[quote]SteelyD wrote:
Waaaay behind on updating my log…
No real 1RM PR’s since the 405 squat and 385 DL. I cannot break 400 with the deadlift. It’s all at the bottom. Above my knees and lockout, I’m fine. I just can’t get the weight more than a couple inches off the floor…
Had a WICKED rep PR squat night last night (below), so instead of posting the past couple weeks of pretty much more of the same, I’ll start with that.
Did a progress pic today. Arms at 17.5+, so this eating and lifting shit seems to be working
[quote]mjnewland wrote:
Lookin Large! Dr. Lardass perscribes YTWLs and cable internal/external rotations for the shoulder.[/quote]
Thanks MJ! What are "YTWL"s?
I do the cable rotations as well as lying db rotations.
The worst is when I move my arm like this:
Place your right hand on your heart, like listening to the National Anthem. Extend your arm to the right at arms length and arc your hand to your forehead, touching the back of your hand to forehead like you’re checking for fever.
As soon as I arc back, my shoulder pops and ‘drops’ like it dislocates and like someone poked me behind my shoulder with a stick. When I do the reverse, it just grinds-- sounds like crumpling paper.
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
mjnewland wrote:
Lookin Large! Dr. Lardass perscribes YTWLs and cable internal/external rotations for the shoulder.
Thanks MJ! What are "YTWL"s?
I do the cable rotations as well as lying db rotations.
The worst is when I move my arm like this:
Place your right hand on your heart, like listening to the National Anthem. Extend your arm to the right at arms length and arc your hand to your forehead, touching the back of your hand to forehead like you’re checking for fever.
As soon as I arc back, my shoulder pops and ‘drops’ like it dislocates and like someone poked me behind my shoulder with a stick. When I do the reverse, it just grinds-- sounds like crumpling paper.
Blechhh.[/quote]
I’m still doing a variety of shoulder exercises, but they work.
On the stretches, I started making real progress on the rotator cuff problems when I (a) stretched every day and (b) held each stretch for at least thirty seconds.
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
mjnewland wrote:
Lookin Large! Dr. Lardass perscribes YTWLs and cable internal/external rotations for the shoulder.
Thanks MJ! What are "YTWL"s?
I do the cable rotations as well as lying db rotations.
The worst is when I move my arm like this:
Place your right hand on your heart, like listening to the National Anthem. Extend your arm to the right at arms length and arc your hand to your forehead, touching the back of your hand to forehead like you’re checking for fever.
As soon as I arc back, my shoulder pops and ‘drops’ like it dislocates and like someone poked me behind my shoulder with a stick. When I do the reverse, it just grinds-- sounds like crumpling paper.
Blechhh.
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From the sounds of it, MJ has called it correctly. YTWL’s. He convinced me to start doing them and the pain and looseness of the right shoulder is slowly going away.
Here’s a decent video of them:
Thumb orientation is important on the first three movements(YTW). Thumb should be pointing at the ceiling at the top of the movement. I don’t know why it makes the difference, but I can feel it working more when I get my thumbs towards the ceiling.
That toy camera makes you look HUGE! Or maybe it’s just your hugeness…you’ve gone over 225 bodyweight now right? good progress at the gym took, not sure I’d try to spot that much for someone, but I’m just a little guy!!! Rock on.
Went down with the flu bug last week (wed 2/4) and was incapacitated (read: in bed, on toilet, or puking) for the better part of 3 days.
No appetite for going on over a week now.
To top it off, Monday I had a back spasm (while sitting at my computer desk) which literally put me on the floor-- felt like it put me back 2 years ago-- couldn’t walk nothing.
Went to chiro Tuesday AM, plus had my regular ART Tuesday PM. When I got back Tuesday PM, was sitting again AND HAD ANOTHER LOWER BACK SPASM!! Took a percocet and went to bed.
Have a chiro appt Friday, but I’m easily out of the gym until next week-- can hardly fucking stand up let alone lift.
This sucks-- lost weight AND can’t lift.
2 steps forward, one step back- no fun. I hate my back.
Back was feeling a little more stable today. Of course, I’m going out of my mind not being in the gym for the better part of a week, so I ventured in today.
Did 10 rep sets of DB Presses right up the rack.
25x10, 35x10, 55x10, 65x10, 75x10, 85x8
I hung from a bar in between sets (deload back), sat in the sauna for a few minutes and called it a day.
Not a lot of energy and I still have no real appetite although I forced down a shitload of eggs, milk, a couple PB sandwiches and a protein shake, although I feel like I’m going to puke it up.
I’m going to try to ease back into the routine. Probably do some arm work tomorrow and maybe a little back mobility stuff.
Well, after about 3 weeks of intermittant working out because of stomach flu, travel, and weather, I’m getting back into the groove… albeit a really weak one.
Man, how quickly strength regresses!
Was away all last week on biz with not one workout-- that sucked. Did Chest and Squats, yesterday and the day before, respectively-- weights are way down.
I lost 10 lbs because of stomach flu and didn’t really eat for 2 weeks-- couldn’t put anything down.
I’m going to take a 2 week “diet adjustment” and use it to clean-up the diet and try to lose some bloat. I have a wedding to attend, then a biz trip to Palm Springs in 2 weeks, so when I return, I’ll ramp back up the heavy stuff.
Gonna add AM cardio and much shorter rest periods for the next 2 weeks to try to shed a little and shake the routine up a bit.
I went 10 days without working out because of the flu, and I’ve been hitting PRs on almost every session since then. I have become a big evangelist for taking a week off when youre tired or sick.
Usually, if I’m just feeling groggy, like I’m fighting something off, I’ll go in and at least try to something. Sometimes it’s productive, sometimes just going through the motions.
I haven’t been ‘down’ sick in years, maybe 3, but I got successive stomach flus which are just nasty, nasty, nasty. I don’t think the gym would have appreciated my puking and shitting all over the equipment
It’s not even the downtime that killed me, but the complete loss of appetite for so long. Had a couple days where I couldn’t eat anything, and that first week I survived on progresso chicken/rice soup. Just to try to get protein, I cracked eggs into the soup. I couldn’t keep a shake down.
Did legs Sunday and shoulders last night, both felt OK albeit at significantly less weight than ‘normal’ although I suspect I’ll get back in a couple weeks. I made up for it by adding more sets.
