I think my pelvis shifted on Tuesday and I really beat it up yesterday playing basketball. I hate to admit it, but for the first time ever, I felt pain in my hip between games.
My psoas muscle has felt like it’s been contracted all day. It has been a bit unpleasant. I snagged a 7 am appointment with my chiro tomorrow so hopefully I can get fixed.
My knee is starting to feel like it’s giving out a bit on the stairs. I think my hip is slacking off and forcing my knee extensors to do the bulk of the work. I’m hoping it’s just a symptom of everything being so out of alignment. Time will tell.
MRI is Tuesday (22nd) and follow up appointment with the Doc the next Tuesday (29th)!
I was supposed to do a bench workout tonight but I’m working a basketball game at 7:15. I probably had time to squeeze it in but I didn’t feel like rushing it. It’s probably a good day to rest since I’m out of alignment and in pain anyway. I’m in maintenance mode so I’m not worried about it.
Woke at 235.8 lbs. I didn’t eat very well yesterday. I had a double protein shake for breakfast, a pulled pork sandwich and fries for lunch, and scrambled eggs with ground venison for dinner. I woke up looking bloated—probably from salt. I was thirsty last night at my part time but I didn’t have access to much water.
I am supposed to work out today but I’m showing my vacant rental property at 6pm. That’s not the best time for me but I can’t really refuse an opportunity to get this thing rented. I can go train afterwards but then I won’t get home until 8ish and that’ll pretty much be the end of the night. I won’t really see my wife or kids (again). I’m leaning towards skipping the workout. As stated yesterday, I’m not making any progress right now. I’m just trying to maintain muscle mass and I’m sure a couple of missed workouts won’t change much.
I forgot to weigh myself before putting on my layers of clothing this morning. I drank five beers last night and my stomach isn’t happy about it.
The high temp today is 23 and will feel like 9 deg F. The wind is at 30 mph now and will slowly trail off but it’s not going to be a nice day. It snowed a bit but it’s kind of frozen. My sidewalk feels like there’s ice on top of the snow.
No workout last night. I feel much better after my emergency chiropractor visit yesterday morning.
Well, it was ridiculously cold today at work. Church was canceled so I didn’t have my typical busy evening. I had time to go work out, but I didn’t. I’m sitting by the fire now and being lazy. I’m quite content.
I think I’ll restart week 1 of my 5/3/1 template tomorrow but I’ll start with the workouts that I missed this week. I’ve been comparing this Boydbuild the Upper/Athlete the Lower and The Krypteia templates. I like the assistance supersets of Krypteia better than the layout of BB/Athlete. I’ll probably use those with the main work and FSL of BB/Athlete to speed things up and keep working on conditioning. I definitely won’t be doing goblet squats and SLDL’s but I should be able to do some SL RDL’s and lunges/split squats.
AIR RUNNER FARTLEK
run /walk
30/30, 50/20, 10, rest 2:10 x 3 9:50, 102 cals, 0.92 mi (ties best performance)
I feel like running faster results in less distance covered overall because I’m barely moving during the recovery. I started out slower today. I was under 11mph and I’ve been able to stay between 11.0-11.5 on the first run of the set. I guess the next step is to combine the faster running with faster walking.
BENCH (5s PRO)
145 x 5
165 x 5
190 x 5
DB BENCH (FSL)
60s x 10 x 5 sets
SPLIT SQUAT
BW x 10 ea x 4 sets
DB RDLs
60s x 10 x 4 sets
I ran this like Krypteia and alternated sets of split squats and DB RDLs with the bench work. It took me about 21 minutes and I stopped the timer at 24 minutes. I intended to do face pulls, abs, and triceps but I was kind of spent.
@littlesleeper, if you were weaker then your workouts would go faster! I only needed one warm up set to reach my working weights lol!
Another part of today was Thad the Kid Zone wasn’t open. It opens at noon on Sundays. I took my daughter so she could play and get out of the house. She ended up having to sit right next to me and watch. I finally let her play on my phone.
I felt bad for her so I took her to lunch and had some daddy - daughter time. I had a huge omelet with every ingredient in it and hash browns. I also had pancakes for breakfast today. I’m sure I’ve over eaten today but it was worth it.
This is important J, good stuff.
Krypteia style 531 looks good, and if your beat up body can tolerate it then you’re good.
The variation lifts, looks good as well. I like how you do your FSL work with DB.
And 21 minutes was the time I spent with the weights. I was plenty warm from running. I just had eight sets of bench with four sets of the assistance mixed in just like you’re doing. Light weights and bodyweight exercises help.
I like the supersets in Krypteia so I borrowed that aspect. The DBs are my own additions. My shoulder hurts a bit on the early reps of bench and OHP. The DBs let me find a pain free path and ROM. They also fit my bodybuilding desires better.
I almost ran the whole program with DBs but it’s kind of a pain going back and forth to the rack after each set.
Mort, I think I’d quit messing with 5/3/1 by the time you started a log and started participating in mine. If you saw my first affair with 5/3/1 then you’d know that I modify every single template I run . Jim would kill me but I don’t go around saying I’m running this program or that program so I won’t make it look bad if I don’t get results.
