Ha! I just feel old…
405 x 5 is no joke. You probably just wore yourself out. I was pretty happy the first time I pulled 405 x 3. Four to five weeks later I pulled 545.
Thanks man. Hopefully that is the case for me. I’m not real used to trying to work up to anything close to a max, so there is a learning curve just to that.
I am enjoying being a little more “athletic-focused” right now. Maybe I’ll even actually do something outside when it warms up.
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Today I did a bunch of OHP. Turns out the bamboo bar belongs to someone. He wasn’t there for me to ask, so I didn’t feel comfortable using it.
When I OHP, my upper back tightens up and feels awful later. What am I doing wrong?
The other day I ramped up to 245 x 5 then 265 x 3 Pendlay rows, then I did a bunch of pull-ups and curls (because I will NEVER stop doing curls).
Today I did Zercher squats for the second time, and did 275/ 5 with my stinky knee sleeves. Then some single leg stuff and the sled. My abs started cramping and I didn’t feel good. Not sure if I was bracing well or needed to go to the bathroom…
Did a HIIT workout class today on a work trip.
Holy crap. Hard.
Maybe it’s my wake-up call to get into shape…?
No conditioning lately?
Absolutely not.
I may push a sled a few times or something like that, but I have clearly not been pushing myself with incomplete rest. In a way it’s good, because it’s something I can quickly improve (since it’s lacking) - I’ve always had an easier time getting lungs than getting strong anyway.
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I prefer high intensity stuff like circuits or sprint intervals but my heart rate actually responds best to sessions on the elliptical and other cardio machines. I always do the interval programs but I get bored very quickly on those.
I feel best, like spent but good, when I do relatively long durations of hard intervals with incomplete rest. So like 30 minutes of Tabata (I know it’s not actually Tabata) rounds of burpees, mountain climbers, whatever back-to-back.
But I tend to go all in on stuff for awhile, then stop caring and do something else.
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Stupid knee has been “stuck” in the locked position for a couple of days. It doesn’t really hurt. I think it’s all the sitting in cars the last couple weeks, but we’ll see. Ortho tonight.
Still kicking ass I see matey 
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Thanks man. How are you? How’s fatherhood?
My knees have apparently gotten themselves into a more pronounced bone-on-bone scenario. We did some more steroid injections and are trying some stiff J-braces to try to make the patella stay where it’s supposed to, instead of forging its own way out into the world. We’ll do some lubricant injections in a couple weeks, I think.
I guess I’ll think through some adjustments when I start doing legs again. Right now I’m pretty uncomfortable. I’m taking the kids to visit their grandparents for the rest of the week, though, so it’s a fine time for a break anyway.
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Does your patella dislocate or sublux?
I did that as an acute injury in '07 and had surgery to clean up the soft tissue and do a lateral release.
I did the same thing to my other knee in high school but never fixed it. Both still have their issues but no more subluxations.
Not that I’m consciously aware of, if it does.
On the X-rays, both patella are well lateral of where they should be, and have started wearing themselves new grooves (like tracks) there.
Then there are a bunch of bone spurs and calcifications that come with good old osteoarthritis.
Every now and again it gets extra irritated for one reason or another, and I have to go get some steroids.
The last 4 docs have said the surgical option is replacement, so we’re obviously looking to delay that.
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I’m loving it so far. My daughter is beautiful in so many ways. Im a changed man that’s for sure!
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That sounds bad and it’s quite odd that you’re body would go that. The lateral release eliminated the tissue that helps hold the patella in place. We have a medial one and lateral one (it’s called retinaculum). They removed my lateral one of the left knee so nothing is pulling the patella laterally anymore.
I would’ve guessed this was an option for you but the docs are smarter than I. You must have a lot going on to have developed this.
And you would know if your patella truly subluxed or dislocated.
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That’s terrific! Congratulations! Best job you’ll ever have.
Who knows. It may be, but this has only recently become the bigger problem. Before it was ACLs and then the arthritis. The patella tracking has developed over time; we seem to think the arthritis has kind of pushed it that way.
I just have some injuries that accumulated and I have to deal with it sometimes. It’s less a big deal for me than it would be for you, because my job doesn’t require anything out of me: I can just be fat and lazy, which are my real skills.
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@Frank_C I’ve been thinking more about your experience, instead of just being cranky. A release may end up being helpful. We’ll see what the doc says over the next couple weeks - typically we try to avoid more surgeries if we can be conservative because they tend to make the arthritis worse. They even used to do a procedure to clean out the arthritis, which has since fallen out of favor because it seemed to result in net increase of said OA.
Anyway, what kind of therapy did they have you do prior to surgery? Did anything help? What did your knee feel like before and after (trying to guesstimate how big a part of my problem the patellar tracking is)? How long was the recovery?
Sorry for the interview, but thanks for any insights.
If your patella are lateral, or “outside” of where they should be, maybe your legs/knees are medial or “inside” where they should be.
Like you’re knock-kneed, flat footed, and your knees aren’t tracking over your toes properly because they’re “coming in.”
Maybe we could do some glute oriented, knees out stuff and some knees over middle toes tracking drills to fix you up.
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