Sunday, June 8, 2014

6/5/14 Thursday June 5, 2014 (OS, PM, KB warmup)

6:45am - Original Strength and Primal Move - 30 minutes 

7:15am - Kettlebell warm up

1/2K halos - 8kg, 4X each side / each leg (total 16X)
1/2K halos - 12kg, 4X each side / each leg (total 16X)
16kg Roll to press (TGU start) - shoulder cam shafts, each arm

Arm bar 12 kg, 2+2 

7:30am - Complete

Notes - I am writing this now on Sunday the 8th.  It has been a tough stretch here for sure.  I will include notes for each on the day.  For this one, I felt pretty bad this morning, and one thing I realized in hindsight is that I had overdone the work on the lacrosse ball - basically too much self-massage, and I think I hurt the tissue in my trap that has been hurting me as a result.  Too much of a good thing.  I realized that I have become too self-reliant on the foam roller and lacrosse ball at times and that I would be much better spent focusing time on movement exercises such as those from Pain Free, by Pete Egoscue.  

http://www.amazon.com/Pain-Free-Revolutionary-Stopping-Chronic/dp/0553379887/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1402286942&sr=8-1&keywords=pain+free+pete


Thursday evening I started doing several of the neck, hip and shoulder exercises from this book on recommendation of my acupuncturist, Dave Engstrom.  Dave is a really smart guy.  I started realizing that I had lost bilateral symmetry in various parts my body and had built all of the strength the last several months on a foundation that needed more attention to details.  Principally I think the old injury from years ago falling on my left shoulder a couple of times, which has been strengthened incredibly by KBs, needs focused attention all the time to ensure that I have proper mechanics and posture, ROM etc. in that shoulder.  I believe it has not been the case, in fact in my notes I mentioned for several weeks that my L OH ROM was not what it needed to be.  A chiro adjustment last week seemed to "fix" that I thought but I think what occurred over time is that my R lat/shoulder etc. was burdened by the poor ROM on the L side, probably pulled my R hip and lat around as well, and I suspect put strain on my R bicep, tricep, etc.  Damn it why do I have to realize this stuff in hindsight?  Anyway, on to the next post, more there.

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