cha59's log
05-08-2013
, 10:34 AM
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Your music selection rocks. Do you throw on an album, or do you have any genre or full shuffle system? I've always been an album person myself, especially for Tool.
I noticed you don't go down as far as I do when I RDL (and you also use way more weight
). Do you feel the stretch in your hamstrings the way you do them, or is that not necessary?
I noticed you don't go down as far as I do when I RDL (and you also use way more weight
). Do you feel the stretch in your hamstrings the way you do them, or is that not necessary?
My MP3 player is pretty cheap, but the speakers I have it plugged into are nice. I just set it to play all the music I have for a group. As Yugo says, sometimes I'll skip through some songs before attempting big lifts.
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Cha dicks around switching up music all the time. Tbf he's pretty efficient at it. But sometimes I stifle a laugh when he's queuing up a different Tool song for a warmup set. Of course, he stifles laughs when he sees my warmup set weight when I throw on 2.5s and/or microplates. So the joke is really on me.
he has an iPod or whatever hooked up to speakers fwiw. I assume he just has a bunch of full albums on there and switches between them.
he has an iPod or whatever hooked up to speakers fwiw. I assume he just has a bunch of full albums on there and switches between them.
05-08-2013
, 07:36 PM
We have some sort of stretch rack at the gym. Not sure how to describe it. It's a bunch of wooden dowels/cylinders lined up horizontally. Anyways, I found I can put my foot up on one of the bars (as opposed to 90 degrees in the video) and make the stretch work. I noticed that the higher the angle of my back leg, the more it pulls my quad.
05-11-2013
, 11:50 AM
05-11-2013
, 01:47 PM
05-11-2013
, 02:02 PM
05-16-2013
, 02:13 PM
Hey Cha, no workout in 6 days, what's the hold up?
So a lot has happened with my injury and I'm very curious to see what you have to say since you know a lot more about this stuff than I do. I went back to the doctor and was able to get a referral for a PT. We've had 2 appointments now, and the injury is starting to feel much better. He thinks that it's something in the lower back, and the pain in my leg is coming from there. He basically has me sitting with a lumbar roll whenever I'm sitting to keep me in extension and also doing this thing where I lie on my stomach and push myself away from the floor to extend the low back (10 reps of that every 2 hours). I tried to write up my understanding from what we talked about today in my log, and I'll paste it here:
Any thoughts? Does my understanding make sense? Anything going on here that jumps out at you?
Thanks in advance!
So a lot has happened with my injury and I'm very curious to see what you have to say since you know a lot more about this stuff than I do. I went back to the doctor and was able to get a referral for a PT. We've had 2 appointments now, and the injury is starting to feel much better. He thinks that it's something in the lower back, and the pain in my leg is coming from there. He basically has me sitting with a lumbar roll whenever I'm sitting to keep me in extension and also doing this thing where I lie on my stomach and push myself away from the floor to extend the low back (10 reps of that every 2 hours). I tried to write up my understanding from what we talked about today in my log, and I'll paste it here:
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The way I understand it, in the center of each disc there's some viscous fluid-like stuff that gets harder as you get older. He thinks there's some fissure in the back of the disc so that lumbar flexion pushes this fluid out towards the back. Then when I stand up and walk that's where the pain comes from. As I move around and walk for a bit, the pain goes away because the fluid is being pushed back towards the center. So the lumbar roll is supposed to help keep me in extension (or at least not flexion) as much as possible to let the fissure heal. The 10 rep extension things he has me do is to try to more forcefully push the fluid back to the center.
Anyway, he said I should notice more improvement over the next few days, and hopefully we can begin with the next phase when I get back from vacation where we will start putting me into flexion so that the spine heals in a functional way.
Anyway, he said I should notice more improvement over the next few days, and hopefully we can begin with the next phase when I get back from vacation where we will start putting me into flexion so that the spine heals in a functional way.
Thanks in advance!
05-16-2013
, 02:23 PM
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05-16-2013
, 03:09 PM