[quote]dday wrote:
[quote]tyrfryer wrote:
[quote]dday wrote:
Welcome tyrfryer. Where abouts in MO are you? Best of luck on your goals. [/quote]
Thanks, I’m in St. Louis.[/quote]
Ah man, I’m sorry. J/K I’m just outside of KC.[/quote]
'Sallright, Dday, I ain’t mad atcha! Poor guy, it must suck living in MO & not having my beautiful Arch…
Welcome, good to see your starting a log, good to see your not going to let DVT’s stop you. Are they disolved, and your prone to them now or are they still there. You walk a thin line, but if you didn’t walk it you wouldn’t get anywhere. If you need opinions there are very knowledgable people here abouts that can give really good advice.
Thanks, Dude. The clots will be there the rest of my life. Both the Army and VA said they couldn’t remove them. As for walking that line, luckily I’ve got good balance. 
Welcome aboard.
Are you on Coumadin? or another blood thinner?
I worked ER for 14 years, family practice for 3 and now Occupational med for 4 years.
Most DVT’s are acute blockage that either are dissolved, absorbed or surgically removed.
I have had many Vets that do not receive the best treatment in the VA.
Do you have an ability to seek outside treatment?
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
Welcome aboard.
Are you on Coumadin? or another blood thinner?
I worked ER for 14 years, family practice for 3 and now Occupational med for 4 years.
Most DVT’s are acute blockage that either are dissolved, absorbed or surgically removed.
I have had many Vets that do not receive the best treatment in the VA.
Do you have an ability to seek outside treatment?[/quote]
Coumadin. The warfarin I’m on is the generic I guess. These DVTs are here to stay, bro. The one in my femoral is a roughly 6-9 inch complete occlusion. My body actually built a collateral vein back in 2000, but when I invaded Iraq, spending the entire first 3-4 days in a truck, then the next 3+weeks almost all in the truck, the clot got bigger & grew above the collateral vein. At least, that’s how the Army doctors explained it.
Just VA for now, unfortunately. I’ve almost lost my left foot twice now due to blood pooling around that ankle causing a leg ulcer. Talk about ugly! Now my damn left ankle & just above looks nasty forever, gotta wear compression stockings (mantyhose) forever.
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
I have had many Vets that do not receive the best treatment in the VA.
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Almost forgot, funny story. I’ve got chronic bronchitis from smoking 30+ years (my own damn fault, yes, still a smoker). Back in 04, my job had me outside chasing down BD kids who wanted to run away etc. Come november, I developed pnuemonia w/o knowing it. Now, I cough up lots of phlegm about 9 months out of the year anyway, so I’m used to heavy coughing during november. One night as I’m getting ready for work, I have one of those coughing fits and feel a strange sort of pop in my right side, followed by sharp pain. From then on, anytime I try to cough, that pain comes so sharp I can’t. Next morning after work, I go to the VA clinic & explain the whole deal. VA doc gives me some OTC cough syrup & motrin (ddi you expect anything else?) & tells me I should be over the cold in a few days. That night, it’s worse if anything, so I go to the local ER. They do a chest x-ray and another kind of internal viewing & find that I’ve got pnuemonia & I cracked a rib from coughing so hard (?!?!). They gave me appropriate meds & I healed right up. ER bill went to the VA, & they paid it. I just find it hilarious that I cracked a rib from coughing. Who does that, really?
Wow just wow, I was a smoker as well and quit about 5 years ago when I contacted pneumonia and had to spend 3 days in the hospital, I still have a slip up now and again especially when drinking but it was tough as I was a smoker since I was a young teen. I hope you can find a way to quit those butts!
Did smoking help contribute to your developing DVT?
Why not get the parts of your vein removed?
Good work in here BTW and thanks again for your praise.
[quote]FISCHER613 wrote:
Did smoking help contribute to your developing DVT?
Why not get the parts of your vein removed?
Good work in here BTW and thanks again for your praise.[/quote]
No, it was trauma induced. An 80 lb. table fell on my left leg, bruised the muscle & bone w/o breaking the skin & put me on crutched for a week.
IDK, Army & VA docs said this is it? Search me, man. I’d love to be rid of them, but I’m rather resigned after 11 years.
