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[vicarz]

So on the plus side, I'm really busy with good things. On the other, I'm so-so-so tired.

I'm just getting close enough to real weights to be tired and having to be careful on what I do. Minor gym note to point out progress and lack thereof:
Deadlifted 315 for 5 with no real problem. However my grip was not strong enough for more than one overhand grip pull at that weight...maybe 2.
Squatted 225 for 5, and sadly it was not easy. I feel like squats have a lot more moving parts, and I haven't quite regained my stride on them yet. I was doing 275 for 5 when I could hit 315, so with a month to go on the recovery slope perhaps I don't need to rush. Curiously when I did 5x5 at 135 my legs were sore for days afterwards.
My OP and bench are kinda lame, but slowly coming back to life. I guess you really do need to do leg work to get upper body gains.

But it's starting to lightning and thunder outside. I might treat myself to the first storm of the season by standing in the big window to watch the explosions in my olympic wrestling suit.

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[shutterbug.livejournal.com]

Hey, remind me what stretches you are supposed to be/are doing for your hip? I'm working if your range of motion is stifled somewhere and maybe that's something. As for other hip (from later post, reading backwards, sorry), I wonder if it hurts because you aren't supporting your weights evenly distributed between both legs (50-50) because you are protecting the repair?

So some food for thought.

[vicar.livejournal.com]

I do them :)
Yoga shit - cat/cow, cobra (rock back on heels, alternate)
cross legs, let knee down
Cross legs, pull knee up with ankle on it
Cross one leg, lean over on it with the other leg back

Stuff like that - I don't recall the names of most.

What you say makes sense though - I am unsteady; that's why I'm starting slow and trying to keep the volume up instead of just shooting for strength.