Thanks, @simo74!
How’s that hip and shoulder?
You and I have very similar ailments. I’ve also got a stuck bent elbow, lol. Oh and a knee that loves to get all itis on me when I’m doing too much.
Going to be a real bitch when we’re 70.
Here’s to hoping for stem cell treatment magic!
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I remember growing up hearing about the terrors of knee replacements. Not that they’re not still excruciating, but I was the manager of a physical therapy clinic for a couple years, and about 75% of our patients were pre/post knee replacement. What used to be a year is now 2-3 months of discomfort before almost total relief. This is of course dependent on the patient not being obese, and actually following the prescribed rehabilitation exercise routine. As a sufferer of long-term chronic back pain, I have repeatedly refused spinal fusion, and my stint at the PT clinic only reinforced this aversion - I swear it was like 50% success, and the people who didn’t gain relief from it were stuck that way, forever. Now, full spinal disc replacement is in it’s infancy, and though it’s quite rare and expensive at the moment, I imagine in 10-15 years it could be as common and low-risk as knee replacement surgery. I really hope stem cells are destigmatized sooner than that.
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The hip is doing better. I’m only dealing with several tight muscles now. The shoulder is another story. I’m beginning to think it’s biceps tendinitis after experiencing the same pain during curls today.
I’m sure I’ll have some awesome arthritis someday. I’ve had knee, hip, and shoulder surgery and worked through a broken ankle.
Someone around here was talking about the stem cell stuff and it cost them more than my annual salary. I’m screwed!
I have a co-worker who is about to return from a partial knee replacement. In certain his was caused by obesity. He was 360+ last year and lost 50 lbs for the surgery. He never even worked out. I hope I can convince him to keep going. He’s still 300+ lbs.
I’ve heard from my chiropractors that back surgery usually turns into a series of surgeries and no relief. It’s more like discussing which back surgery you’re on instead of the back surgery.
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I’ve been living with a ruptured disc for about 5 years now. I was contemplating the surgery, but I’ve heard excising the tissue just weakens the support and makes it easier to damage later on. The new replacement discs sound cool, but it will take a long time before they’re good enough to last. Oh well.
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Re chronically tight muscles: Depends if it is a flexibility issue, if it’s a mild injury, or if it’s some scar tissue.
If it’s flexibility, the only thing I’ve had success with is slow, full range of motion movement through the offending tight muscle and movement.
If injury, rest - but also get some gentle movement - bike, row, brisk walk, etc. blood flow is key.
I’d scar tissue - foam role, self massage, Cross friction massage, Grastom technique (I’ve had really good success with this - hurts like hell but really seems to work)
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7.29.18
I forgot to weigh myself like normal this morning. I haven’t been sleeping well lately and it slipped my foggy mind. I did hop on the scale after getting dressed and I was 242 and change. I’m guessing I was 240ish today. I expected that or more because we had pizza last night. I always hold a lot of salt after that.
Rest day today. My legs don’t feel too bad so I should be ready for tomorrow’s session of 5 x 8.
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Today’s reminder from work: plan your funeral so your loved ones don’t have to do it while they’re grieving (assuming you’ll be missed).
I was on the scene of two dead people today. The first was 28 years old and looked pretty fit. There’s a chance he did too much cocaine last night and it slowly killed him. He passed out and snored/struggled to breathe all night and finally stopped breathing mid-morning. Blood came out of his mouth when they did CPR.
Don’t do drugs!
The second dead body was from health complications. She was in her 70s so it wasn’t quite as devastating. It still sucks being the only unaffected and unemotional person on the scene though. Fuck, that’s awkward.
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In for this. I’d like to be around 230 in 6 months… I think allowing myself to eat that much will make it much easier to squat and deadlift 500lbs in early 2019 (fingers crossed)
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That sucks man. She’s a badass for not quitting though. I don’t know if I walk 26 miles in a week, and I know for a fact I couldn’t do it in a day unless my life depended on it. Props to her for real
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Did my marathon some 25 years ago, and 3/4 Ironman.
You wife really deserves full credit, Marathon are so tough and I can’t even imagine how hard ultra running must be.
My marathon was so hard and I’ve trained hard for it, went out for sub 3 hours. In training I did that pace many times. But come raceday I did 3 hours 30 minutes on the dot. I was so disappointed, wanted to bail from around halfway point.
So her keep going despite things coming in the way.
She have my full respect Big J… You just support her big time 
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It turns out that the dead 28 year old that I saw yesterday is a person of interest in a homicide from Friday.
Karma.
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Great, another shiny object.
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I will refuse to read it… No more …
Damn I did it…
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It’s ok! I read it, wrote it out in a spreadsheet, and decided it’s not for. I don’t like pushing to failure every day and I won’t be able to do 6 workouts a week.
SGSS is perfect for me. It’s the right intensity and frequency.
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Good stuff man. Listening to your body is so much more important than I used to understand.
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Whether you want to admit it or not, your effort is fueled by your mind (even your subconscious). How often do you force a workout that you don’t want to do because you feel like crap or you just flat out don’t like it? How often does that workout match your expectations (i.e. You thought it’d suck and it did)?
If I do Best Damn then I’ll get less than stellar results because I’ll convince myself I’ve reached failure when I actually haven’t. I just don’t like the pain of mTor sets. I stop the stretching too soon.
I also don’t do well with RPE training. If I’m doing squats then it’s pretty easy to tell myself that I’m at 9 RPE because it’s not enjoyable to go to failure past 3 reps. I might have 3 reps left in the tank but if a rep feels like it’s near max then I’ll probably rack the weight.
On the other hand, if I’m doing scripted sets of 5 with a weight I know I can handle for 7-8 reps then I’ll get those 5 reps even if rep 3 feels like a 9 RPE.
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7.30.18
Woke at 239.8 lbs and actually didn’t look like a fat slob!
Today was an odd day and I ended up sitting around all day waiting to go to the gym. My son and I finally made it at 3:45 pm. Not my best time of day.
The workout kind of sucked and I took long rests but I did it. I forgot how much I hate these 5 x 8 leg days. Luckily I only have two more before I move on to 5 x 5.
2 LAP DYNAMIC WARM UP
2 LAPS RUNNING THE STRAIGHTAWAY, WALKING THE CURVE
RFESS
85 x 8 ea x 5 sets
I tried to squat 85 lbs and it hurt just as bad as before surgery. Fuck.
DEADLIFT
225 x 5
F me, this hurt my hip.
TRAP BAR DEADS (HIGH HANDLES)
315 x 8 x 5 sets
RDLs
185 x 8 x 5 sets
DB FARMERS Walk (1 LAP)
50s x 225m
50s x 75m
I made it way farther on the first bout today.
4 WAY HIP MACHINE
Abduction 130 x 10 x 2
Adduction 130 x 15 x 2
Flexion 130 x 10 x 2
Extension 220 x 15 x 2
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Damn, sorry man. Same spot and feeling huh?
What’s your plan?
I think I’m going to call my surgeon tomorrow. I don’t necessarily want to go for an office visit; I want to know if I should have another MRI.
I’ve had three surgeries and they’ve so been the same. They send you to the orthopedic specialist and then they tell you they can’t tell for certain what the problem is so they order an MRI. I’m hoping to skip that pointless office visit that cost me $50.
I’m also going to switch back to my chiropractor who does the manual tissue work. The needling isn’t having the desired effect.
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