and glands.
Excellent tittie discussion going’ on here. Carry on. Joe will have to deal with it. 
So, today’s ART wasn’t that but a very comprehensive evaluation of all my imbalances, weaknesses and tightnesses and how those might relate to my recurring left knee pain. In short, my right hip/leg/calf/ankle/foot all suck in varying degrees, putting lots of stress on my more functional left side. She evaluated my wall squat, saw the knee cave, noted that my right hip doesn’t go down correctly and says she can fix it with exercises. She warned me that the soft tissue work will hurt me, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
I’m willing to give her a shot (a D.C. that does ART too). Starts next week.
Sounds like an informed opinion, then again I wouldn’t know. Pain is good when done right. Can’t believe you had knee cave with a wall squat -that’s really rough.
[quote]kimbakimba wrote:
Excellent tittie discussion going’ on here. Carry on. Joe will have to deal with it.
So, today’s ART wasn’t that but a very comprehensive evaluation of all my imbalances, weaknesses and tightnesses and how those might relate to my recurring left knee pain. In short, my right hip/leg/calf/ankle/foot all suck in varying degrees, putting lots of stress on my more functional left side. She evaluated my wall squat, saw the knee cave, noted that my right hip doesn’t go down correctly and says she can fix it with exercises. She warned me that the soft tissue work will hurt me, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
I’m willing to give her a shot (a D.C. that does ART too). Starts next week.
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I’d love to get a functional eval like that! Really hope she can follow thru and help correct the stuff she identified.
My ART guy is a DC as well. Plus a personal trainer and certified in soft tissue sports injuries. Plus a degree in engineering.
Interesting evaluation, Kimba. I’m very interested to hear what the corrective exercises entail.
I’ll curtail the tittie talk now so as not to scare off your male callers.
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
My ART guy is a DC as well. Plus a personal trainer and certified in soft tissue sports injuries. Plus a degree in engineering.
Interesting evaluation, Kimba. I’m very interested to hear what the corrective exercises entail.
I’ll curtail the tittie talk now so as not to scare off your male callers.[/quote]
no worries from these parts…
and, snapper, I’d like a referral if you are willing to PM me the name of your ART/DC guy
great to hear you’ve got the ART stuff going on. i hope you get ‘fixed.’ glad you know what you are in for in the soft tissue work area! i really should funnel some of my vino funds towards my MT. she does killer deep tissue/sports/complete healing kind of stuff.
to un-curtail the tittie talk:
small boobies welcome around these parts!
Cal, bear and t say pierced boobies FTW…sorreh if i left anyone out…
[quote]soldog wrote:
[quote]kimbakimba wrote:
Excellent tittie discussion going’ on here. Carry on. Joe will have to deal with it.
So, today’s ART wasn’t that but a very comprehensive evaluation of all my imbalances, weaknesses and tightnesses and how those might relate to my recurring left knee pain. In short, my right hip/leg/calf/ankle/foot all suck in varying degrees, putting lots of stress on my more functional left side. She evaluated my wall squat, saw the knee cave, noted that my right hip doesn’t go down correctly and says she can fix it with exercises. She warned me that the soft tissue work will hurt me, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
I’m willing to give her a shot (a D.C. that does ART too). Starts next week.
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I’d love to get a functional eval like that! Really hope she can follow thru and help correct the stuff she identified.[/quote]
x2 From what Ic an tell we don’t have an ART practitioner in all of Birmingham and I’d be a big client.
Oh and don’t curtail any talk on my account 
way to take action Kimba!
N., I had knee cave on my wall squat because she wouldn’t let me point my toes out which is how I (partially) compensate for the cave. I was impressed that a wall squat was part of her eval.
George, it strikes me as very smart to seek out Snap’s ART guy before an injury rather than after. I could ignore my current knee issue because its “not that bad” but I know it will just go downhill from here and I don’t want that.
Snapper, I’m happy to hear that DC plus ART is a good combo in your case. I have NEVER been to a chiropractor before, so I have no idea what to expect in that regard. And, moar tittie talk!
T, I hope I get fixed also. Knee issues at the beginning of the spring bicycling season are a recurring theme for me.
Joe, glad to hear we’re not scaring you away.
Betty, taking action is ma thang. I’m not a sitter-arounder.
good for you for getting it fixed!
On the boobie front… mine have gotten way bigger in the past two months. I guess I’ve just been getting fat. But in a particular location.
SO your knees don’t naturally track over your feet, I’m guessing? After all this talk about “knee cave,” I asked my coach the other day if my knees cave during squat as the weight gets heavier. He responded “never.” I probably do more the kind of struggle like Brute demonstrated in her vid with the back twisty thing going on.
Nope, I had never seen a chiro either, Kimba. My ART guy doesn’t do spinal adjustments, as far as I know. He focuses on soft tissue and does ART and nutrition consulting.
Alisa, if I could get fatter just in my boobs I would love that! And I just saw your Tvixen pic and you are not getting fat anywhere else.
Snapper, you are 100% right. If my feet point straight ahead, my kneecaps are turned inward. In order to get my kneecaps facing straight forward, I must point my feet out. This is a structural issue about how my legs are constructed (bow legs FTW!). So I’m built for knee cave, but I do hope that there is something to be done about it.
Sounds like you’ve been stealthing your way through SAMA.
Joe, good catch!
Kimba - I have the same thing but with knock knees. I have large Q-angles and my right leg is worse. My right knee does not track over my foot but just inside it. Not much I can do about it unless I could somehow disassemble my legs and then stick them back together…but that’s not really an option.
We all have a flaws, we just have to figure out how to work around them.
Joe and Jack, the SAMA pictures are worth the trip over. The “articles”, not so much.
Cal, exactly right. Neither of us can disassemble our legs, but I’d love to learn how to work around these structural issues. I also really, really want my left knee to stop feeling like old-lady-knee.
[quote]kimbakimba wrote:
Joe and Jack, the SAMA pictures are worth the trip over. The “articles”, not so much.
Cal, exactly right. Neither of us can disassemble our legs, but I’d love to learn how to work around these structural issues. I also really, really want my left knee to stop feeling like old-lady-knee.[/quote]
Oh I’ve spent some time in the back alleys of SAMA…
Moar training, to include rehab! Tittie talk is cool, but let’s get to the good stuff!
I had previously decided to skip this deload week and head straight into my recalculated 5/3/1 Wave 5.
But, I reconsidered. I’m feeling a little beat up and I’m headed into some rehab starting next week, so a deload week made alot of sense to me.
5/3/1 Wave 4, Week 4 – Deload Sumo Deadlift and MP Day
Sumo Deadlift
From steps, using 10# plates:
65# 1 x 5
85# 1 x 5
105# 1 x 5
110# 1 x 5
Barbell Hip Thrusts - Shoulders on Bench
135# 5 x 10 reps
This is an easy weight for me, so I concentrated on hitting full hip extension, not using momentum to swing the weight up and squeezing my glutes at the top and holding the extension for a brief pause. Done with perfect form, this weight ended up being challenging.
Military Press (done with dumbbells due to the tiny weight)
12.5s 1 x 5
17.5s 1 x 5
20s 1 x 5
Ho hum.
Chest supported rows
25s 3 x 12
And that was it. Left knee still old-lady-ish, lower back a bit achey. Trying to be smart, but I REALLY wanted to do pulls for reals today. Alas.