And hips, and from the flow on effect, it has helped my back and hamstrings a bunch as well.
All my problems really start in the hips.
The way I’ve been explained is that the muscles seem to bunch a whole lot in the glutes. It’s pretty much full of knots, so the tennis ball/golf ball/whatever ball is constant pressure releases said knots.
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Todays training
McGill big three and reverse hyper
DL, stiff bar
2x5xbar
3xplate/154 lbs
2x2 plates/242 lbs
1x3 plates/352 lbs double overhand
1x408 lbs, belt on
4x1x468 lbs - felt a slight pull in my left armpit on the first set, but left was underhand and when I went to left as overhand it was fine. Pulls felt heavy as all shit
3, 1, 1x468 lbs - meant to be 10 AFSAP but on the second single felt a pop in my left armpit.
Considered doing tomorrow’s work that didn’t involve gripping but then I had trouble taking my sleeves off and racking the plates.
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Damn, I hope nothing is injured!
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Thanks mate. So far, no bruising and it now feels tight more than painful. At a guess a strain in my triceps that will hopefully resolve itself with rest.
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Best of luck!
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Happy belated birthday !
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Best of luck with the injury, if there’s no bruising hopefully it should fix itself quickly. Still sucks to have to miss sessions or modify due to a strain.
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Woke at 249.1 lbs, looking about the same as yesterday which is partly salt and partly me eating a bunch yesterday. No bruising on the tricep and it’s just stiff which is a win.
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I read somewhere recently that a lack of bruising or blood show can mean connective tissue damage. The attachments have no real blood flow and a tear, strain, etc will not show a sub dermal bruise like muscle belly injuries.
I hope it’s nothing just passing info along
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That makes sense. I’ve still got full ROM with just stiffness so I’m going with a slight strain and no real damage.
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Hope it’s nothing too serious mark
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Fingers crossed that it will heal up quickly !
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Hope a quick recovery!
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Woke at 245.8 lbs, looking much less bloated than yesterday. Tricep is way better, did some stretching yesterday and no pain but it is noticeably tighter than the right side.
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Happy to hear this
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Woke at 245.8 lbs again, looking similar to yesterday.
Ultra is closed, ended up suspending my standards and going to Club Lime in Belconnen.
Todays training
Air squats
Squat, walked out
5xbar - fuck squatting with a standard bar
Saw a safety bar, Club Lime immediately becoming less shit
5xSSB
5xplate/154 lbs
5x3x253 lbs
5 wide-ish neutral-ish grip pullups - tricep was just ok with these. Feels more like a help of a knot, but definitely didn’t want to push past five reps in case
Bench press
2x5xbar - SSB good, bench very bad
5x3x138 lbs
DL
2x5xbar
5xplate/154 lbs
5x3x281 lbs - no issues with tricep at all
All up 45 minutes, of which maybe 10 was chatting to a guy who was doing some pretty good deficit pulls
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i had a slight pull in my left armpit as well, the last 4 days or so. but i didn’t get it from beasting out with barbells. no idea how it happened to me. lmfao.
glad it’s better!
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Mrs KO bugged me for long enough to shave I bugged her enough to help (apparently she wanted that results but not the work). Figured I’d take some shots. This right after lunch.
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