What I’d really like to see is a video of you doing the spin bike one legged.
I’m glad things are going fairly well.
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
The big incision is where the joint was fused with a screw and plate. The second toe is fused and pinned.[/quote]
Holy shit that’s gnarly. I can’t believe you were doing pistols. You are amazing.
Great to hear your surgery went well.
Read something interesting in a nutrition thread:
"fisch wrote:
Modok, is there anything recommended nutritional or supplement wise to do leading up to or after surgery? I always have read to stop fish oil leading up to surgery due to blood thinning but other then that I have not read or heard anything helpful to speed up recovery. Im likely going to need to have my hip bone shaved down, a torn labrum repaired or partially removed and I am a naturally slow healer. Would Glucosamine/Chondroditin/MSM be useful in this case?
Which brings me to my next question. I always seem to heal slowly from cuts, bruises and any other injury I can remember, is this just a genetic thing or is there a nutritional deficiency?
You are correct in stopping high dose fish oils before surgery. You can continue to take a small amount (1 cap) up until the surgery as the anti-coagulant properties only kick in at the higher (>1 g EPA) doses.
When recovering from a trauma, your protein requirements will increase dramatically. Scopic surgeries are not tremendously traumatic, but they are trauma nonetheless. I would increase my protein in the first few weeks after surgery up to 2 g/lb, immediately start back on the fish oil at about post op day 3, supplement with the glucosamine, and add in 5 g of vitamin c for the first 4 weeks post op. Vitamin C is very important in traumatic healing. Also, I would eat as many old fashioned bone broth soups as I could. They contain a ton of natural glycoaminoglycans to help you repair the connective tissue they will be cutting on. I’d make a big pot on sunday night and have a bowl all week.
The slow healing could be a myriad of different things. I’d have to look at your diet and also rule out any borderline hyperglycemia, etc to really have a chance of figuring it out."
(Apparently high dose Vit. C and protein was a nutritional protocol initially developed for patients in burn units.)
Sounds like it could be helpful, and definitely something I’d try if I ever had surgery (crosses fingers and toes to ward off evil spirits).
[quote]arachne12 wrote:
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
The big incision is where the joint was fused with a screw and plate. The second toe is fused and pinned.[/quote]
Holy shit that’s gnarly. I can’t believe you were doing pistols. You are amazing.
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Not that amazing. I was only doing this:
A video of the spin bike may have been more amazing, actually.
And I have been eating soup and meat, Punnyguy! Gotta add the vitamin C.
Nice!
I did think immediately when you weren’t holding on to anything, “well how’s she going to get up again?”
Great stuff.
Bone broths come to mind in regards to having a superfood that helps in healing. Details here: http://bit.ly/u8zEPI
Snap
you are amazing.
very inspiring that you are findind ways to train-
wishing a happy new year and a speedy recovery
ps. I will admit to doing allot of things
while in a similar air cast/boot thingy for my right ankle.
( ok maybe stupid things)
ring work
rowing machine
tons of pullups dips etc
and we found a way to do hang cleans and snatches too
[quote]kmcnyc wrote:
Snap
you are amazing.
very inspiring that you are findind ways to train-
wishing a happy new year and a speedy recovery
ring work
rowing machine
tons of pullups dips etc
and we found a way to do hang cleans and snatches too
[/quote]
This^^^X2
You make me feel bad about myself for missing the gym yesterday becuase I was too tired, I’m a slacker compared to you!
You are amazing with all the single leg stuff while you rehab!!
Happy New Year, Snap!
This is interesting. New standards.
http://www.rawpowerlifting.com/classifications.htm
There’s a thread about it in the PLing forum (if you’re brave enough to venture outside). Note that the standards assume raw lifting (no knee wraps), below parallel squats, paused benches, and drug-free.
If I take my best numbers and look at the 114 lb. class, I fall between class 1 and class 2 for squat (best is 155 lb), am a class 3 bencher (what a surprise), and fall between class 1 and class 2 for DL (best is 225).
Where do you fall?
I am seriously considering competing in the 105s when I make my grand comeback. I’m sitting at 108-109 right now.
Class I on Squat, Deadlift, and Total. Class III on bench.
Interesting.
I was looking at that as well. I can only estimate since I haven’t competed raw since my first meet. I would guess, based on training I am master class on squat, deadlift and total but class three on bench.
It is interesting but I think the numbers are too low. I read how he arrived at them and it seems like a fair way to do it but they still feel too low. I can’t speak for the men’s but the women’s seem low.
Snap, you are kick ass on the one legged training. Do some pull ups. The cast makes them weighted.
My .02: if you can’t find fault with the methodology used, then it is what it is.
Don’t forget the Law of Diminishing Returns (or something like that) -the higher up the ranks one goes, the tougher it gets to improve because it is not a linear progression, it can get exponentially tougher to make any type of progression. I’m sure I’m not saying anything you gals (and guys) don’t already know.
me also, could only estimate raw squat nowadays, I think they are too low also, women’s numbers anyway.
Pictures weren’t too bad Snap. Glad the pain is under control.
Class 2 all the way around.
[quote]lil power wrote:
me also, could only estimate raw squat nowadays, I think they are too low also, women’s numbers anyway.
Pictures weren’t too bad Snap. Glad the pain is under control. [/quote]
Since they took them from actual results they shouldn’t be too low despite our gut “too low feeliness”.
However, the women’s standards in Canada are something that rankles with me. The is a discussion that has come up within our executive provincially and we are looking at making a national proposal. The standards that women here are held to are far too low. If you have a pulse, you can pretty much qualify for nationals. Now that we have Classic/raw, those standards are even lower.
For instance, I qualified for provincials/nationals at my very first ever meet lifting raw/knee wraps and I met the equipped standard. I’ve said on more than one occasion that we won’t be taken seriously until we are held to the same standards as the men.
How do you find the comparison in your feds?
I’ll get off my soap box now… but slowly, I whacked my knee last night.
Snap,
This is the perfect opportunity to not train, sit on the couch and play XBox (I am partial to anything violent and inappropriate to share with my children), seriously somebody needs to help you understand that post-surgery is a time for doubt and self-pity. When I had my ankle fused I stayed on the couch until the cast and then boot came off, I don’t understand you. Good luck and keep making normal folk like myself look lazy and sad.
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
However, the women’s standards in Canada are something that rankles with me. The is a discussion that has come up within our executive provincially and we are looking at making a national proposal. The standards that women here are held to are far too low. If you have a pulse, you can pretty much qualify for nationals. Now that we have Classic/raw, those standards are even lower.
For instance, I qualified for provincials/nationals at my very first ever meet lifting raw/knee wraps and I met the equipped standard. I’ve said on more than one occasion that we won’t be taken seriously until we are held to the same standards as the men.
How do you find the comparison in your feds?
I’ll get off my soap box now… but slowly, I whacked my knee last night.[/quote]
well, my fed I thought PRO totals were low for women, I trained for 8 weeks in single ply gear and my first meet got a PRO womens’ total - which is really for multiply!
Well, eventually about 6 months later they revised the women pro totals and raised them about 100 lbs, so now I have something to shoot for.
SPF Raw Elite Women’s totals
97 114 123 132 148 165 181 198
543 623 665 703 773 853 895 960
Newst Raw Feds classification - Elite
535 611 665 703 756 813 839 859
- Raw has a 105# division which SPF does not have and they don’t break it down each individual lift.
So it’s really close in most cases and SPF does allow kneewraps in their Raw division and a monolift.
Looks like I’m class III eyeing class II on the deadlift and bench. Squat’s lagging pretty bad. Thanks for posting this link!