Man, I fell off the first page! Nooooooooooooooooooooo.
Anyway. I did work out yesterday. I have been questioning my orientation post surgery and I finished my last scheduled workout so I have just been playing around. I decided to do an arm day!
Close Grip Bench 120#x10 140#x8 160#x6 160#x5
Skull Crushers 50#x10 s x 55#x12
French Curls 60# 10, 7, 8
Cable Pushdowns 60#x16
DB Rotating Curls 50# 10, 12, 6 Twinged bicep a bit, so stopped there.
My step-son usually goes to the Animethon but apparently not this year. The extent of anime for me was Akira. I tried other stuff but meh, too hard to follow. Hope your recovery goes well and quickly.
Seated 355mLs are good, but you have to crush the can when it’s empty for the grip aspect.
[quote]Crushed_Idiot wrote:
My step-son usually goes to the Animethon but apparently not this year. The extent of anime for me was Akira. I tried other stuff but meh, too hard to follow. Hope your recovery goes well and quickly.
Seated 355mLs are good, but you have to crush the can when it’s empty for the grip aspect.[/quote]
Animethon it is. You in/near Edmonton? My kids do the whole costume thing and have for a few years. I follow less than they do. Akira is more my vintage too, and I remember Battle of the Planets from when I was a kid. Apparently the Japanese version was way less appropriate. I was a comic book nerd, and the karate came with a lot of nipponophilia, but didn’t mix the two too much.
We were doing bottles for the 355mL curls so I wasn’t feeling manly enough to crush them…I just stuck with typing for my grip exercise.
Had my last appointment before surgery today. Told the Dr. how great nitro was and asked why couldn’t I just take it before I work out so I wouldn’t need to get angina. She said it is just a rescue medication, so I shouldn’t. She spoils my fun sometimes. I have a doctors order to stop cardio for the week too. How often does one pull that off? I think I definitely win.
I was told I may need to be in a cardiac rehab program, which sounds dangerously not hardcore.
I get my marc pro today so I’m going to start shocking myself for fun and see if this device will do as it is supposed to do which is speed muscle recovery enhancing the body’s natural capabilities. The process is supposed to increase capillaries in the muscles stimulated and cause macrophages to engage at a higher level resulting in greatly improved muscle health. I suppose a good analogy would be steroids affects on the muscles but with no adverse affects, dirty urine, or expensive costs. I’ll be reporting on my results.
I love mine. It just makes the muscle pump away, and seems to clear up the damage overnight. I wish it did tendons…it might actually help, as it should stimulate blood flow there as well, but with a muscle it feels better after one or two sessions, the adjoining tendon certainly doesn’t. I like to embrace the pain on it and turn it up as high as I can stand, and it does amazing things for recovery.
One warning, and I don’t know if it is BS or not, but I know a guy that says he has become dependent on it for his back. He theorizes he should have used it while injured then stopped, but he kept using it as it felt so good after, sort of like a massage, and would set it to low and run it all night. I suspect his back just has more wrong with it than the muscle but I figured I should pass it on in case there is some truth to it. I never run mine on low and an hour is as long as I work one muscle.
Yup, I’m in Edmonchuck in Aldergrove. You need to tell our doctor the nitro gives you more bang for your buck in the gym.
[quote]Crushed_Idiot wrote:
Yup, I’m in Edmonchuck in Aldergrove. You need to tell our doctor the nitro gives you more bang for your buck in the gym.[/quote]
I’m thinking of a ventollin, nitro stack, then viagra for the after party…the old man PED’s 
That’s out in the west end, Whitemud and Hendsdayish? I’m out east of town on a farm near Ardrossan. It was great when I was throwing as I just set up in the pasture. I still have the two poplar trees for my Weight for Height bar set up. They have grown, so I want to see if they have raised the bar before I take a kick at it again.
Damn, both you guys have Marc Pros? Time to start breaking my piggy bank!
You tried it, now you know you want it.
A PT working on my shoulder back in my throwing days got me hooked, but the units were big and $1000’s back then.
Just don’t hook it on to anything inappropriate. It only makes muscles work better. 
I was just reading through the site. I never thought of using it as a localized warm up. I wonder how well that would work?
OK, I worked out for a change.
I think the main reason as my doctor recommended against anything strenuous before Friday as my heart in good shape but having enough trouble under load that she is concerned…
Therefore I decided to play with my snatch.
2 sets of 70# overhead squat x 3 , then 2 sets of overhead squat + 3 behind the neck presses
So far so good.
Power Snatch 1x120#, 1x140#, 1x170#
Then…
My biceps is still sore from Sunday, but I forgot/didn’t notice. I think I may have been repressing the fact that I was doing curls. I wasn’t in my rack while doing the curls, just near it, but you know, it was right there. Anyways, I can be oblivious. Sometimes I even chatter on senselessly and get on peoples nerves when they just want me to get to the point…
On the power shrug portion of 170# I suddenly remembered my left biceps was sore.
