nlmain, thanks, Pm’d done. I’m feeling a bit better but I woke up this morning feeling like I’m getting a cold now.
Alexus, make some “band” vids, should be interesting.
Think I’m feeling better as actually started to give a shit about stuff again and don’t mind interacting with people (well certain people). ugh and just found out doctor is an hour’s bus ride away, I’m hoping I just have to see him once and that he’ll tell me I fine to dive as soon as this sinus crap clears up. Ok enough of this whiney crap, next time I log on here it’ll be after the gym, I miss my squats.
MiM, I think the squats missed me too, they were a bit sulky. My coach wasn’t there and I still felt a bit shakey and stuff so we skipped snatching. Good thing too as I couldn’t even get the squatting right. This other ‘coach’ usually deals with the rugby teams that come in, so he always does things slightly different. Anyway he had the box at an angle between my legs, and little old me gets confused enough, I don’t think I could adjust my stance the normal way for some reason. Anyway 55kg was hard
Heh, 55kg is my one rep max for squats. It’s embarrassing considering I can do leg extensions with 60kg and leg press with 160kg. But the squat is a whole other animal.
Regarding the sinuses, I just started swimming (as a replacement for running, due to bad foot) and find the chlorine really irritates them. The first day I swam I was sneezing and blowing my nose all morning. The second time wasn’t so bad but my soft palate was sore. Third time better, but it still leaves me feeling as though I’ve been crying all night. I wear goggles but I still feel crappy after. Could it be you have a similar issue? (Otherwise, could be pollen, if it’s not a virus).
Lex, yeah that part just threw me off and the fact I hadn’t been lifting consistently enough. My right foot was turning out again though. I guess either weak glute or tight hip flexor, of which both bother me. Not to mention I feel sore in the quads today, I never really get sore in the quads from back squatting, so something was wonky.
Cal, I know what you mean. I have to really really concentrate on my right hip & its stabilisers on the squat. I was getting better at it , just have to get back.
I have noticed a few times the chlorine bothers me, even from last year. But I think its just everything happening at once, including pollen & the diving. I’ve had to do some reading up for my rescue stuff anyway, there seem to be a number of things (allergies included) that can get irritated with diving. Could be something like sinus barotrauma or could have polyps in my sinuses? Ah who knows, that doctor doesn’t have appointments available till next week.
the mobility WOD episode 2 is something that i didn’t get to today… but something that i’m going to do tomorrow. i wonder if it might help us both out?
i’ve done a lot of standing quad stretching to try and stretch out my hip flexors and what i got for my troubles was the femur jamming painfully into the front of the hip. seems like the key is to stretch the hip flexors while simultaneously recruiting the glutes. seems that the glutes play some kind of stabilization role on the femur. or something. anyway… see how i can go with the plantarflexion aspect and hopeful it might help me out. would be cool if it could help you too.
Thanks Lexy, I’ll do these tonight, although why so much blah blah for the first half of the video?
Finally have an appt with Dr tomorrow, although I could’ve arranged things better, supposed to be going to oly gym tomorrow too, they are both on opposite sides.
i don’t know why he blah blahs. though i found the skateboard example interesting. also about finishing the pull on cleans. maybe… this has something to do with why i don’t finish the pull properly… because trying to overextends my back in ways that aren’t good since i don’t have the flexibility in my hips / the glute activation to stabilize that movement safely. hmm…
i’m a little ashamed to admit i haven’t done episode 2 yet :-/ i think i want to take this one with me to the gym because i’m worried i might destabilize my hip again :-/
Lex, yeah sorry I’m just one for cutting to chase, I’m not a big talker or a big listener of talkers. Just show me the damn exercise! By the by, heard a few peeps in Kiwi-land have some intense snow, don’t envy them.
No diving for 4 weeks, I have to get in some snorkels for some rescue stuff anyway. I’m hoping to get that all out of the way and that I can do the test in a few weeeks. hoping the weather stays. Got some more steriods (unfortunately not the kind that make your muscles grow faster), this one to shove up my nose. My head is just inflammed, so gotta get the inflammation down before I can do any diving. Also my balance is a bit askew, but think it always has been. Off to oly gym, wonder how the body will behave.
I did that stretch today. It sucks, but I obviously need it.
Techno - hope your head feels better soon. It sounds very uncomfortable. Fingers crossed the steroids will clear it up quickly.
Cal, yeah I cried mommy on the stretch, I wussed out after 10 seconds, will have to revisit it. Alexus, can you actually do that, cuz I can’t really ;-(
Yesterday’s oly lifting was just ok for not having a proper session since the 22nd (jeez has it been that lon??) Blah, the empty bar even felt heavy, guess it’ll just take a little while longer to get strength back. After awhile the 25kg, started to feel ok again, except on wrist. I wonder if I’ll really be able to get that 30kg in the next 4 sessions.