Tomorrow is 5s PRO with Hang SGHP in place of deadlifts followed by 10 x 5 FSL (10 sets of 5). That’ll get me 6-7 sets of DB Incline and Incline DB Row!
Today was supposed to be my high pull day but my hip/SI joint was out of whack this morning. My knee is hurting worse and worse on the stairs as it tries to bear more weight. I started to ask my wife her opinion on the matter and couldn’t even get the question out. She cut me off and told me I need to completely rest my hip for a couple weeks. She thinks my body will heal itself.
Rest means doing absolutely nothing with my lower body. No bike, elliptical, rower, etc. No bodyweight exercises. I don’t think it’ll make a difference but I can’t get any worse.
It looks like I’ll be enjoying upper body only sessions for a couple weeks - and no conditioning! I am disappointed about missing basketball though.
The chiropractor wasn’t convinced that rest would fix all of my problems. He said I’ll probably feel better until I start running and lifting again. He’s a triathlete with a long history of injuries so he has good experiences to share.
Woke at 236.4 lbs. That’s what happens when I don’t track my food for two days.
@lava2007, my body seems to feed up with me and my training choices. I wouldn’t call myself one of those “I’ll keep going until I can’t go anymore” kind of people, but my body is definitely shutting me down in a hurry. I thought I was doing a decent job of avoiding things that hurt but I’ve learned that there are some things that just hurt later.
I’m taking my wife up on her challenge to do nothing with my lower body for a couple weeks. I’m getting another MRI with contrast this morning and my follow up is next Tuesday.
I think it’s been awhile since I’ve mentioned my rental house so here’s an update. I think I found a tenant. Actually, it might be a lot of tenants. A woman approached me about renting it so she can use it as a group home for girls ages 13-17. She is self employed and has a contract with the state to take on kids who are in state’s custody.
My wife has some of those girls as students and I see some of them in my line of work. It’s kind of a risk in terms of my property getting damaged but we want to do it. It might be a long term deal and it can be our way of providing something good for these girls.
Our foster system sucks. People take the kids just for the money and don’t use it on the kids. But people like my wife and I have worked hard for our home and don’t want to bring in so the chaos that can come with a foster kid. Basically I know there’s a problem but I’m not willing to step in to help. I just can’t bring that choas into my house with my kids. This group home might be a middle ground for us to have an impact on these kids.
I won’t be involved other than owning the house but we’re willing to help furnish the place and gather things like clothes and toiletries for the girls that come through there.
We’re hoping to provide a nice, safe place for these kids. The lady who will be in charge has the goal of teaching them how to value their home and take care of it. It’s simple but you wouldn’t believe how many people don’t do that. They tear their home up and live in filth.
Um. I may be talking out my ass here, but be very careful mixing charity and business (in my opinion). I let some hard on their luck addicts (they had kids) use some of my storage units while our church helped them find a new home.
It went about as well as you would expect. The agreement was 3 months free and I’d help them haul their stuff to wherever they moved to. They had the unit for 8 months, never paid for the 5 and took their stuff out late at night. Then I had to throw away truckloads of junk they left.
I prefer to make money in business like a hard nosed mercenary and then give to charities I believe in completely seperate.
Ask yourself this. You have a $125k note on the house right? You owe a mortgage payment every month. Are you and the wife willing to evict that lady and her group home for girls if she loses her government charter and can’t pay (or if she’s bad with money and doesn’t pay)? Can you treat her like a normal tenant, or would there be guilt there?
The kids have to be in state’s custody to be in a group home. If she lost her contract then the girls would be placed somewhere else.
The only charity we’ll be providing is with donations. And most of that won’t be our stuff or money. My wife already has a bunch of clothes stored at her school. People know her students don’t have the best life so they already donate.
There’s also a Christian organization that sells/donates furniture.
Rent is still the same price and due on the 1st. I’ll be running my tenant screening on the lady facilitating everything and base the approval on her history and finances. If I need to prove income beyond what she makes then I’ll consider her contract with the state.
If she’s getting money for these kids and doesn’t pay rent then that means the money isn’t going towards the kids. That’s a state or even federal level crime. They came in and shut down a lady last year and inducted her.
It’s as good of a tenant as any. I can’t afford to let the feels get in the way of the mortgage so I’d be fine serving an eviction.
I figure it can’t get worse than a tenant turning into a meth addict and ripping out all of the wiring and tearing down the walls to find the FBI bugs!
Of course the wife is on board! I was skeptical but I try to be open minded so I took it to her. She jumped all over it and thinks we need to do this. She’s convinced me that this is the best thing we can do with the house.
Time will tell, but if this blows up in my face then at least we were trying to be helpful to the world.
I meant is she on board with evicting the nice saintly-seeming woman, if it comes to that. She might have a harder time evicting a do gooder than you would.
. Jim would kill me but I don’t go around saying I’m running this program or that program so I won’t make it look bad if I don’t get results.