30 miles in a week will definitely get the weight loss mojo going. Glad to see that the rehab is going okay.
Lifting again already. Way to go. Rehab sucks but you can come back stronger. 1/2 marathon? You mean like 13mi+? What’ll be chasing you?
[quote]hel320 wrote:
Lifting again already. Way to go. Rehab sucks but you can come back stronger. 1/2 marathon? You mean like 13mi+? What’ll be chasing you?[/quote]
not me - unless it’s on a bike
Rehab it right - pays off in the long run!
JJ - It’s definitely slow, but would be a lot slower with other repair techniques. All lifting with the injured arm is with very slow movement, like 5 or more seconds concentric, and the same eccentric. No jerky stuff allowed.
Strick - I have to starve myself AND exercise to lose weight!
Hel - I actually love distance stuff. I used to run ultramarathons, until arthritis in the knee and ankle sidelined me. Halfathon (13.1 miles) is really distance light for me.
Soldog - I’m taking it slow and it is paying off. Each day is a little better, and (knock on wood) so far I haven’t done anything that hurt or felt like it might have compromised the healing.
I’m still doing some (mostly) bodyweight lower body stuff, and just started doing some very light shoulder work (front, side, and bent raises with the pink dumbbells). I need Meat to spot me and yell, “It’s all you, man!” and someone to shoot the vids to post on YouTube (all in the squat rack, of course). 
Thise ultras are insane. I considered doing them once and then decided I’d rather have elective pile surgery.
Congrats on lifting, well anything, with that busted wing.
[quote]mathineer wrote:
Strick - I have to starve myself AND exercise to lose weight!
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Starve? I am not familiar with that word. But it doesn’t sound pleasant.
That is a bad combo. At 30 miles, though, I would think you could eat a little
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
Thise ultras are insane. I considered doing them once and then decided I’d rather have elective pile surgery.
Congrats on lifting, well anything, with that busted wing.[/quote]
Joe,
I started with the elective pile surgery, but it just wasn’t painful enough…
I too think ultra-marathons are insane. That’s further than across a volleyball court, right? But staying in the game any way you can is more important than sanity.
My wife used to run marathons, but seems to have done all the running this life has alloted her after the 2007? 2008? Las Vegas Marathon. Maybe I can get her lifting weights now.
[quote]LittleStrick wrote:
[quote]mathineer wrote:
Strick - I have to starve myself AND exercise to lose weight!
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Starve? I am not familiar with that word. But it doesn’t sound pleasant.
That is a bad combo. At 30 miles, though, I would think you could eat a little :)[/quote]
That’s where we eat 100kcals under maintaince each day. 
[quote]ruglayer09052000 wrote:
[quote]LittleStrick wrote:
[quote]mathineer wrote:
Strick - I have to starve myself AND exercise to lose weight!
[/quote]
Starve? I am not familiar with that word. But it doesn’t sound pleasant.
That is a bad combo. At 30 miles, though, I would think you could eat a little :)[/quote]
That’s where we eat 100kcals under maintaince each day. ;)[/quote]
OH! Gotcha. I do that every evening that my wife cooks
Sure hope she doesn’t read that or my intake might get even lower…lol/
Math, where you hiding?
[quote]LittleStrick wrote:
Math, where you hiding?[/quote]
I didn’t figure I had much of interest to say to all of you heavy lifters.
This Friday will be 10 weeks post-surgery. I’m mowing the yard now (and I can’t tell you how thrilled I am about that!). I’m curling 7 lbs with the injured arm. May go to 8 tonight. (12 oz. curls are definitely not a problem, even in a pint glass.) I’m doing raises, presses, rows, SLDLs, squats, etc, but with VLW (very light weights, or should that be EBW for embarassingly light weights?).
The arm is feeling pretty good. It feels like I could probably do more, but I’m forcing myself to hold back and take is slow. I can actually see a little bit of muscle through the flab now (it had really atrophied to the point where you couldn’t see anything at 6 weeks).
I’m walking a lot - still training for a halfathon this fall. My long walks are up to 10 miles, and my last one was at an average pace of just under 16:40 mpm. I’m pretty sure I could walk a half marathon today; it would just take close to 4 hours. I’ve lost some weight, but I’m kind of stalled now. The warmer weather ushered in BBQ season, and you can’t BBQ without a beer or six.
And speaking of beer, I’m brewing this weekend. I have a friend helping with the heavy lifting.
Math - you’re part of the family. You don’t have to post workouts to be here. We just want to know what’s going on. Keep up with the workouts, recovery and life in general.
Speaking of brews…I still need to find some mead to try.
Glad your progress is coming along.
[quote]LittleStrick wrote:
Math - you’re part of the family. You don’t have to post workouts to be here. We just want to know what’s going on. Keep up with the workouts, recovery and life in general.
Speaking of brews…I still need to find some mead to try.[/quote]
I definitely try to keep up with the life thing.
Thanks for the kind words. I’ll try to update more often.
I’ve never brewed a mead (or any of the honey/barley derivatives). Mead takes a long time to ferment, and so ties up your fermenters. It can take several months to brew a strong mead. The high alcohol content requires champaign yeast, and then the yeast get drunk and don’t work very fast.
Google “Tactical Nuclear Penguin”, a very high gravity stout. They get something like 30% alcohol by a freezing process. That high of an alcohol would kill the yeast.
[quote]ruglayer09052000 wrote:
Glad your progress is coming along.[/quote]
Thanks, Ruglayer!
Mead sound good. Are you doing your lifting under the eye of a terrorist, I mean therapist, or on your own?
whatcha brewin’? another porter?
keep up with the plan on the rehab and don’t be a stranger.
[quote]hel320 wrote:
Mead sound good. Are you doing your lifting under the eye of a terrorist, I mean therapist, or on your own?[/quote]
Harry, I’m flyin’ solo. Doc said 1-2 sessions with the terrorist to “teach” me how to do DB curls and DB hammer curls. Doc gave me a progression of 1-2 lbs/week. I saw the terrorist for 1 session, then he couldn’t make the second scheduled session. They wanted to give me a substitute terrorist, but at $30/session co-pay I figured I’d had enough “teaching”. So, I’m on my own.
Just did 3x5 at 8.5 lbs tonight. It was “ALL ME”. I da man!
D*mn! I forgot to do those curls in my power cage!
[quote]soldog wrote:
whatcha brewin’? another porter?
keep up with the plan on the rehab and don’t be a stranger.[/quote]
Dawg,
We’re brewing a 10 gal batch of pale ale. I’m shooting for something pretty close to Bass. Last batch of this recipe turned out pretty good. A former manager of mine is gonna be my brew b*tch, and do the heavy lifting. Of course, he gets 5 gallons of the nectar…
Gawd, I love smellin’ the mash, and the boil…