Just. Don't. Suck. Vol. 2

[Frank_C]

5.5.25

Continuing a rant from Alex’s log:

Alex_uk: 40 years in the making

My experience says that they start focusing on the cause of the injury and try to correct that. For example, if I were to commit to full blown PT again for my back, I’m sure we’d focus on my body’s order of operations in my posterior chain. If you lie face down and lift your leg (extension), your glute should fire first, then hamstrings, then spinal erectors. Mine is out of order which is probably why I keep experiencing my back injury. That, and the tendency for repeat occurrences after th…

I would like to officially declare and commit to the following:

• I will not squat until June even if I feel better
• I will not deadlift until June
• I will not do any Olympic style pulls until June

I’m hopeful I’ll feel mostly normal in another week. I’m still in a lot of pain and still get that stabbing pain that takes your breath away and nearly makes you fall down, but it’s better.

I plan to train legs today. I think that’s going to mean leg extensions, leg curls, seated calf raises, and possibly a bodyweight lunge, split squat, or RFESS. Depending on time and motivation, I might look up a CF type workout that has a lot of Assault Bike and use that for my lungs and legs.

I trained my pulling muscles Sunday at work. It consisted of lat pull downs with no body english, incline DB rows, a couple sets of Wendler Rows (cable low, standing, shrug and row slightly to target traps), and single arm reverse fly’s on the cables. My rear delts are still smoked so all is well in the world.