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Originally Posted by Leigh P.
Etana-Given your history of injury, sensitivity to water retention, and general stress/age issues have you thought about taking a month to do no specific training and just take some fun classes, walk, and say screw to the work outs? I bet you would drop some edema and body pain within the matter of a week. 2 cents.
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Leigh, Thanks!
Doing the resistance work has made a huge difference in getting up and down stairs and general strength-recovery over the past 6 weeks. It has really affected my measurement reductions. Today for the first time I felt stronger and steadier doing the step ups and rear lunges (that don't affect rotator cuff at all)...
All,
1. I've reduced the OPT resistance to 3 days instead of 4.
2. I'm not nearly approaching 70% of that acronym about the most you can lift with 1 rep. RMR or something. Really keeping the weights relatively light. 2/5# on most; and 2/20# on deadlifts, and 20# on DB Pullover.
3. I am NOT going to do any exercises that hurt my arm. I think maybe the substitution exercises I will choose are exercises specifically to strengthen the rotator cuff; I've seen some on youtube
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Originally Posted by Leigh P.
...taking a month to do no specific training and just take some fun classes, walk, and say screw to the work outs? I bet you would drop some edema and body pain within the matter of a week. 2 cents.
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What I'm doing in general is trying something for 2 weeks and re-assessing rather than blindly going on with poor results. Because I have more knowledge and am dealing more from numbers and action, and less from emotion, cheating, failure, my spirit is staying really positive. I will give your suggestion some consideration. Perhaps at week 9 OPT rest week, I will take 2-4 weeks' rest. I really relish the strength and energy my body is feeling from the resistance work I'm doing.
Today going down the escalator down to the metro, I found myself skipping down the stairs, and was thrilled...
I think what happened was that OPT A1 and A2 were fine. Then last week, beginning OPT B1 and B1, I noticed some concerns, and this week, I'm looking at them closer to see which I need to stop doing.