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Lol! you and the hubby are totally cute! You’re pretty tall, so he must be huge. He looks like the corn-fed type. So hot!

And if I may, you are looking amazing! Nice pins, indeed! Damn! Whatever dietary changes you’ve made are really starting to show. Looking lean and tight :slight_smile:

The vids are fantatic as always. Your couch made me lol btw. What goes on chez Nadia? Hm…?

Anyways, your training is looking great as always. You haven’t missed a beat - minus the hip and ham. Is that recurring? You were smart to back off. Its true, sometimes you can train through pain, but sometimes you’re just, well, really in pain. lol! Hopefully its nothing serious. I’m with Kimba, get that kink worked out by a pro, if you can. If you want to be an athlete, you’re going to need regular tuneups from a pro - you work your body different from just a regular couch potato. You need the extra TLC :slight_smile:

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Koub: I’ve never seen a chiro. I’m a traditional western medicine kind of girl. So, my first step would be to go to a sports medicine doc to get a diagnosis. My 2 powerlifting meets/ 2 marathon dreams for next year are probably not realisitic for me. I have bad biomechanics for running and have frequently injured myself at the marathon distance. But, I don’t really buy in to the endurance and strength don’t mix dogma.

Cal: I sure hope you find a way around that foot. How frustrating it must be for you to be forced to simply wait.

Kimba: Yes–no ART or CHIRO. I’ll try to keep an open mind about that. But really, I would go to a doctor first. I saw a sports medicine doc last summer for my knee… and he was great. The trick is to find a dr who is an athlete too, and then he/she won’t default right away to the 6 week off prescription. And if my doc recommends soft tissue work, I’d get it,along with a rec with respect to who to see.

Patch: I’m not familiar with the MOD website. And I certainly can’t parse out the difference btw going into the “pain cave” and feeling the pain. I was being some what facetious when I said stretching should hurt. I really don’t know. I do know that the level of flexibility that gymnasts and dancers are trying to achieve requires a concerted effort to obtain. And in my experience, achieving that level hurts to some degree. It’s a pain meets relaxation kind of game. I also suspect (but don’t know) that the level of flexibility that I’m trying to achieve may be counter indicated in strength sports and may be a part of my problem.

Masch: You’re too funny. So glad to see you back here. I can’t wait to read about how your knee is progressing. And how things are going at your new job…post more!

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DLS

Felt fragile today. Not a good mental state for DLing. Days like this I really wish I had a coach or some training partners to help get me out of my head. I could have used someone else’s energy for sure. But all alone, all I could do was channel my inner Bela Karolyi. “You will do your dls or you will dl all day–until your hands are bloody, your hips and back broken, your hamstrings shredded…” So, with the promise of punishment hanging over my head if I chickened out I did the following:

Some number of sumo reps @ 135. Hip felt ok with these. Hips also rose early I think.

COnventional:
Barx10
135x10
185x5
195x3
215x10 (this is a pr because I’ve never pulled 215 for reps- good enough).

Stalder HLR 5 sets of 5

Gms 5 sets of 10 just the bar.

Tkes, hip rehab stuff. And done.

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215 x 10!! Wow. Just, wow. You may have been feeling fragile, but you kicked ass anyway. Very nicely done.

I understand the Western medicine thing. I did it exactly your way until I had run through a sports medicine doc and two physical therapists – all great – who couldn’t completely fix my patellar tendonitis/ITB stuff. Then I tried my ART girl, who happens to be a chiro, out of frustration and the mindset that doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result is the definition of mental illness. Definitely start with a visit to that great sports medicine doc and go on from there.

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[quote]kimbakimba wrote:
I understand the Western medicine thing. [/quote]

Me too. I’m a natural skeptic and find the idea of couch potato people needing a regular adjustment to be preposterous.

HOWEVER, I tried ART out of desperation several years ago and am totally sold on my practitioner. He knows how I am, though, and often pulls the anatomy textbooks out to show me and explain to me what he’s doing and why. He was the one who diagnosed a tear in my shoulder and encouraged me to push for an MRI after the first orthopedist I saw said I was fine.

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Pr when you don’t have your game head on?!

like a BOSS! :slight_smile:

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If that’s how you lift when feeling fragile, then bloody hell. You are strong, lady.