We only did 2 sets of 2’s, instead of 3 of 3’s (coach likes his triples), since I couldn’t get enough oxygen into me. Again the hang snatch seems to be embedded in my memory, don’t know WTF went on with below the knees. But that’ll just take more reps of doing it with the first pull for me to get into my little head/body.
Did some Arnold presses, BB push presses and (you’ll like this alexus) did some set up with bands that simulates throwing a shot puck.
I’m starting to rethink my shoulder problems, the rotation part on the arnold press was the worst. But I think my right shoulder has an ROM issues, while my left just has an issue with actual strength. So new strategy on the old shoulders since the old one doesn’t seem to be helping.
Ah DOMS!, can barely lift my arms to type. Glad I brought my fins to the pool, arms were not much use, they loosened up after awhile. Did some backward tows again, really focusing on my glutes, felt good on the hamstrings too. No duck dives for me though, so I didn’t get to ‘play around’ in the pool like I like.
Going snorkeling this evening, while the rest of my club dives. I think the sea air will do my lungs some good.
MiM, no just weird hours and different time zones.
So yesterdays snorkel was just ok. The sea air, I guess helped a little still needed inhalor afterwards. I fucking hate wearing constricting weight belts and being able not to breathe properly doesn’t help. By the time I got in the water (after waiting for the divers to get themselves ready) it got a bit dark, so all I saw was plankton and seaweed.
A seal and myself managed to frighten each other though. They are usually ok but sometimes can get a bit frisky with their playing. I think I only did about 15 minutes of snorkeling which isn’t much, especially not enough for 4 hours. Our Cox’n decided to play with me when I tried to swim back to the boat.
Oly gym tonight. And tomorrow some chick from some Eastern European weightlifting federation is doing a talk on Saturday at the gym, should be interesting. The oly gym is merging with another general lifting gym, my membership to getting Oly coaching will include access to this other gym as well. It’s a little closer to work but not really to home, but should be nice.
Have you considered the Neti pot post swim? One of the guys this weekend was getting a really bad sinus headache from all the water up his nose (wake boarding) and I rigged one up for him, it really did the trick.
Hey Patch, yeah it should be cool and then I won’t get kicked out of the place before I can finish my stuff. The current place closes too early on a Friday, by the time the stupid bus got me there, I didn’t really have time for any oly stuff.
Well had my normal coach been there, he would’ve late me trained later. And this guy was kind of pushing me not to do a proper warm up with my prehab stuff, so I just did strength stuff with him. While I like this other guy he’s just a S&C for rugby players, so I just don’t mesh with his instructions/criticisms.
Anyway tonight’s workout:
Box squats 5x5
40kg
45kg
47.5kg
40kg
52.5kg (Damn that felt heavy on my right side I was like the Pisa Tower, 3 weeks ago 55kg felt solid, I think I’ll do some extra bulgarian squats again, to bring up the right side).
5 sets 8 reps of press shot puck simulation thingy with purple band (???)
Then I was kicked out of gym.
I think I’m going to do stuff at home until they open at the other place. One, can’t afford to pay them for this month and I hate taking the piss, and two that bus ride took me 1hr 20mins this time, only to be kicked out early. Besides will do some extra swimming next week. And I miss working out on my own. I’ll just post videos for critique in the meanwhile.
Shoulder did not like the new pressing exercise, keep forgetting that I have to be careful with new pressing moves. Did some YTWL’s over weekend, spot of yoga here & there and a big 1.5 hour walk yesterday, forgot water and my feet were killing me afterwards.
The talk I went to on Saturday was very interesting. She’s a weightlifter and a psychologist, does all sorts of life/athlete mind coaching. The 2 hours actually flew by (but not the 2 hours to get there and back), I should’ve taken notes because a lot of ‘ah yes so true’ moments I can’t really remember. Alot of things that of course can cross over into any area of life.
So tonight, some oly lifts, well getting back into the feel of the snatch from the box. I’m going to stick with light enough weights so that I can do some practically every day this week, just want to get it stuck into me. And going to go to the pool 4 times this week with my fins. I even managed to plan out most of my dinners this week. I’ll do some regular lifting at my old gym that I’m going to cancel this month. Going back to bulgarian squats & good mornings since I won’t have access to squat rack. I’m just cranking things up because I won’t have that extra 4 hours of travel, and the extra 4 hours of getting scuba stuff ready, not to mention that next week is TOM, so this is usually my strong week.
Cardio has been even more of a pain since I can’t breathe properly, now I have this sticky clear filmy stuff coming out of my lungs, but dr says as long as it isn’t green or yellow I’m fine.
