[quote]AlisaV wrote:
My current gym has a lot of painfully good scenery. Sometimes the scenery doesn’t squat to depth, but when they do, it’s incredible. [/quote]
HAHAH! Too true!
Weird about this shoulder - sucks when these things affect the big lifts. But I’m glad you’re finding some exercises that don’t hurt as much. Great work on the Krocs btw!
Betty, I hope this means that you are back to 100%! I think I tweaked my shoulder worse than you, and I probably don’t recover as rapidly as your young-assed-self.
Joe, if you were right here I’d smack you for saying that. You are squarely in the hotness level of big guys moving big weight. Videos don’t lie. Sadly, I just tried a neutral grip floor press with wimpy 10s and that still twanged my shoulder. My bench is screwed for a bit, I think.
The good news is that I just did 1 x 5 with the bar on military presses with only the slightest bit of tweaking. I think this lift might be back by the end of the week.
Alisa, now not only am I jealous of you because of the weights you lift. But now I have to imagine all your scenery too.
Maschy, I am now thinking I tweaked the shoulder doing the dip/ab crunch combo awhile back. The lesson I learned is: be very careful about trying new stuff and go easy on it the first time.
Not that I do any of this but do you do YWL’s or whatever they call that warm up protocol for shoulders that everybody else in 35+ does? Having to back off training just sucks.
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
Not that I do any of this but do you do YWL’s or whatever they call that warm up protocol for shoulders that everybody else in 35+ does? Having to back off training just sucks.[/quote]
Having to back off training SUCKS ASS. But I am listening to my shoulder, which says “don’t do shit that hurts me”. I warm up with dislocates. I’ve never had shoulder problems before, and I suspect I tweaked it just being stupid.
Note to self: stop being stupid.
My new belt is shipped and on its way!!! I am so excited.
Grrr. NOT EVEN THE MOTHER FUCKING 5s!!!
Smells like somebody’s “T” is def. kickin’ in these days!!! lol But seriously, that sucks about your shoulder. ART lady doesn’t have an answer, or are you still seeing her? It does make me wonder what kind of pushing ‘style’ you’re using.
In my younger years, when I did various pushes I’d let my elbows flare out (think guillotine bench) and I’d have setbacks like you’re talking about periodically and to this day I can still pop my shoulders pretty much at will!
I took a tip from the PL types and decided (for ALL pushing lifts: BB OHP, DB OHP,BB BP,BB IBP, it don’t matter if you’re pushing then it fits here) to keep my elbows tucked (basically make sure they’re never outside of your hands during the rep.) and that has all but eliminated anykind of joint-related shoulder injury I’ve had over the last 12-15 years! If its new to ya, it will take some time to get used to, but IME its worth it!
Well, have a great one and I hope your shoulder quits giving you grief real soon!
CDQ, thanks for the thoughts! My ART lady diagnosed me as a posterior delt strain with a bit of subscap impingement and is working on it. I think I did it being too over-eager on dips.
MY BELT IS HERE! It is this one:
http://www.inzernet.com/detail_belt.asp?PRODUCT_ID=FOREVER_BB_TAPER_BUCKLE
in forest green and it fits my body well. Snapper thanks for the recommendation. This tapered belt BARELY fits between the bottom of my ribs and my hip bone. A full-size belt would never have worked.
It is SUPER stiff, so much so that after putting the metal piece through the hole, I can’t thread the end of the belt through the loop. I recently saw this article about breaking in belts and will try some of these suggestions:
http://articles.elitefts.com/articles/powerlifting-articles/virgin-belt-users/
More breaking-in-the-belt suggestions appreciated!
mmm squat to depth scenery is a rarity much enjoyed in my neck of the woods also.
Kimba: that freakin tweaky shoulder sounds awful man. sorry if I missed it but how long have you been dealing with this?
[quote]kimbakimba wrote:
CDQ, thanks for the thoughts! My ART lady diagnosed me as a posterior delt strain with a bit of subscap impingement and is working on it. I think I did it being too over-eager on dips.