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I am the same with western medicine. not that science doesn’t have its (considerable) problems - but i do think it is the best methodology that we have for sorting the shit from the useful stuff. that being said, i’ve actually come around to having a lot more respect for at least some of what i considered to be ‘alternative’ modalities after learning about things on this site… and maybe after learning more about pharma / efficacy of treatment studies conducted within science / medicine for my thesis…

e.g., they haven’t done any studies on using a foam roller for ART (to the best of my knowledge). so instead of science we just have reports from athletes. they do studies on ‘squats activate xxx muscles’ but unfortunately nobody in the study did an actual squat (they did weird quarter curtsey things).

i think that ART and chiro etc is as good or bad as the practitioner… I think that sports med is a really good first port of call - especially if the doc actually is involved in some kind of sporting activity so has at least some first hand experience with the activities…

N8tive and Cal put me on to this:
http://www.mobilitywod.com/

I’m finding problems I didn’t know I had and I’m hopeful that fixing those will fix problems that I do know I have where more direct work hasn’t helped so much.

Enjoying your vids as always.

I don’t understand what he means about the pain cave. Does he mean don’t go into the pain cave as in don’t make things hurt or does he mean don’t go into the pain cave as in don’t avoid making things hurt?

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Thanks Kimba. Ineffectiveness is exactly what would cause me to venture out and try something different. I hope I don’t have to, but there isn’t much that I wouldn’t do to keep running.

Snap: You and Kimba with your ARTISTS–if only I lived nearby–I’d see your person(s). My reluctance stems a lot from the process of finding someone I can trust.

Frenchie: Fear is a powerful motivator. The old do it right the first time or pay the price…

Thanks Cal. But what the hell? I’m a lady again?! Fuck.

Alexus: Your comment about ART/Chiro being as good or bad as the practitioner is spot on. If a good one can help you, then a bad one can hurt you. That’s a real concern for me. With regard to the “pain cave” I don’t find it to be a helpful metaphor. But, if we flush it out, caves are dark and scary places where your senses are on heightened alert. Stretching hurts. But that pain must be met with relaxation in order to progress. I think that’s what he’s trying to say. Breathe.

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Training:

Sunday: 4 mile run. Meh. Came home from that and ordered new shoes. Thinking back, my hip problems started while I was training for a half marathon in Feb. I blamed the gymnastics, but I could have been the running. I have been running in Newtons which are a step above a true minimalist shoe. For most of my running life I have run in a motion control shoe, because I pronate. I am going to go back to that type of shoe to see if it helps.

Monday: only exercised my brain

Tuesday: MP/ pullups

Couldn’t sleep: 4 am 4 mile run.

Pullups: 8 sets of 10; BW 121.9= 9,752 lbs pulled. I did well with the first 5 sets. Felt strong and pulled them nicely. Last three sets were a struggle. Having pigged out all week last week, I tightened the diet up on SUnday. That coupled with the morning fasted run probably left me more carb depleted than I’m used to. I was shoveling oatmeal down btw sets (the joys of training at home) but that shit is not fast acting enough. Get that girl a cookie. STAT!

MP: I didn’t give a fuck. I only cared about the pullups. Didn’t set my numbers. Just made shit up. Weak.

Barx10,
55x10
60x8
65x5
barx10

Rehabby stuff.

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I trust Nicole (my ART/chiro) enough to adjust my neck, which is something I’m wary of because if done wrong it can fuck up the arteries in the neck and cause a stroke. Having had two parents suffer a stroke, it’s my biggest fear. So I guess that speaks enough about how much I trust her. Before I found her I visited a chiro down the road and I didn’t feel at all comfortable with him. So yes, finding someone you gel with is really important.

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I hope the new shoes help your hip issues. That would be quick and easy and awesome. What did you order?

Every time I come over here, I leave thinking “I need to train pullups”.

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caves are dark and scary places where your senses are on heightened alert. Stretching hurts. But that pain must be met with relaxation in order to progress. I think that’s what he’s trying to say. Breathe.

oh yes, that does make sense. thank you. i really didn’t know what he meant by that comment.

fingers crossed for you that your shoes help.

i guess i’m wary of ART and chiro etc too. because there are lots of craptitioners out there… mind you, same thing for GP’s etc… but yeah, i’m a bit nervous myself of how hard to push the ART. yelped today. think the hip flexor stretches i’ve been doing are consolidating one hell of a knot in my right hip flexor :frowning:

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Jeez Cal, I’ll never get chiro now! Sorry about your parents…

Kimba: New shoes = tanks. Brooks addiction. I’ve run in brooks most of my running life. I think the less is more shoe is ok for me if I keep my mileage under 25 miles a week. But I’m trying to do more than that now. And because I run on unfriendly surfaces, the cummulative stress might be too much for me. It’s worth a shot anyway.

Alexus: Hips are tough. I’ve never had problems with mine before this year. But, now they’re angry. I don’t know if I should stretch more or less, whether my problems result from a faulty running, lifting, or gymnastics movement pattern. Or maybe it is just good old fashion over use. Probably what I really need to do is just back the fuck off of them and leave them alone for a bit. But, I’m going to give my present routine (modified by new shoes and a course of anti inflammatories) a few more weeks. I have a half marathon in October. After that, I’ll consider rest.

