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[vicarz]

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Gold's Ballston installed a heavy bag with plenty of room around it for whackery! This makes me happy and sad since my stupid elbows are getting worse rather than better. Nothing seems to make them better. Ok, ok...I have to go see the damn doctor. But I still want to put wraps, gloves, rumpjope, and interval timer in my bag.

Came home to the odd smell of cement. While I was out it seems the roof started leaking, and it filled the small bedroom wall with little pockets of water trapped between the plaster and the plasticy paint. Roofers will come in tomorrow. I crawled onto the roof to find it still has 3" of slush on it - no point to shoveling with that much mess and no idea where the leak is. The seam runs far...I see water soaking through in the living room too.

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[samaritan1975.livejournal.com]

You may have hyperextended your elbows.

As for the bag- see this? This is me, being envious. The gym here on my work campus used to have a heavy bag in the corner; they dropped it for an abs machine. I'd rather have the bag. DAMMIT, now I wanna just toss everything out of our garage and water up the Wavemaster...

Why don't more gyms have a bag? Just one? And tell me true- do you feel like a badass, walking out with those handwraps on? Just a little?

[vicar.livejournal.com]

I hurt the left one boxing - I know that, but the right one - and the way my bicep feels all tight, and burning, as a result mystifies me. I got this condition while doing what I was told was rehab - using wrist curls with relatively high reps and slowly increased weight. Sigh.

Bags are awesome, but people don't know how to use them and abuse the hell out of them. They are always hit with stupid form, nobody ever moves around the bag (I'm more than a little relieved that they put up a bag AND did it right), they kick with any type of shoe on, and my favorite was hitting the bag WITH HAND WEIGHTS.

I feel slightly like a bad ass except there are some clearly trained fighters in that gym too - and I am sure they will see how bad I suck by watching my bag work. On the other hand, the other 80% that don't matter will think I'm either a badass or showing off. I'm neither (but it still is fun).

[samaritan1975.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, I know what you mean. It's funny, though- here at work, when I used to use the bag... I got some odd looks and a few questions when I'd come out in handwraps ('How do you put those on?', 'What do they do?', etc.- curiosity rather than mocking. It was neat. :) ).

[vicar.livejournal.com]

I usually use bag gloves, but was using hand wraps to toughen up on form and my knuck-skin. I'd hit it for maybe a round or two before I'd start to bleed a little and have to stop (because that's rude and bio dangerous I think).