Goal achieved. I kid, of course.
@cdmac24 with the big time insights here, no more forum hiatuses for a while for you my man.
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this made me laugh. I loved the idea of CrossFit and was really looking forward to the HIIB stuff @Frank_C was going to have us doing during this challenge. Maybe 2020 will be more favorable for us to get back on that type of training but I’ve almost resigned myself to not do any overhead with bar or DBs anymore - bands and machines I think for those movements so I’ll have to pay J to make me a training plan that incorporates that stuff.
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Yeah, I’m preaching to myself as much as anything. I see a lot of younger me in J.
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That was a good one!
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9.27.19
Second rest day in a row today. No reason to get up super early to train when I can just do it tomorrow on my own time. I’ve also fallen asleep in my recliner like a classic dad after work on the two days that I trained early this week.
The wife and I are going to find a movie to watch at home and drink some beers tonight. @cdmac24, I’m waiting til she has a couple to have “the talk” with her.
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This is the absolute best.
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At least an hour, from what I’ve read. The risk of rupturing a disc is exponentially higher when first getting up.
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When my schedule allows, I get the best training sessions 15-30 minutes after waking up. Maybe I’m young enough to not have the stiffness and typical aches and pains some older lifters have accumulated.
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Oh wow, I can’t even imagine having the energy for a workout right after waking up. Even as a teenager, I had more energy for workouts at night than in the morning. I think you’re better situated, because you can get in a good workout early before school or work instead of trying to drag yourself to the gym at the end of the day 
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Hey J, just read through the last couple of days, lots of quality stuff going on as always.
I think @cdmac24’s talk about pursuing to many goals were spot on, so were his talk about competing against the former best lifts.
I’m always pursuing to many goals and trying to be better than last year.
Right now, just as when I did SGSS, I’m sticking to a linear progression style, hitting numbers and reps each and every workout I can manage without struggling. I’m sleeping better, I’m better looking, I’m feeling better HOWEVER I still have that little itch to try to lift something stupidly heavy or trying to beat a previous repPR with the weight I’m using. I’m not doing it, but my brain f*cks around with me saying do it, come on man, do it.
Don’t know where I’m headed here man, it just sounds like you’re trying too hard ending up to close to re injuring yourself, not letting your body to heal up.
You could make a blog about how to rehab after injury. Use your own journey look back and see what was good and what was not. Did I do something I shouldn’t have and that someone else could learn from, and what worked out very good.
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9.28.19
3 LAP DYNAMIC WARM UP
GIANT SET (3 ROUNDS)
Squat 225 x 5
Jumps x 3
Lateral MB Throw 12 x 5 ea
The MB throws weren’t as good as I’d hoped. They weren’t much of a challenge.
GIANT SET (5 ROUNDS)
Cable Fly 60 x 10
Cable Rev Fly 20 x 10, 30 lbs on last two sets
Cable Row 70 x 10, 15 on first set. 100 lbs on last set. Weight is per arm.
SA OH CABLE EXTENSION
40 x 10
50 x 10
50 x 8F/8T/8B
Overall, this workout sucked. My warm up and PT took a half hour. Squats feel horrible. I’ve never moved so slow in my life. I’ll switch to sets of 3 after the next workout (5x5). I don’t think I can do 5s with 235.
The search for exercises I can do with both arms continues. Today was pretty good but the intensity sucked. Single arm reverse fly’s feel way better than double arm. 20 lbs was too light, but 30 lbs hurt until in switched to single arm.
I guess I made progress today - not via a good workout but by figuring out what I can do and how hard I need to push it. Rows on the dual cable columns suck. Seated rows will be done next time.
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What’s the deal with the shoulder? I thought you’d be a little further along in the process. No?
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Yeah, me too. I still have what I call impingement pain when I lift my arm past 90*. I still have a lot of tightness right where the tendon was anchored, too.
Not sure what’s going on, but I go to the doctor Thursday. I’m also looking into some stuff that might help me heal. HGH and IGF-1 were highly considered, but the whole legality thing killed that. There are some legal things that increase natural HGH production that I’m considering. I’ve lost my patience with this. If something can help then I want it.
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Have you considered it might not be ‘bad’ pain? Tightness can often be misconceived as pain. This is hard to deal with. You have to just keep plugging away, reps and lots of reps until you basically shift the paradigm of normality.
You may be healthy but are just still in the pain cycle. That takes some time, but reps and lots of reps helps. You have to train through the pain some though. You know this. Sounds like you have been doing some of this though.
I think you’re fine, just need to keep plugging away and getting further from the injury time wise.
I still have the aching pain when I push it. I’m icing twice a day because it helps eliminate the pain.
My PT seems a little concerned/surprised that I still have pain when I put a shirt on. I’m just basing everything off her and a rehab protocol in found online.
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Ouch, that one hurt.
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This is how I feel. The later in the day it gets the more likely I am to skip it.
I don’t know how similar our situations are but I had surgery on a torn labrum last spring, and I regret it. It was a waste of money. I followed my PT to a T (I don’t know if you say “T” or “tee” or what) and nothing feels better. I don’t blame anyone, it just seemed unnecessary. I still have the same pain doing the same stuff, a year and a half later.
Well, my biceps tendon doesn’t pop out of place now so that’s good. I can’t say I regret surgery, but i do regret putting it off. I could’ve been like 8-10 months post-op but now.
Haha, yeah, that’d be nice.
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That’s how I feel nowadays, although going to a gym is more motivating, and convenient, than my backyard workouts.