Thanks. I only give praise where it’s due. I’ve made a couple of almost harsh, at the least tough love, posts for a couple of guys who seem like they need it. Most of you cats are putting up numbers I dream of, ergo…
(Nasally) You guys are my heroes…
LOL
Work from this morning:
Bike 5 min w/u
Barbell Pullovers - 50x10, 50x10, 50x10 (wasn’t really feeling these)
Incline Press - 135x12, 165x10, 185x5
Dbell rows - 45x20, 50x15, 55x12
Machine flyes - 130x16, 145x12, 160x10
Elliptical for 15 min.
Damn elliptical
I think it was just because I went so early in the day, but I just wasn’t into it today. Little lower back pain (time for a new bed), mostly rectified by the time I finished, and just felt blah. Not sick or anything. Probably just cause I’m not a morning person.
Went to weigh myself, lol, 301. I may have to go to a seriously high rep, low rest, low weight, lots of steady state cardio routine for a few months, IDK. Doesn’t really bother me to be this heavy, but don’t want to be too much heavier.
Take it easy days today & tomorrow. Today:
5 Min Bik W/U
Hanging Leg Raises 2x15
Extensions 2x20
15 Min. Lovely Elliptical
I’m wondering how much I’ll need to drop the weights for all lifts, and how much volume I’ll need to add, to be able to still lift, but lose weight for a while. Thoughts?
How about Barbell complexes?
or possibly Tabata complexes for fat loss?
That tabata article was interesting. I don’t think I can muster quite the intensity needed for the 20 sec. to be beneficial, 10 sec definitely won’t be enough after a set of anything using my legs and I’ll need to use regular lifting movements, no burpees or mountain climbers, etc. So, I’m thinking something like 35 sec work, 20 sec rest, using regular lifting movements at about 30% of my estimated 1RM for each. Since I workout by myself, I’ll also do a rep range rather than actual time. To that end, I had a helper time each of 8 movements for me while I did as many reps as possible today, getting an idea of roughly how many reps of each I can do in 35 sec. Now, I’m just going to reprogram to do 2 movements each, 4 days/wk, with a little medium duty compound movements like squats, bench, ohp, deadlifts and lat pull downs (until I can do pull-ups). The rep timing worked in really well today, since I was just doing some crunches then ss cardio. So, today:
Bike 5 min w/u
Crunches 2x18, 15
Timing, reps per 35 sec:
Lat Pull Down 70x29
OHP 45x40
Squat 70x18
SLDL 70x20
Flat Bench 70x40
BB Row 50x39
Leg Press 140(on the sled)x25
Incline Press 70x38
SS Cardio, rowing machine x 15 minutes.
Now, for the embarassing part. The clothed pic kinda explains how I got in this bad a condition. I hide it well. The ankle pic is the result of getting a couple leg ulcers due to blood pooling when I didn’t want to wear the damn mantyhose. Hope you guys don’t look at these after eating…
I think it’s great you posted the pictures. You made the decision that you want to change and posting these help you hold yourself accountable to do better. I am tracking measurements because sometimes photographic evidence of improvement is tougher to judge. The tape don’t lie but can tell you when you lost a 1/4 inch off the belly, something you can’t tell from pictures.
Gborlase - good idea on the measurements; they’ll follow in next post.
Tonights work:
5 minute bike
Inverted rows - BW x 9, 7, 6
Good Mornings - Bar x 15 3 sets
Lat Pull Downs - 140x14, 140x9, 120x12
Military Press - 80x15, 80x15, 80x12
Highly modified Tabata using Leg Press and Incline Bench tonight, back n forth between them, total time 18 minutesfor the 8 sets:
Leg press 140(on sled)x25
Incline Press 70x30
Leg Press 140x20
Incline Press 70x20
Leg Press 140x20
Incline Press 70x15
Incline Press 70x15
Leg Press 140x20
Obviously I need to get my time down for this, but I still got a lot out. After the 2nd set of leg press my HR had to have been around 160-170; I could literally feel it.
Elliptical 15 minutes
HR when I got off the elliptical was 150, total time for workout was 1 hr, 12 min.
Realized as I was driving away that I’d forgotten to take my blood pressure meds & coumadin today, so that’ll be part of where my HR was at. All told, feel good about today.
Today’s measurements:
Weight 300 dead even
Neck - 18.5
Chest - 52
Gut - 53.5
Each Bicep - 15
Wow, says alot, & I don’t like what it says. Just watch it come off.
