knees, so I stopped. I would get the sharp pain from time to time, sometimes squatting and sometimes doing that little knee bend when you push press or jerk, but it hadn’t happened for quite a while. I believe it’s probably runner’s knee (patellar tendonitis) or possibly a meniscus problem. Hoping it’s not the latter, though.
My body’s obviously got some inflammation in it, due to less than optimal dietary habits (coworkers brining in home made cookies, peanut M&Ms and god knows what, not to mention me eating brazil nuts like they’re going out of fashion). All that stuff is being cut, and I’m also taking fish oils, glucosamine/chondroitin/MSM and cissus to drop the inflammation down, and hopefully that will take care of the worst of it. I’m foam rolling and stretching as well. Which reminds me that it’s time to get off my chair and do some right now.
[quote]kimbakimba wrote:
I also bet much of that 5lbs is water. You probably only ate yourself up a pound or two which will drop when you return to eating more normally.[/quote]
I think so too. I weighed in 8 lbs heavier Yesterday than I did on Xmas eve and this morning I’m only 3 lbs heavier. But holy crap it was a good feast!
Cal, I just saw your progress pix on the SAMA thread. You look great! The Feb. 2010 progress pic will be stunning, I’m betting.
peektures?? i have not seen. i just wanted to tell you to take care of your body. i’m so with you on some of these aches, geez, i don’t know what my excuse is since i’m not even 40 yet. take it easy with weights if you are having sharp pains and such.
and i’m sure several of us (me, for sure!) are feeling fluffy atm. that will subside once we get back on the clean eats! 
chin up, my dear!
All pics I took from May last year are in my profile, so feel free to take a gander. Some older ones also on the SAMA Vixen progress thread.
Debra, phew. I’m hoping at least some of it is bloat. I’ll weigh again after Aunt Flo’s been and let you know the damage (she’s not here yet - she’s waiting for my boyfriend - a guy I’ve only seen three times this year - to turn up because that’s the kind of bitch she is. Sigh.)
Great progress Cal. A bit of a bright light in the crap storm that is always SAMA.
Hey Cal, I just saw your pictures too. You look great! From the way you write about yourself I pictured a strong dumpy housewife-type (your avatar doesn’t really show much)! But you look awesome.
[quote]Cal Jones wrote:
she’s waiting for my boyfriend - a guy I’ve only seen three times this year - to turn up because that’s the kind of bitch she is. Sigh.)[/quote]
Hilarious.
Cal, saw the pics - awesome work. You look amazing - I wish I had you waist!!
Thanks chaps. Yeah Joe - I did contribute to that particular crap storm but well, at least I don’t hide under bridges and scare goats.
And Magzie - definitely not a housewife. Got a job and stuff and spend as little time as possible cleaning. I would recommend anyone with a dust allergy stay the hell away from my flat. I don’t have dust bunnies so much as titanic dust elephants lurking in the places I can’t be arsed to hoover. Still, at least I got rid of the mouse infestation I had a few years ago. Turns out a Dyson can suck up a live mouse (something to bear in mind if you have kids with small pets).
As for the dumpy, I’ve inherited some big bottom genes but, on the plus side, I go in at the waist so even at my heaviest I’m rocking an hourglass (albeit an hourglass with big footballer’s shoulders).
No training today - I am actually sore. My booty and low back are sore from the squats, hypers and KB swings I did yesterday, but I also have some mysterious ab soreness. Took me a while to figure out why, considering I’ve done no ab workout - it’s because I’ve been foam rolling my quads, which is a lot like doing ab wheel rollouts. Heh. Another good reason to roll.
[quote]Cal Jones wrote:
but I also have some mysterious ab soreness. Took me a while to figure out why, considering I’ve done no ab workout - it’s because I’ve been foam rolling my quads, which is a lot like doing ab wheel rollouts. Heh. Another good reason to roll.[/quote]
This happens to me too. Double bonus points!
all this talk of healthy eating has made me hungry. i’ll go get some sushi.
while i’m gone, remember this:
i hear mah song!
damn cal u have the most descriptive language. i love it. swoon
So, didn’t train for two days but I did make a point of foam rolling and doing some mobility stuff at home (good girl). Despite this, I have low back pain, my elbow hurts, my shoulder hurts and my knee is being tricky, so I really wasn’t motivated to go to the gym today.
I did go, but after a loooong warm up of mobility stuff, I didn’t do an awful lot. I bore easily and unless I’m shoving big weights I run out of steam quite quickly (mentally speaking).
Dumbell rows: 20 x 12, 22x 10, 24 x 8, 26 x 8, 28 x 6 (kgs)
Push-ups (narrow): 10, 10, 10, 10, 10
Body rows (on locked Smith machine): 8, 8, 6
Hip thrusts (no weight): 20, 20, 20
Piss-poor really. Elbow hert on the body rows so I switched to a supine grip on the last set. Didn’t help.
Messed about with some oly bar complexes but found it dull and went home (since I had to be back by 11).
I’d be slightly motivated if I liked what I was looking at in the mirror, but currently I look like a walrus in yoga pants.
My current thinking is that I may not be ready for 5/3/1 in Jan - too many problems. I may be better off doing what I did last Jan when I was in a similar situation, which was doing a lot of rowing and scap stuff, no pressing (other than closed chain stuff) and rehab. Couple this with V-Diet to quickly dispose of the winter weight and I may be good to go in Feb.
Alternative is to try 5/3/1 but with lower weights than 90% to get the form nailed down.
Any opinons would be welcome.
and lil miss, have u been using your rolling pin on your forearms, biceps, and triceps? (lots of elbow issues stem from bicep issues.)
and a cute pic for the day.
Yeah, bought the ebook, printed it out, got it here.
The elbow issue has come from squatting. I’ve tried placing my hands wider but it doesn’t feel as safe. I’ll need to figure something out, such as possibly switching to front squats for a bit.
If you set your maxes low enough, the first month or two of 5/3/1 is pretty easy. If it would feel better to you to be starting the program in January, I wouldn’t see a problem with you going light for the first couple. Wendler would approve…the lighter you start, the longer you make progress.
You can still do the prehab/rehab work around 5/3/1.
Am I the only one shocked to find Cal smooth, lovely, strong, and curvy… after hearing her describe herself as a walrus in yoga pants? Cal, you’re killing me. Witty and beautiful!
[quote]arachne12 wrote:
Am I the only one shocked to find Cal smooth, lovely, strong, and curvy… after hearing her describe herself as a walrus in yoga pants? Cal, you’re killing me. Witty and beautiful![/quote]
with dysmorphia like that, im surprised she doesnt fit in better at FA…
ZING!!! u deserve it for the self deprecating behavior, even if its funny.
i asked about the ebook bc u can, and should, plan your re-pre-hab work around your main lifts. and switch out main lifts based on injury/ability, along with setting your maxes low enough. DEFINITELY follow the kimba/wendler suggestion of setting your maxes lower the first few months bc you dont know how it will kick your ass, esp if you add in cardio/gpp/metabolic work in there. try the 3 day a week setup, to allow for more recovery.
and take more naked pics. when u see how good u look and keep looking, how you feel about yourself changes, and usually for the better.
