MJ - You’ll be proud of me. I made myself some chains for squatting by cutting up an old chain harrow. I got the idea from your homemade prowler and weightlifting shoes.
Now get back to some lifting.
[quote]FarmerBrett wrote:
MJ - You’ll be proud of me. I made myself some chains for squatting by cutting up an old chain harrow. I got the idea from your homemade prowler and weightlifting shoes.
Now get back to some lifting.[/quote]
I shall
Disturbingly long post:
I think I am over the hump on the self pity thing, at least for now. I trained yesterday, which will get its own post. Here is what has been going on with me.
On March 3, I went in for my first physical therapy appt. Now, when I saw the doctor, all he did was look at the xray and twist my leg. after reading all the stuff that Cressey et.al. write on this site, I was expecting to do some movement screening stuff. I was disappointed.
The PT put me through that, and was pretty blunt. The best thing you can do for your hip is get your knee replaced. when you walk, your left leg almost collapses inward, so every step you take with the right foot is a step up. This confirmed my concern that my hip was hurting because of my knee. She also said that the sooner I gave up on my desire to squat 600 lbs, the happier I would be, cuz it aint happnin.
So, the PT gave me a couple stretches, one for the piriformis and one for the hip flexor, and said do these at least 6 times per day. Also, ride a recumbent stationary bike for 30 min/day or so with no resistance. Of course I asked can I squat? She said, well, what did you do the last time you squatted. I said I got 290 for 3 but my hip started hurting so I had to quit. She said she wants me to go for much higher reps, in the 30 rep range with no mor than 100 lbs. I pointed out that I usually don’t do that many reps in a whole workout. I did not find out how many sets of 30 I should do. She says I should lose some weight, and I think the 30 rep squats and the 30 min on the hamster bike are supposed be cardio. On the upside, I think those cardio-like things will also get blood flowing in the hip and help heal it. Then she said come back in 2 weeks.
for the next few days, I did the stretches a couple times a day, but not very seriously, and I was just in a major funk. Serious self pity happening for a few days. Then on march 7 I figured, hmm, lets see if I can even do 30 reps with just the bar. got a set of 20. got another set of 18. on the 18th i felt something pop in my hip and figured I should shut it down. then did nothing for a week.
a couple days ago i figured since my next pt session is this thursday, I should pull my head out of my ass and do some of the work so that my money isn’t entirely wasted. Been doing the stretches 6-8 times per day the past couple days, but they aggravate my hip. Read some shit by Dan John about his hip problem which sounds suspiciously similar to mine. So, I figured, shit, I can learn, and looked up the muscles of the hip. it turns out what I always thought was my hip flexor is actually the adductor tie-in on the femur. that is what hurts so bad all the time. so when I do the hip flexor stretch they prescribed, it aggravates my adductor. This in turn made me think. hmmmmm. thinking…
- my hip started hurting all of a sudden, not slowly over time, so even though I have ground out most of the cartilage and have a big-ass bone spur, that is probably not why it hurts so bad.
- according to Carl and Harry, it was most likely my poor throwing form that hurt my adductor. Form is fixable.
- feeling sorry for yourself is for pussies.
So yesterday I lifted and rode the bike for 30 minutes.
push forward Harder,
old crippled Lardass
3/15/11 5/3/1 bench(5) cycle 14
220x 6
bbbcgbench
135x 6/7/7/10/10
bbbbarbellroze
135x 6/7/7/10/10
took it kind of easy today, been out of it for awhile and didn’t want to get too sore. Felt good to get some work in.
I am going back to thrice or 4 times weekly. I have a side project going on right now so there is no time for conditioning. No conditioning, no reason not to train 3 or 4 times. couple more weeks and some time should open up for pushing my frankenprowler
not going to deadlift until my phys therapy is over. the PT said adding muscle on to my ass right now is not going to help us loosen up the hip. so I’ll be doing high rep squats, abz and back extensions on both deadlift and squat days.
at 291 this morning, so i am getting that under control as well.
coast Harder
old lardass
Good to hear you are back at it and have your mind right. Do what you can and get better at those thigns.
glad to see you getting your head straight(er)
Squatting 600 is for pussies anyways. Keep doing what you can until it breaks.
Have to say, I admire the will to comeback. Keep at it, big-guy.
Go for it, just keep doing the rehab. And when you feel like a pity party, remember you have good memories of lifting strong. Few people have even that.
You’ll get back.
Thanks for the support guys!
3/15/11 NOT 5/3/1 squat accessory stuff
back extensions
10x bw/10/25/25/25
ab roll outs
bw x 7/7/7/7/0
4th set of rollouts my adductor started hurting so I shut it down.
I had hoped to get some shrugs, but ran out of time.
I am enjoying lifting all by myself in the Lab. other people suck.
xoxoxo
old lardass
3/19/11 5/3/1 Press(3) cycle 14
145x 5
bbb press
115x 7/8/8/8/10
fat man pullups
bw x 6/5/5/5/5
i hate being to fat to pullups. when I was in my beloved Corps, i could spank out 25 like nobody’s bidnis. now, not hardly. be working on that from now on. stayed light on the bbb press reps just because I hadn’t done the press for almost a month, and I didn’t want to give up any poundage
Also, hugely enjoying not going to the gym. I may not be able to keep this up once I get another nite job, but for now, its nice to lift by myself in the lab. I usually get my lifting in betwixt meat-flipping whilst I roast dinner. Other nites I hit it while my progeny works on his homework. I am not normally allowed to help with this after giving one too many wrong math answers.