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Insomnia rules in my house these days. The problem is that I don’t even want to sleep. So, when I wake up and the clock says 2 am, and I was planning on getting up at 4, and I know that if I fall back asleep getting up at 4 is going to hurt–I just get up. +2 hour windfall.

Gymnastics gym was closed yesterday so I did basically nothing–forced myself to stretch and foam roll.

I’ll run this am. Mileage depends on the hip. Probably 4 or 5.

Postus interruptus: kid just got up with a bad dream. He dreamed that my husband and I gave blood and then had waffles for breakfast. And ate them all! So, when he got up there were none left.
The nightmares of a growing boy.

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Insomnia sucks…
I’m up early because of it this morning. My little eye peeps popped open at 4am and my brain was like ‘oh, you’ve had 6 straight hours of sleep, time to get up!’

Poor kid!! no waffles, oh no!

My daughter has been getting up a couple nights a week about 230 am, for no apparent reason. She just camps outside our door until I finally shoo her back off to bed. It’s like she’s sleep walking…

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I know my hips get grumpy the more I try and mobilise them. Sometimes you need to back off.

Waffles! Ha!

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now I want waffles… his dreams are better then mine. I had ones depicting War of the Worlds, but never saw the movie until I was like 12.

insomnia will kill us all slowly. I get it when I’m super stressed out. that’s when I know I need some me time and lock myself away to the mountains.

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Mim: Waffles (sometimes w/ berries and cream or sometimes w/ peanut butter and syrup) and ALWAYS bacon are a regular Saturday morning breakfast at my house–except when my husband donates platletes once a month. Then mommy has to cook. And well…

Cal: Yeah–backing off makes sense. I feel a little overused or maybe I’m just feeling my age.

Koub: Stress is the likely culprit for me. My September is not the best. After that, things should settle down to normalcy for me. Fortunately, being exhuasted on Thursday worked to my advantage–I got over my writer’s block and got a lot done. Of course, some of it is absolute shit but words are flowing again. And well a lot of what I do is bull shit anyway.

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Let’s see where am I? I ran 4 miles on Thursday morning in my old shoes. Came home and decided that it was definitely the running that was pissing my hips off. New shoes came in the mail. I’ll give them a go on Saturday.

Today: Squats.

Bar x10
65x10
95x10
115x3
125x3
135x10

front squats
95x3x3
65x10

HLR 2 sets of 25. Second set fried my grip.

That’s it. Dropping BBB leaves me feeling unaccomplished. I’m going into my workouts without a plan, and just doing what I can do. This allows for under-performance. I need expectations. My training feels sucky right now.

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Diet–kept it pretty tight all week. This morning, I was under 120. I haven’t been that low in awhile. I have no plans to stay there through the weekend though. It’s going to be a good one.

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do I hear someone missing BBB? lol. words of shit is better then no shit. much like constipation. ahahaha. anyways, good luck with the new shoes. finding the right pair makes a huge difference.

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Koub: Missing the satisfaction of BBB, not the pain. I’m going to get back to that program in Nov. From now until the end of Oct, I’m focused on pullups, running, gymnastics–BW bullshit.

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Training: 12 mile run in the new shoes.

Felt pretty good through the first 8–probably more to do with the naproxen sodium than the shoes. The suffering began after that. My hip hurt. I was hot, overdressed, and without water. But, I really wanted to redeem myself from last weeks aborted run. So, I kept on. Slowed down. Relaxed my breathing. Said nice thngs to myself.

EDITED TO ADD: Fucking submit button.

FOr 4 miles I thought about waffles and bacon, my foam roller, and an ice cold glass of water.

Made it home. Waffles were gone! I’m living Henry’s nightmare. At least there was bacon.

Sat in a tub of ice. That’s suprising unpleasant even in the summer. But, anything to stay in the game. Hip be damned. I’m not counting myself out yet.

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I feel your frustration. I’d back off the mileage, even though I know it hurts you to do so. It’ll hurt more if you try to run through it and end up with an injury that requires a long lay off.

I’m in the same boat with my foot. It isn’t painful, like it was in July, but I can feel it so I know it’s not really ready to start back at long runs. Oh and on my three mile run the other day, my sciatic pain came back. It’s not there when I don’t run. It wasn’t bad - just a mild discomfort that I can ignore - but it was there nonetheless.

Sucks about the waffles! Funny, though.

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running didn’t sound enjoyable.

I’m down to taking aleve almost every morning before I hit the gym. wtf