Laughing my ass off @ hamrope. Is that a common phrase or a hallowed original?
Magic Dr for the win!
[quote]mom-in-MD wrote:
^YAY!!!
My Butt; it is coming alive with just the little extra attention I’ve been giving it. I’m not looking forward to sitting on it for 4 hrs today.
I got an appt. with my magic Dr this afternoon.
Driving ABSOLUTELY KILLS my back/neck/knees…
Already loaded on Aleve. [/quote]
Gosh I didnt know your butt wasn’t alive 
I surely would have given it HELLA EXTRA ATTENTION!!!
its never too late
[quote]scj119 wrote:
Laughing my ass off @ hamrope. Is that a common phrase or a hallowed original?
Magic Dr for the win![/quote]
Well I made that up at the gym last night since Dashy asked… but I can’t promise I’m the first to think of it.
lol
“yay, my butt is coming”
ahahahahahahahahahahaaaaa
[quote]Spock81 wrote:
[quote]mom-in-MD wrote:
oh, I’m sure you have lots of interesting things to say!!!
And every time I see you, I just want to tackle you…is that weird or are you good with that?
[/quote]
Ohh fine by me! No complaints here 
[/quote]
Can I get in on this?
sooo, I’m flying solo with training my butt? no one wanna help huh? sokay.
ok, so I had my second appointment this afternoon to go over lab results/discuss how I was feeling/ask questions, etc…
She is upping my armour and allowing me to try a slow released/compounded T3.
I’m also to start on: VITd3
Iron
Selenium
Magnesium
Zinc
Plus my regular multi
I follow up next month after I get new labs.
She also put in for more antibody tests for celiac.
Probably the second best thing aside from getting the actual biopsy.
I don’t need fancy tests to tell me how i feel when I eat the stuff but it sure would be kinda nice to know if I should be avoiding it entirely forever and ever.
But I don’t want to not eat it if it’s not medically necessary.
Pizza is delicious.
Aside from that, she does not believe I have an adrenal issue since I am handling the incoming T3 so well and she doesn’t feel like I have a pro/estrogen thing going on since my TOM is regular and I don’t turn into total crazy PMS lady.
The hashi’s is what it is because it just is.
I asked if it’s possible that I’ve had this for longer than I thought…
I remember not feeling like myself(THYROID-Y but didn’t KNOW IT!) shortly after I had my son(erm, like 11 years ago!!!) eek.
And the fact that I had PRE-e with both kiddos and my youngest was born with a heart condition. If you have an untreated thyroid problem it’s not good when you are trying to grow another human!!
Anyway…moving forward now and feeling A LOOOOT better!!!
no, Ive just been unable to type anything worthwhile today…
will have somethin tommora
[quote]Spock81 wrote:
[quote]mom-in-MD wrote:
oh, I’m sure you have lots of interesting things to say!!!
And every time I see you, I just want to tackle you…is that weird or are you good with that?
[/quote]
Ohh fine by me! No complaints here [/quote]
Is this how you do it Mim. It sounds like a sneak attack.
Anyways, i hope things get better for you.
Regarding training around knee pain, as was said you definitely want to keep the knee tracking straight. When i’ve had knee injuries and it hurt to do anything, i limited my ROM a little and i focused as much as i humanly could on keeping all the movement in the muscle. This means lighter weights and repping things out say 10-20 reps. Want to avoid things that sheer the knee, like lunges(which can lead to the knee leaning inward also), deep squats(knee has to come forward over the toes, causing sheering)and any movement that is similar to deep squats like hack squats for example also walking backwards pulling something. I would say depending on the pain and severity of what you have going on, you should be able to do most movements with proper form and focus. Maybe excluding squats, but some of the single leg things can be done and can have some nice restorative effects if done properly. Blood flow and feel is key imo.
For cardio i would not do any sprinting or anything with alot of jarring or too much impact. But elliptical could be good, non traditional things could work as well such as tire flips, tire strikes(if you still have your tire), swimming, running in shallow part of pool or lake if soft bottomed and/or close. Db swings can be okay and you would have and can limit ROM and still get what you want out of it. Biking can be good, but it has to be the right bike and the right ROM otherwise it may be too much.