Erik (fruit of my loins) swam in the state meet last weekend in the 11-12. No high places, but every event was a PR time for him. he cut a half-second on the 50m breaststroke over his previous best. put him at 40.40 which was still only good enough for 19th. Very proud of my boy. He set himself a goal last year of qualifying for at least one event at the state meet this year, and he qualified for 4 out of 12 events.
I guess I should probably set some kind of goal and hit it too.
stink Harder
old lardass
Sorry to hear that you’re having a rough time physically. Been there. Done that. That’s actually one of the big reason I left the women’s compound and moved over here. So many of us have had serious injuries/chronic pain we’ve had to work through. I think the support here is very good for that.
Goals are good. They definitely keep me moving forward and focused.
What are fat man pullups?
Anything going on with the adjunct positions? I did some of that in between my careers as a college professor and high school teacher. A lot of fun, but pitifully low paying.
Give Erik a high five (or whatever it is they do these days) for me.
I remember back in the Corps I could go out on leave, drink 24/7 and chase girls. Report back and be ready to rock. Us old warhorses just got to do what we can do. Doing something, anything, puts you ahead of most.
maybe I missed something but what is this whole ‘lab’ set up? please explain.
I keep having a bunch of inappropriate training suggestions come to mind for you. Somehow, I decided earlier you should put all your energy into becoming the best BOF ever. This would require you spending time in Chicago with Luyando, then hanging out in Oregon w/Kennely if he is out on bail, then swinging over to the other coast to hang with Vinnie. Meanwhile you would be eating more, not less, and consuming lots of other things, and end up benching 1100.
That is my daydream for you. Happened today during a meeting on Secure Internet Gateway stuff. I didn’t contribute too much, until the end where I sternly demanded commit dates for everyone that had action items (I wasn’t one of them).
[quote]New goals are:
- get down to 250 sooner
- develop the largest traps the world has ever seen.
fuck me harder[/quote]
See? You already have some goals. Did ya’ forget? And is the “fuck me” part goal number three?
Now a bit of a bitch-slap. At our collective age, we cannot ignore prehab, foam rolling, mobility work, and the advice of the PT. Most doctors can never relate to the iron game, but a good PT is to be listened to and trusted implicitly.
So… foam roll your tissues. Just a few minutes a day. Buy Magnificanet Mobility and start doing the movements. This is all highly unsexy stuff, but I swear it is the reason my joints still work. BTW, I got a nasty nerve injury that was a direct result of training through a muscle imbalance and ignoring the warning signs. Just sayin’.
And don’t discount the fun-ness of bodybuilding. It’s my drug. It ain’t easy. It’s a different kind of challenge but its still a helluva challenge… definitely worthy of a guy like you.
I’m done sounding like a knowitall now.
[quote]Canada_K wrote:
[quote]New goals are:
- get down to 250 sooner
- develop the largest traps the world has ever seen.
fuck me harder[/quote]
See? You already have some goals. Did ya’ forget? And is the “fuck me” part goal number three?
Now a bit of a bitch-slap. At our collective age, we cannot ignore prehab, foam rolling, mobility work, and the advice of the PT. Most doctors can never relate to the iron game, but a good PT is to be listened to and trusted implicitly.
So… foam roll your tissues. Just a few minutes a day. Buy Magnificanet Mobility and start doing the movements. This is all highly unsexy stuff, but I swear it is the reason my joints still work. BTW, I got a nasty nerve injury that was a direct result of training through a muscle imbalance and ignoring the warning signs. Just sayin’.
And don’t discount the fun-ness of bodybuilding. It’s my drug. It ain’t easy. It’s a different kind of challenge but its still a helluva challenge… definitely worthy of a guy like you.
I’m done sounding like a knowitall now.[/quote]
well, when you really know it all, its hard to hold it in
[quote]PeteS wrote:
maybe I missed something but what is this whole ‘lab’ set up? please explain.
I keep having a bunch of inappropriate training suggestions come to mind for you. Somehow, I decided earlier you should put all your energy into becoming the best BOF ever. This would require you spending time in Chicago with Luyando, then hanging out in Oregon w/Kennely if he is out on bail, then swinging over to the other coast to hang with Vinnie. Meanwhile you would be eating more, not less, and consuming lots of other things, and end up benching 1100.
That is my daydream for you. Happened today during a meeting on Secure Internet Gateway stuff. I didn’t contribute too much, until the end where I sternly demanded commit dates for everyone that had action items (I wasn’t one of them). [/quote]
“I too have seen this doom”. i was thinking of the BOF thing a week or 2 ago, before I regaines some hope of my hip getting better. i love the idea of “walking da erf, like Caine” learning at the knee of the great bench gods. 6 months with rhodes and little vinnie would get me right…
The Lab is my gym in the garage. platform, bench, squat/bench rack, and no preening ab-checking dumbfux. sadly no fitness bunnies either, but my puritan course requires sacrifice. seriously, between the self pity and hate, I don’t like being around other people when I lift. Once I start working nights again, i’ll probably have to go back to my lifting on the lunch break schedule, but for now, its just me and Crowbar.
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
I remember back in the Corps I could go out on leave, drink 24/7 and chase girls. Report back and be ready to rock. Us old warhorses just got to do what we can do. Doing something, anything, puts you ahead of most.[/quote]
Oh, Joe, you bring back memories of great debauchery. I remember being at Quantico in 1986 at the scout sniper instructor school. after a short training day on saturday 6 of us would pack into a Torino and drive up to gtown. there was a heavy metal bar called the Crazy Horse which we would close down, then sleep in the Torino in front of some guy’s house on L street. sunday afternoon, pancakes then back to base, stalk monday morning. ah the memories