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"Time and patience are the 2 elements that most people don't include in their plans."
-Alan Aragon
"The scale simply tells you how much the earth loves you on a particular day."
-Ogedei (Keith)
Wow.. so you also tweaked your back and have a rib out.. ouch!
Maybe you need to install a candid camera so your friends can keep an eye on you literally?
Not sure entirely what is wrong, only that I am not well. Whenever I try to do anything "work" releated, things go wrong. My joints all start to crack and the muscles on my neck get tense to where I cannot move my head.
The good news is that I can feel now (after nearly two weeks of lying about) very specific areas that are "painful" (if you will) which is allowing us to start to root cause some of the issues. I have tighness in my chest and my shoulder girdle as well. I also have pain in my low back which goes up my left side and ends at the base of my head. Down the right side of my leg (hip) and my right knee also is out. David suspects that a nerve is being messed with and that a trip to the chiro is all I really need right now to set me on the right path.
We'll see... I just set up a 6:30PM appointment. (Keep fingers crossed)
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Whoa! The coolest thing. I am in training in a different Intel facility than I typically work and I just ran into one of the bodybuilders from my gym. I had NO idea he was an employee here. More he is an employee very closely tied to one of my programs so it is a good networking tool for me. What a crack up and complete surpirse.
And on the "101 reasons why NOT to invest in real estate" topic. I just got a call from the plumber who is working on my rental about 1.25 hours from my primary residence. He was hoping I could run to town to give him money for the job he is doing because he is out. So I am supposed to drop my job and run into town (2.5 hours round trip mind you) because HE is out of money! Un-fucking-believable.
And finally on the "why you don't hire strangers to manage your website"... A friend of mine gave me his password and username to his website domain and asked me to do some simple fix for him. I logged in and went to the site only to discover that whoever he hired to update his website last time took every single working file he had on his domain and moved them to their domain (which of course is locked down). This includes all the stuff he had there previously not just the content they added. So he no longer has control of any of his stuff. He cannot even change his phone number without having to go through these people to change the phone number. Un-fucking-believable.
Sort of how things have been happening for me recently. Lots of mind-boggling events and/or surprising events. Just when I think I have this "life" thing sort of understood too. At least I am being mentally entertained while I am down and out physially...
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Chiro was amazing. Pelvis/SI was very out which was causing low back, right hip pain and subsequently right knee to swell. I can now bw squat with no pain and I walk completely differently.
Rib put back in = no more chest/scapular pain
Low back issues are just a mild dull now.
This morning I feel like a run.
First time I felt like a run since July 4th.
I am taking this all as light at the end of the tunnel.
I go back on Thrs for follow up and then will be cleared to lift again.
Life is good!
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SI pain sucks (a lot of my year has been devoted to it), as for the rib just hearing about it being out of place hurts. So glad it's better.
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"Time and patience are the 2 elements that most people don't include in their plans."
-Alan Aragon
"The scale simply tells you how much the earth loves you on a particular day."
-Ogedei (Keith)
HA HA HA! No! I promised the chiro/Alan/David that I would error on the cautious side this time. I am being 100% sane about this one. I only did the bw squat motion a few times throughout this day to make sure that it still feels better. The hip joint is still sore and the knee is still a bit stiff. In fact my whole body feels a bit like DOMS hitting me (run over by a truck) but it finally is just DOMS and not nerve sort of stuff. It feels sort of good. I also have free joints which is an incredible feeling. I still have some shoulder stuff going on that I will get looked at on Thrs.
Today I am focusing on stretching, foam rolling (I swear) and icing the area of trouble points. I did take a walk at lunch and it was awesome. This one scared the shit out of me. I have never been so disabled that I can remember and I still don't know if I am out of the water. But for today all signs are pointing to me getting out of this one with relatively little overall damage sometime this weekend.
I will still have to reset and restart my training program. I will have to come back slowly and carefully. But at least I know with some certainty I will come back and that makes my day!
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hey ms program manager - have you completed a root cause analysis for this derailment so you can take steps to mitigate the risk in the future?
Are you kidding me? I have looked at this from every angle that I possibly could the past 10 days (the whole first week while getting fussed at from various people for working through pain). I swear I NEVER worked through pain. The pain did not happen until I was ordered to stop moving and just lay around for awhile.
I have beat my head on the wall over and over on this one question. As near as I can tell, it is really a result of over training ending with or maybe starting with the 20 hour work ordeal. The real question is did this start before my 20 plus hour marathon of heavy farm work in 95 plus degree summer heat? If I only had normal amounts of feeling I think I would be able to answer. But I don't so I have to work with what I got.
