Sunday, June 8, 2014

6/6/14 Friday June 6, 2014 (Pain Free exercises, KB warm up)

7:45am - Pain Free neck, hip, shoulder exercises - 60 minutes

8:45am - 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 (this is the main thing I ended up doing)

9:00am - Complete

Notes - Writing this on Sunday the 8th.  Epson salt bath the night before, Pain Free exercises after getting back from Spokane was fortunate. Flying and sitting are absolutely brutal right now, just brutal.  Did more Pain Free this morning, body seems to respond to it.  Had an appt with Dave my acupuncturist, body work specialist at 10am this morning.  Most important thing that came out of that was the frank discussion we had at the beginning of the session about some of my musings on how I got here.  Working hard, travel, poor stress management, sleep habits, etc.  He kind of shook me up though because he said "Chris, what are running from?" I had to look at him and I knew exactly what he was talking about.  I have been running away from doing the things I have to do so that Jill can divorce me, which is what she said she wanted nearly a year ago, last July.  The only tangible and concrete thing I have done is get the house refinanced to take her name off of it, which I did in March this year.  I spent some time awhile ago going through some financial stuff that our mediator gave us, but I have not sat down and penciled out a budget and simply presented a number to Jill that says 'this is what I can afford, let's agree and move on'.  I keep finding other things to occupy my time.  I talked to my mom on Friday night and realized this really is the root cause of everything for me, and my body finally just said "enough - it's time to do this" and got my attention in a major way.  So it is time.  

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.