Stay safe.

Weight: ?!?

KB Swings 1p
2x15

Had a week long trip. Now I have some sort of sinus issue. I'm not sure if its due to this dirty ass fan blowing dust in my face all night while I sweat in my 80 degree bedroom or I was infected with a virus riding the bus.

Who knows. Maybe I'm past my best by date and slowly falling apart.

Weight: ?!?

FS
40x5

Bench
40x8x3

Iso work

Weight: 78

KB Swing 1p
2x15

At this point just doing anything that vaguely passes as exercise is gonna move the needle. Should prob read the advice I gave YTF when he started "exercising".

Weight: 77.2

FS
40x5x3

Bench
40x10
50x5x2

Shoulder feels much better now that I'm not being an autist and doing my exercises, which I likely need to do forever if I want to stave off shoulder surgery for as long as possible.

Nice work getting back into the routine! As someone that has done a decent amount of work with ortho implants, shoulder surgery specifically sounds no beuno, even in instances like this where they're not replacing the joint, so aiming your autism in the correct direction seems prudent.

I have a friend (an actual friend - not me) that is having some shoulder pain when overhead pressing (incline benching is fine); he can't describe it very well except to say that it feels like the tendon is moving over some bone. He is a dipshit and won't go to a PT. What exercises are you doing? Short of making him swear off direct overhead work a month ago and just introducing him to very light bottoms up KB presses today, I'd like to be able to give him some stuff to do that could potentially move things along.

I needed three ortho visits (with two different guys, first was into PRP kek) to figure out what it was, then a cortisone shot along with 4+ months of PT to really drill down what was going on. In my case it was chronic bursitis which is only treatable by actually going in and removing the inflamed bursa. I guess they cut a couple holes, then dremel the **** out of it. I'd suggest seeing an actual specialist. This weird idea that they're gonna try to schedule them for surgery the next week is pretty ******ed and inhibits people from getting real treatment.

All the exercises are pretty much variants of the standard rotator cuff strengthening exercises. I use a purple band to basically do any manner of regular stuff. There really isn't any specific exercise (beyond one that doesn't cause pain) that is better or worse. Just keep the scapula retracted and depressed and goto town on whatever you like. I basically just do a few sets of face pulls and then whatever random **** I feel like after if I get the urge. Obviously this isn't the PT routine I was given, but since I'm now in the "staving off surgery" bucket instead of "probably get better" bucket, I don't think lying facedown doing isometric holds with 4lbs is gonna be the deal breaker.

Weight: 76.8

KB Swing 1p
3x20

Goblet Squat 1p
10

Thanks for this; I'd just had him doing banded stuff and facepulls and he's back to doing overhead stuff as of a few days ago. Hopefully you keep progressing positively.

Most bursitis is acute assuming that is what he has. If the pain goes away and he doesn't have any weird sensations, he's fine then.

Obv a two week trial of advil, rehab, then doctor for random owies is gonna be the pro move. Need to take notes and clearly communicate with the doc so he knows what is going on.

Weight: 77.5

FS
45x5x3

Prob the best squats have felt in a long time tbh.

Bench
40x10
50x8x2

Random iso work still gets ignored. There are hammer strength plate machine knockoffs I'm playing with. The isolateral pulling machines will prob replace other back work for the near future. Since we have not had any good **** posting in a while, does anyone else have poopy issues after consuming large amount of fiber? Beans/corn (in particular corn chips) have this effect. I feel like Billy Mays comes out and yells "But wait, there's more" 30min after I have a BM.

Thank you for reading a modern version of a goon FYAD post.

Weight: 76.7

KB Swing 1p
3x15

Had friend visit. Too many beers. Too little sleep. Traveling again soon. Semi-retirement and its associated schedule not good for exercise.

Glad you had a good squat experience.

If you decide to make your exercise important then it will be. If you don’t, then it won’t.

Pretty much and it is rather low on my priorities atm, in case that wasn't obvious.

Weight: 77.4

FS
40x5
50x5x3

Found an isolateral hammer strength machine for bench. Will likely try to use this going forward and stay in higher rep ranges. Also found the row machine, so will likely only be using the isolateral row and pulldown machines. Based on today, it seems I don't have meaningful strength differences between the right and left outside of my actual rotator cuff muscles and rear delt. (Rear delt is substantially smaller on injured arm.) I still do my usual isolation work for the injured shoulder, abs and whatever else strikes me. I still do not log any of this cause it is completely irrelevant.

Dead hangs have helped my shoulder a lot. Maybe worth trying, maybe your arm will fall off. Not sure about you, but it has helped me. They don't feel great while doing them, fwiw.

Could you elaborate a bit more? Like a 30s deadhang with both arms? I'm doing a decent amount of vertical pulling. (In line with the modicum of overall work I do) But seems worth a try, I could definitely try isolateral hangs and see if I have a strength imbalance.

Thanks for the tip.

Bilateral, pronated shoulder width grip. The idea is to relax as much as possible (basically try to do the opposite of scapular pull ups).

I've worked up to 5 or 6 hangs of 20-30 seconds every couple days. Mostly because it is pretty boring once you get used to it and I can't see the point in doing much of anything more than that.

I started out doing them without my full weight. Feet on the ground or on a pull down station. Just did more as my tolerance for them increased.

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Forgot to log yesterday

Weight: 76.6

KB Swing 1p
3x20

Yesterday

Weight: 76.1

KB Swing 1p
4x20

Wow what a coincidence. dead hangs helped my shoulder as well; had some posterior delt pain while doing most pressing and vertical pulling for almost a year. Syndr0m also had good results with them. I have exceptionally weak hands/grip from using straps all the time and hooking my dl warmups so I did them without straps. Let us know how it goes.

I'll be traveling for the next month so could be a while till I get some semblance of actual repeated dead hanging, but will report back.

9/29
Weight: 171
Dead Hangs: 10/12/15s
Goblet Sq: 30lbs x10

9/30
Weight: 169
DH: 17/20/30s

10/4
DH: 30/30/30s

10/5
DH: 30/30s
Pullup: 3/3

Guess the first weekish was not horrible. But quickly went down hill. Now I have back tightness that is inhibiting walking probably due to one of the worst cases of jetlag I've ever had.

Dead Hangs seemed to help (smol sample), so I'll need to find somewhere to do more. They are exceedingly boring so I wanted to find monkey bars at a playground to use for something a bit more entertaining. However, it appears those are a relic of a bygone era.

Weight: 77.2

KB Swing 1p
3x12

FS 1p
10