So I decided to ignore it.
Snatch 1x190#. That’s right, I actually got under the bar. I just needed more weight. See, more weight fixes squat, and snatches.
Then I decided to ice my left biceps. I’ll be hooking the electrodes up after that. There will also be some ibuprofen involved as well. No alcohol in the house unfortunately, as whiskey would be REALLY cool right now.
So the moral of this story is:
Don’t do curls.
Ha! Since I have been hurt I have grown to like me some pinwheel curls, too much curling leaves my distal tendon barking but with pinwheels I dont have that problem, its alk about them guns brah
Ooo snatches and whiskey go great together, well not actually together but…
Matty: I hadn’t curled in a couple of months, and starting without warm up weights was asking for trouble. I started up and twinged myself first time, so I have to blame the curls, not my crappy form or lack of warm up… I imagine this cardiac rehab program will be more curl friendly than squat friendly, so I’ll save them for next week…
minimal: That sounds like back in university… oh wait, you meant something else. (Sorry, had to be done.) (No seriously, sorry)
Honestly, I love my electricity. I can peak contraction without pain again already after a couple of treatments alternated with ice last night. I know if I had done that right after I hurt the damn thing, I would have been fine last night. Trying to decide what to do tonight. If I ever get home from work.
We have some of the same issues regarding health and mental problems associated with the weights meaning you now have to train to be healthy and strong not just strong.
I’ve found the Rower to be a Godsend in helping get back into better cardio-conditioning along with my new lifting protocols my health is looking on the upswing for once.
What exactly is the surgery being performed?
Trust me on this: Take 2 weeks off from any heavy exertion. It is not long in the grand scheme of things and just work on fine tuning your diet in the meantime and shock yourself a lot!
Best wishes,
Rick
Yup, out on the west end. Very easy to get most places. Ah, to have an acreage. One word - outbuildings. A garage, a shop, and a gym. Get some strongman or highland gear. Awesome.
[quote]FISCHER613 wrote:
We have some of the same issues regarding health and mental problems associated with the weights meaning you now have to train to be healthy and strong not just strong.
I’ve found the Rower to be a Godsend in helping get back into better cardio-conditioning along with my new lifting protocols my health is looking on the upswing for once.
What exactly is the surgery being performed?
Trust me on this: Take 2 weeks off from any heavy exertion. It is not long in the grand scheme of things and just work on fine tuning your diet in the meantime and shock yourself a lot!
Best wishes,
Rick[/quote]
Thanks!
Mine is supposed to be minor, they are going in for an angiogram and then they will do angioplasty/stents as required.
My doctor tells me it is pretty much guaranteed to be a partial blockage. “Early Onset Ischemic Heart Disease” to use her words. There is only minor dilation of the left ventricle and no sign of other damage in the echocardiogram, but my heart goes into stressed state (220-240 bpm and a funky ECG) after about 5 minutes on the incline at a fast walk. I was pushing at that level for about 45 minutes before I started to gets spots in front of my eyes, and my original doctor basically said I was just too muscular to have good cardio. I’m REEALLy not, I should email him a picture of you, he’d probably faint.
I’ll know for sure on Friday, and take pictures of my catheter hole for everyone.
It is annoying to take a break right now, as I’m just getting into the groove on my lifting. I had dumped it for years and been pulling my 10+ hours of cardio a week to avoid heart disease and then I get it at 40. I’m a little bitter. I imagine all the steak I could have eaten in the last 10 years! It’s been fish and oatmeal, but to no avail.
How are you doing? Last you updated us they wanted to do some valve work. You are so busy helping everyone else I hope you are looking after yourself.
[quote]Crushed_Idiot wrote:
Yup, out on the west end. Very easy to get most places. Ah, to have an acreage. One word - outbuildings. A garage, a shop, and a gym. Get some strongman or highland gear. Awesome.[/quote]
I have my highland gear all dug out now, and I have a selection of stones and broken old farm equipment for strongman work. Back when I was throwing (stopped in 2003) I didn’t actually do weights more than once a week in season, I threw and did strongman work. It was nice to be outside. I had an old car hood I converted into a sled and I’d pull the wife and kids around with my harness for cardio in the winter. Having been off 10 years I noticed they turned up gravity since I last played and I am sad.
I want to cut a new caber this winter. The black poplars make nice cabers (as long as you get them in the winter to avoid the sap), the white ones are usually straighter but the wood is light and they rot in a couple years. Or I could break down and head up to the UFA and get a treated light pole. That works best, but it is too straight, no character.
Edit:
Added an avatar. Old, old picture, but I don’t have anything else sporty to show and no one wants to see my hairy ass in any sort of flex pose.
Avi is awesome
Love the avatar.
Good luck with the blockage. I’ve had palpitations myself (fortunately benign), I know weird heart rate is frightening.
Avi is certainly bad ass. You’ll be defying gravity with that old gear no problem.
Never tossed a caber but it sounds like they should have character.