Insipid navel gazing in 2d
May. 12th, 2015 06:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vicarzMaking a gym tag, why? I can't remember...I started this post 3 days ago and never wrote it. I was excited about the gym at the time.
Today was fun in the gym - I could overhead press 135 for 3, zippity do dah. I did 145 for 2, so it seems I'm either back to able to do 155 or close to it. However I had to bail on benching as I'm having a lot of shoulder pain. I'm spending a ton of time old-man-yoga-shitting my legs "(you're doing it wrong)" but not much on my upper body which is a mess. I don't dust my house, or stretch my upper body - this needs to change.
I was actually going to take this week as a down week but so far...maybe next week. My stupid butt (non-surgery side) is still hurting so Mike may be right that I should go to the doc. It's not getting worse but that's not enough. It's not holding me back, but that shouldn't be the standard.
Exciting is my squat. It's weaker, sure, but I've done a butt...a bunch of research on butt wink. I think I've been hideous, and with all this research (thanks Brett Butteras) I think I've found some things I was doing wrong - combined with yogashit I may have fixed some serious form problems. Or I'm deluded only to face an ugly reality when I'm back to real weight again. I found I was leaning back too far, and for my great depth I was really just curving the spine at the bottom (and as my video showed, craptastic ankle roll. Squatting without weight while I try to regain my original flexibility in the surgery joint has me re-flattening the feet and really fighting to keep the arch in my back...I might only squat to parallel, but better that than cheat to get lower. Who knows what this will mean on squats...could be fun!
At the same time I'm...considering what I do. How strong do I have to be? With so many people at and beyond my level it's less inspiring to go for pure strength - plus I'm getting fat. I don't mean not a fucking washboard dance on the box in town fat, I mean having to buy new pants fat. Nothing anyone seems to mind, but pants!? No way. Also, I realized in rehab I suck at cardio - bad, and I think it would help strength training to up my ability to work out longer without being winded. If not, and if it takes away from strength a little, I could always cut off at 3 10-minute miles and be happy with that - and I can't even do that. However, I can pick up a treadmill...
Today was fun in the gym - I could overhead press 135 for 3, zippity do dah. I did 145 for 2, so it seems I'm either back to able to do 155 or close to it. However I had to bail on benching as I'm having a lot of shoulder pain. I'm spending a ton of time old-man-yoga-shitting my legs "(you're doing it wrong)" but not much on my upper body which is a mess. I don't dust my house, or stretch my upper body - this needs to change.
I was actually going to take this week as a down week but so far...maybe next week. My stupid butt (non-surgery side) is still hurting so Mike may be right that I should go to the doc. It's not getting worse but that's not enough. It's not holding me back, but that shouldn't be the standard.
Exciting is my squat. It's weaker, sure, but I've done a butt...a bunch of research on butt wink. I think I've been hideous, and with all this research (thanks Brett Butteras) I think I've found some things I was doing wrong - combined with yogashit I may have fixed some serious form problems. Or I'm deluded only to face an ugly reality when I'm back to real weight again. I found I was leaning back too far, and for my great depth I was really just curving the spine at the bottom (and as my video showed, craptastic ankle roll. Squatting without weight while I try to regain my original flexibility in the surgery joint has me re-flattening the feet and really fighting to keep the arch in my back...I might only squat to parallel, but better that than cheat to get lower. Who knows what this will mean on squats...could be fun!
At the same time I'm...considering what I do. How strong do I have to be? With so many people at and beyond my level it's less inspiring to go for pure strength - plus I'm getting fat. I don't mean not a fucking washboard dance on the box in town fat, I mean having to buy new pants fat. Nothing anyone seems to mind, but pants!? No way. Also, I realized in rehab I suck at cardio - bad, and I think it would help strength training to up my ability to work out longer without being winded. If not, and if it takes away from strength a little, I could always cut off at 3 10-minute miles and be happy with that - and I can't even do that. However, I can pick up a treadmill...