MY BELT IS HERE! It is this one:
http://www.inzernet.com/detail_belt.asp?PRODUCT_ID=FOREVER_BB_TAPER_BUCKLE
in forest green and it fits my body well. Snapper thanks for the recommendation. This tapered belt BARELY fits between the bottom of my ribs and my hip bone. A full-size belt would never have worked.
It is SUPER stiff, so much so that after putting the metal piece through the hole, I can’t thread the end of the belt through the loop. I recently saw this article about breaking in belts and will try some of these suggestions:
http://articles.elitefts.com/articles/powerlifting-articles/virgin-belt-users/
More breaking-in-the-belt suggestions appreciated![/quote]
Pix of you in said belt would go a long way in inspiring suggestions…
N., the tweaky shoulder has been around for about a week and a half. Its a bummer, but it will heal up. I can do chinups though, so no slacking!
Greeny, the belt has just been through the dishwasher and is a quite wet, tightly rolled up situation at the moment. Tomorrow it is going out in the sun to dry. I do plan on pictures then!
seconding the requests for pics in belt
The shoulder thing sucks. I messed up my right one when I was 24 by being stupid with my benching. The left one decided to join in about a year or so ago, but has calmed down since then. I still have to watch the right - it’ll never be 100% now. I do the dislocates too, btw. I’ve recovered a lot of the ROM I lost, which is good.
+1 on the belt pic!
belt picture me too! and um am I the only one who didn’t know you washed those in the dishwasher?
The belt is out on the back deck rolled up tightly and drying in the sun. I must say, the run through the dishwasher did that belt alot of good. It now conforms to my back (no gappage) and I can squeeze the end of the belt through the loop.
N., I got the dishwasher idea from the Dave Tate article that I linked to.
The first thing I thought of when I opened the shipping box, is that the belt smelled exactly like new figure skates.
[quote]nlmain wrote:
belt picture me too! and um am I the only one who didn’t know you washed those in the dishwasher?[/quote]
I didn’t know that either. Good thing to know though as soon I will be making the plunge to using one.
Wet leather allowed to dry in place = well fitted. That includes gloves, shoes or whatever. Albeit, I have yet to find anyone wanting to wear their belt until it dries! hehe
Inzer makes some great gear! Congrats on your new tool. May it serve you well.
Okay. Running a weight belt through a dishwasher. The point being to soften up the leather and get it to better conform to one’s body? I’m assuming you skipped the dry cycle? Did you stretch it out in the top rack? Did it affect the color? I’ve never heard of such a thing.
An old dog learning new tricks from . . . another old dog.
Woof.
When I first put the belt on me, the thing was unworkably stiff. I remembered Dave Tate’s article and re-read it. Unwilling to drive over my new belt with my car, I picked the dishwasher option.
I rolled up the belt tightly with the buckle inside the roll and secured the roll with a big binder clip. I stuck the roll in the top rack, put the dishwasher (without soap) through a normal cycle and went back to work. I remembered the belt just at the beginning of the dry cycle and took it out.
When I handled the wet belt, some forest green color came off on my hands, but not too bad. The color looks about the same as pre-dishwasher (maybe a bit lighter in spots), although the binder clip did leave a mark.
I re-rolled the belt with the buckle outside the roll and let it dry that way on the back deck for half the day, and then re-rolled with the buckle inside the roll for the rest of the day. Its totally dry now, I can buckle it, and it appears ready for me to use it.
Snapper, did you just take the belt out of the box and wear it? I couldn’t even get it buckled.
[quote]kimbakimba wrote:
Woof.
Snapper, did you just take the belt out of the box and wear it? I couldn’t even get it buckled.
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Yep.
But I have a lever rather than a buckle.
I left the “woof” 'cause I thought it was cute.
How thick is the belt? 10 or 13 mm? Both my belts are Inzer. The lever is royal blue and I love it. However, for regular training, I always fall back on my old dual prong. It’s nicely broken in like an old pair of shoes. I’d never heard of the dish washer trick. just as well I suppose as I don’t have one.
breaking in belts…
pegg rolled and re-rolled mine and held it together with a ratchet strap. round or two of that before i wore it… dont have any trouble buckling it, just getting it undone after ive lifted. so i walk up behind someone and thrust at them with the end thats sticking out until they realize what it is i need.