So here goes my future plans for avoiding this in the future... (Alan came up with some of these and I did not argue)
Future plans =
1. Mandatory deload weeks at week 4 of my cycle
2. Monitory rest weeks (at least 5 days) at week 8
3. Hire out all intense farm work and focus on bbing goals
4. Do not do any physical labor/exercise in 90 + degree weather
5. Monthly maintainence Chiro visits (so I don't have to feel if something is wrong)
6. If farm work cannot be hired out then feed it properly and count it as a workout instead of rest days
I am taking other ideas if you have them...
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If farm work cannot be hired out then feed it properly and count it as a workout instead of rest days
Am also pleased with the idea of having you do a deload week once every 4 weeks. A lot of people find themselves petering out after 6-8 weeks once they start lifting really heavy. On a deficit that feeling starts sooner.. so 4 weeks sounds like a perfect idea.
yeah one of my friends back home gave me the nick name bootylicious, and I like it. I love have a big butt!!! but... i do want to improve what is there so it is nice, not just big.
I think that they might make a self tanner that can help correct your green coloration, as for as the hulky part, is that what lifting is all about, lol
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"Unwillingness easily finds an excuse."
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Karla! You know you can email me when you are injured, right? Sounds like you are on the right path ... keep stretching and foam rolling ... it really will make a difference!
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So here goes my future plans for avoiding this in the future... (Alan came up with some of these and I did not argue)
Future plans =
1. Mandatory deload weeks at week 4 of my cycle
2. Monitory rest weeks (at least 5 days) at week 8
3. Hire out all intense farm work and focus on bbing goals
4. Do not do any physical labor/exercise in 90 + degree weather
5. Monthly maintainence Chiro visits (so I don't have to feel if something is wrong)
6. If farm work cannot be hired out then feed it properly and count it as a workout instead of rest days
Karla! You know you can email me when you are injured, right? Sounds like you are on the right path ... keep stretching and foam rolling ... it really will make a difference!
Thanks dear Julie! I was (just today) thinking about you as I have another complication that popped up. I'll PM you about this as I get a tiny bit more information. I am scheduled to see an Ortho this week and may start PT after that for this one. Uuuugghh!!!
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Karla - wow! I take a week off the interwebs and I miss all of this. I like the recovery plan and the new guidelines Hang in there and take care of yourself.
If you are lucky, you won't generate another one of those capitalized dumbass comments
No dumbass comments this time around. I am being ultra careful. The chiro appt was good and bad on Friday. Good because she said she felt confident that I did not herniate a disc (that was the BIG worry there) and good because she said that the hamstring pain I was experiencing was just tight muscles that would go away in some time. The bad was that she wants me to lay off for 2 more weeks. Alan was happy to hear this and supports it fully. He kept telling me I was moving too quickly. How the heck can he know in CA?
The chiro appt on Friday made me immediately groggy. I slept 14 hours or so between Friday and Sat nights and then I slept another good 8 hours last night. When I was awake yesterday, I could hardly move. I walked like a granny. Everything was tight and aching. The chiro says that is the muscles getting used to the new way of being. sigh.... I really don't like the whole chiro thing but of all the things I have used so far, it seems to be the winner for speed and cleanliness. Accupuncture takes a close second.
Tomorrow I go to the ortho just to get a clean bill of health (I promised Alan I would do this) before going back to the gym. It makes sense given my inability to feel.
So I am taking things in stride. I am actually not upset that this happened so much right now. In fact I am glad to learn the proabable cause of some of the issues I have been facing. I have learned through this experience that it isn't the low carbs that cause me to feel so down and moody and that I can live on less than 100g a day pretty easily actually now. (you have to go through that initial hell but once through that...) I am looking forward to starting back up and seeing where I am.
I am not freaked out about how this is going to affect my plans or goals. I am simply going to pick up and focus on coming back before I worry about plans or goals. In the meanwhile I am moving my certification for work in this space to fill the void of worrying about goals and plans for my body. LOL! I am not concerned even a tiny bit that I am losing LBM because I am pretty convinced that I put on a good bit of meat this past year and it isn't just all dropping away right now. In fact I am (in general) pretty happy with me today. The recomping that I do for shows is really just for fun.
Today I went to a swim/picnic party at a neighbor's house and one of the people there snapped these....
Next week I turn 46 years old...... I am okay with that....
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? I'm thinking your head has some cinder block in it.
Uuuugghh!!!
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