I know this sounds crazy but a foam roller is worth triple what you pay and it’s available 24/7.
Barry, had the wife use a make shift roller last night and work the trap with it. She used an actual rolling pin. Felt good after but think i better get some foam.
This morning
Bench
135,225wu,275x8,315x6,335x4,355x2,2,2
Hammer Incline
90wu,180x10,230x8x3
pec dec
90,100,110,120 x8
Tates
30,35,40,40 x8
elbows out tri pushdown
120,140,160,160x8
Driving home from the gym at 0430 this morning and this strange stuff started coming from the sky. By 0900 we had about 2" of snow on the ground. Most of it’s already gone but weatherman says we’ll get some more tonight. Close the state.
Ugh. Calling for the same stuff up here. We close the state here as well.
It’s bright and sunny and mis 60’s here on the mountain. I’m gonna take the bike out for the first spin of the year. We need the snow, it’s been as dry as I’ve ever seen it in 20 years on this mountain.
thats not snow.
the North east coast is expecting close to a foot Im sure the midwesterners will tell us thats not snow either.
Hel Barry is right I should have mentioned
the foam roller thing, I cant live with out it.
You want to roll your thoracic Eric Cressey among others has a great youtube on it.
Backsquats do not so nice things for my neck.
do you sleep on your face?
or with your head turned?
sometimes that can really bind the neck.
kmc
How’s it going, hel? I liked the early morning BP/Tri workout, nice numbers; obviously the thumb is coming along! I wish you luck in your quest for a physician with some common sense, a nice bedside manner, some smarts, and an appreciation for what you’ve done and what you plan to do in the near future. I have been blessed with mine…trained as an Osteopath in the Navy, a member of my gym when Betty & I owned BodyImage, and aan all-around nice guy. If one exists, there are others…seek & ye shall find! If the massage doesn’t work out, way back when, there was some articles published about self-massage(not what you’re thinking)…teaching one to be able to massage muscles trained to hasten recovery. maybe google can point you in the right direction and take it from there! I wish you the best on all fronts!
Art
We’re going to get 18-24 inches of snow here. Still snowing 1-2 inches an hour as I sit here. Four wheel drive today.
Dry as a bone here in the People’s Republic of Utah. But I heard on the radio this morning that the southern states were getting it, and immediately thought of Hel.
I made a roller out of a piece of 2 inch pvc pipe with a towell duct taped around it. Cost, $2. I never use it, though…
Google “Self-Myofascial Release”, its a free e-book by Mike Robertson, frequent contributor at Elitefts.com Shows how to use the monster stick and tennis ball for self-massage. pretty cool. I haven’t used it yet, cuz I’m stupid and lazy, but I did read it…
Thanks to all for the advise. Art, got the wife massaging the trap every night. Actually seems to be working.
Got a call today from the patient affairs rep. Friday, my day off, 0700, MRI, at local hospital bioimaging office. (Glad to hear they use the open MRI type machine). When I’m through there, go directly to the office of a certain Orthopedic Specialist. We’ll see how it turns out.
Went straight to the pool after work and had a nice relaxing swim.
sounds like a plan…
I am younger and less banged up than you…
( no on shot me.)
and I have , have have to do the prehab, foam
swim even cardio to stay rugged.
kmc
[quote]kmcnyc wrote:
sounds like a plan…
I am younger and less banged up than you…
( no on shot me.)
and I have , have have to do the prehab, foam
swim even cardio to stay rugged.
kmc[/quote]
It can be arranged.
(you’re the one who wanted a stalker…)
Early this morning prior to Doctor’s appointment. This video, if it shows up, was suppose to be my 385x3. Trying out my new cell phone with video and all that. Seems I have to set the length of video and it had cut off. So this is my 385 liftoff and down. I’m still at the bottom having never come up, stuck there for eterrnity.
Edit: Either we can no longer post vids in our logs or I just dreamt I did squats this morning. Guess its strickly you tube form now on.
Youtube is a bunch easier, definitely.
Even I learned how to use it.
so much for Hel Mac320 and his loch ness squats!
Short attention span alert. Long post.
After legs this morning. MRI and doctor’s visit. I’ve found the true Buddha. Ex Army doc. Desert Storm, Panama, Somalia, Rawanda, Haiti, etc. Mid fifties (really young, like me), does triathelons.
After swapping war stories and who, what, when, and where’s he says,“get naked Chief and let me see what I got to work with”. After “someone didn’t like you, nice work here, and stop yellin like a bitch it’s suppose to hurt” we got down to the specific problem of my neck and trap.
