Just having a conversation with @unicornsandrainbows about how we hold ourselves to an impracticable standard and are often very hard on ourselves. And it made me think of something that transpired in the gym on Monday night.
I was deadlifting on Monday and the weight was 400lbs for 3 sets of 3 and the 4th set should have been an amrap. The deadlift platforms at my gym are near the front door so it means anyone walking in or out has to walk past where you are training. 3 different people made a positive comment on the weight I was lifting, all of which I played down with some sort of funny comment. When I did my 4th set I only had 3 reps left in me. This is a few reps short of my PR and well under what I would have accepted as a good result, so I felt pretty Meh about the effort.
Now bear in mind I tore my pec 10 days before and my mind was half focused on any pain in the sternum / chest area. Who else in normal life is pulling 4 plates ? and who else is doing it whilst healing from a torn pec. But to me the performance wasn’t good enough.
Sometimes it’s hard to see how high we have climbed when we are only looking up.
Love this. Sometimes you have to zoom out and look at the trendline of progress. Flat progress lately could still be major improvements over the past 5 years. I’ve struggled with this before and lately I try to be proud of the effort rather than the results.
I use it as motivation to train harder though and I like that type of thinking and the way it pushes me towards my goals. Never satisfied. That’s how I look at it.
I can’t speak for those here, but I feel we often need to be reminded of just how far above “average” many of us on here are.
Our standards are definitely skewed within this forum bubble. I am very guilty of getting caught in that, as we discussed in my log.
As you said, credit where credit is due. Sometimes looking down or back is a good thing.
Fantastic work on the 4 plates!
I do get this but to me this is like saying ‘I am strong for my size or weight’. I know I have talked to @T3hPwnisher about this before. My preference is to just be strong full stop.
Saw the physio again this morning and after seeing the bruising that has now come out, he has sent me for an ultrasound to take a better look at what is going on. There is bruising on my pec where it goes to the shoulder but also bruising on the outside of my right deltoid. Physio did ask me if the deltoid bruise was from we walking into something, in his words ‘you are pretty wide unit mate’. This made me chuckle.
Probably wont get the scan done for a few days but will report back what we find.
I have purposefully refrained from commenting on it because it isn’t my place. But in all honesty, from what you have so far reported about the treatment you have received, I am relieved you are seeing someone else additionally about it.
No need to hold back mate, always happy for your input both positive and negative. It is often funny how there are very different approaches to these types of thing based on what country you in. Also different set up and different cost structures. A lot of it is also very patient driven, so unless you ask sometimes you don’t get. I am using a physio that I have used for multiple other issues over the last 8 years, but I am also very bad at asking for more. I tend to have a ‘she’ll be right’ attitude.
I just don’t want to get into the spot where it seems like I am bashing collegues, you know? That would be unprofessionell, especially if I am not having the full picture. But I’ll tell you the part that bothered me.
look forward to discussing it tomorrow. I think with all these types of things the treatment is often scaled based on patient response. Remember that when I sent to see the physio, I had pretty much full range of motion, and no real pain during the consult. Only pain was from pressing movements with weight in the gym. I would guess that if the issue is more serious than we first thought, it may largely be due to em underselling the effects of the injury itself. I am not married to this physio so don’t care if you criticize or identify things that could have been done better. Will be good for me to know for the next one. LOL