If knee is tracking inward that would more than likely mean a weak vmo muscle maybe weak abductors and hips also. So things like single leg extensions and single leg presses with your focus on the muscle doing the work and feeling it should help. Getting blood into the surrounding tissues(good warmups and generally higher rep work) will help alot. I either read an article or watched a video stating alot of these things and i just simply cannot find it right now.
Also foam roll the IT band area all the way from knee to hips as well as all over the leg and see if you have any knots in the legs and destroy them. Can’t stress enough the soft tissue manipulation, that can make a huge difference. If something is pulling on a joint because it’s tight and etc, loosening it up by foam rolling, rolling a baseball to the area and etc is awesome. You could try knee traction as well such as this video. Could help take some of the pressure off the knee kinda pull things apart a little.
Balance is good as you know. Like Rockula said, hitting the individual hamstring muscles with focus for a particular area is awesome. I’m particularly fond of standing single leg or lying leg curls, mostly target the biceps femoris(like Rocky said you can tweak it a bit). Seated leg curls can target the semimembranosus and semitendinosus pretty well. For hip adduction and abduction, i like the machines pretty good and i do higher repetitions in the 15-20 range for feel. Bands can work well here along with the above as long as it is the right tension and it is setup properly.
For hip rotation, i would first try eliminating any of the soft tissue issues that may be hindering rotation. I would simply rotate outward with leg straight. There are a few things you can try such as this video which looks pretty good.
/Novel, sorry if it sounds lecturish, i know you know your stuff Mim, regardless just my opinion and a few things that have helped my knee issues and good luck. Bottom line, knee pain sucks.
woooo MiM!
Hey Mims
This is like the go too log for knee stuff.
I usually just do what I can, or what doesn’t hurt too much, yours are worse off than mine though.
Count Rocks hammie exercises sound great and Hercs knee traction thing sounds like it would feel great, will have to try that one.
[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:
I think you meant “horro”
honor isnt my thing…[/quote]
Tsk. Kids these days…
Whatsamatter, Rock? You never do the toast in the middle of the bar at the top of your lungs?
“Here’s to honor! Gettin on’er and stayin on’er!”
Hi, Mim!
Brand new log Mims!
I’m in.
Stopping in to see how it’s going.
How would sldl or sumo wide sldl work for you? Just some glute / hamrope work.
SPanks you ALL berry muches!!!
HR- I need to re read and digest all that but very informative!!! wow! Don’t be a stranger!
Patch- consider yourself tackled…just don’t try any of your moves and let me win.
DF- Can I have a pony next time?
CH- your so cute you little Beaver!(is that what that is in your avi??) I do what I can…but want to do more so I have to do boring stuffs forever to do the cool stuffs. Hopefully MAYBE!!!
N- consider yourself spanked!
LP- always a pleasure when you stop by. Imma try sumo wideRDL tomarrah. My hammies still toasty from tuesdays Single legDLs!!
Yeah it’s a Beaver but I think it’s a young one, which ups the cute factor. lol
Yeah I do some stuff that hurts my knees and then judge how bad it was for the knees the day or days after.
So sometimes I can do stuff that hurts a bit but have it not be painful the next days. Kind of an ongoing experiment. :-/
I try to avoid any knee tracking at all. That seems to be an aggravater for me.
Stumbled across some Betty pictures from my younger days…ahh
Dis a 155-160ishLB Betty. For those that were concerned I’d look too “thin.” I think not.
And of course my HILAR Glamour Shots!
Remember that inside the Malls and stuff?
I did a ‘photo shoot,’ for the hubby when he went on his first deployment. And it was our 1 yr anni. We made up for it hella when he got home and made a baby eventually.
Bestest surprise of my life though.
I guess the main things I’m having trouble with is putting it all together for the leg stuff. Also keeping on top of my swole for the upper bod AND diet/cardio to widdle my middle.
I’ve never done a split for very long…if I did it was during the school year cause my kids hate being dragged along every morning to the gym in the Summer.
Typically I’ve stuck to TB training(don’t hurt meh!!!) and having those days in between to do cardio/yoga/nothing
is awesome. Soooo, I think I’ll stick to that???
Ok that’s settled.
So I guess I do a little bit of everything each time I hit the gym?? ON non-weight days I can focus on rolling/extra stretching/bw stuff.