Asks me what kind of lifting and poundage I was doing, Bench, “that’s some good weight”(ego goes up), cleans and dead, “very respectable”(ego up a notch), Squats,“you kind of suck at those” (deflate).
Then he goes out the door and comes back with the newest piece of medical equipment, a broom. “Show me how you bench”. “Now show me how you squat”. “Thought so”.
The offical medical terminology for my conditon is “you’re lopsided”. My left shoulder drops lower than my right. More importantly when I bench, my right shoulder is farther in front, higher, than my left and my left shoulder blade doesn’t contract in towards the middle of my back as much as my right.
This is putting more stress on my right shouilder, aggrevating the trap, pulling on the neck.(When I lose form in the bench it’s always my left soldier blade that collapses. Also have a habit of untucking my shoulders and kind of pushing my shoulders forward if I stall near lock out) “What about my sqauts?” “They suck”. Thanks!
Too much scar tissue in the left real delt so I’m never going to have good rotational flexibility there. So what’s my MRI show? “you got a fucked up left shoulder, surprize. But from you’re old wounds. Lifting isn’t hurting it. Have a hell of a lot less mobility in it if you weren’t lifting”.
So the RX. Either start doing flat back, no shoulder tuck benchs or re-learn to bench. Start with low reps and weight that won’t make me lose the left tucked shoulder blades and on a wider bench if I can. Concentrate on keeping shoulders level. Squats, make sure when I get set up I’m not dropping my left shoulder to get the bar set up. “and do more assistance work for your legs” (a comedian).
Chiropractor? “Can’t fix your problem which is scar tissue and lousy form but they can sure make your neck and trap feel a lot better”.
Back to the drawing board, again.
sounds like you got a great doctor.
Straight shooting medical community folks are hard to come by.
is the shoulder that is lower maybe one
that a mailbag rests on?
kmc
Is that Doc taking paitents? I think I would commute! A mixed bag report but a good one all the same.
Did you ever consider using a bench training shirt.In any event you are one strong mutha!
[quote]hel320 wrote:
Short attention span alert. Long post.
After legs this morning. MRI and doctor’s visit. I’ve found the true Buddha. Ex Army doc. Desert Storm, Panama, Somalia, Rawanda, Haiti, etc. Mid fifties (really young, like me), does triathelons.
After swapping war stories and who, what, when, and where’s he says,“get naked Chief and let me see what I got to work with”. After “someone didn’t like you, nice work here, and stop yellin like a bitch it’s suppose to hurt” we got down to the specific problem of my neck and trap.
Asks me what kind of lifting and poundage I was doing, Bench, “that’s some good weight”(ego goes up), cleans and dead, “very respectable”(ego up a notch), Squats,“you kind of suck at those” (deflate).
Then he goes out the door and comes back with the newest piece of medical equipment, a broom. “Show me how you bench”. “Now show me how you squat”. “Thought so”.
The offical medical terminology for my conditon is “you’re lopsided”. My left shoulder drops lower than my right. More importantly when I bench, my right shoulder is farther in front, higher, than my left and my left shoulder blade doesn’t contract in towards the middle of my back as much as my right.
This is putting more stress on my right shouilder, aggrevating the trap, pulling on the neck.(When I lose form in the bench it’s always my left soldier blade that collapses. Also have a habit of untucking my shoulders and kind of pushing my shoulders forward if I stall near lock out) “What about my sqauts?” “They suck”. Thanks!
Too much scar tissue in the left real delt so I’m never going to have good rotational flexibility there. So what’s my MRI show? “you got a fucked up left shoulder, surprize. But from you’re old wounds. Lifting isn’t hurting it. Have a hell of a lot less mobility in it if you weren’t lifting”.
So the RX. Either start doing flat back, no shoulder tuck benchs or re-learn to bench. Start with low reps and weight that won’t make me lose the left tucked shoulder blades and on a wider bench if I can.
Concentrate on keeping shoulders level. Squats, make sure when I get set up I’m not dropping my left shoulder to get the bar set up. “and do more assistance work for your legs” (a comedian).
Chiropractor? “Can’t fix your problem which is scar tissue and lousy form but they can sure make your neck and trap feel a lot better”.
Back to the drawing board, again. [/quote]
You might consult with an Active Release Technique therapist about that scar tissue. There might some (incredibly painful) ways they can improve the tissue quality.
At least he didn’t decide to put you down.