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Honestly, right now I'd just be happy to be back and normal in the gym by the end of the year. Background: I was extremely active for years before this, going to the gym at least four times a week and lifting heavy (my 5RM squat and deadlift were both over 400 and my squat on a good day could push 470), but since July of last year I've been sidelined with a bunch of pinched nerves in my neck. I've been doing physio fairly intensively since then, and I've had both good days and bad days (more good than bad lately), but I'm sick and tired of the bad days period. The knock on effect of this injury is it has made sleep difficult at times; right around when I started physio, I was maybe getting a couple hours of quality sleep a night, which had all kinds of very negative effects on both my physical and mental health. I'm 6'1" and 205 or thereabouts, but in the intervening year since I've been able to lift hard, I've gone a bit soft.
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# ¿ Aug 15, 2018 05:00 |
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# ¿ May 19, 2024 16:04 |
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Adiabatic posted:I am in South Boston, VA [see: bumfuck] all this week and also coming down with something sinus related. This will not deter me from finding a gym with a weekly rate, and infecting the good people of Southern Virginia so that we may hopefully begin the process of creating a race of genetically altered super-hilbillies. As a gym-goer and odd-time gym-worker myself, don't go to the gym when you're sick plzkthx. It's an excellent place to make everyone else who goes there sick, which is kind of a dick move.
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# ¿ Aug 20, 2018 23:54 |
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My physiotherapist has cleared me to return to the gym to do stuff other than rehab exercise. Get hyped.
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# ¿ Sep 19, 2018 01:17 |
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MrChips posted:My physiotherapist has cleared me to return to the gym to do stuff other than rehab exercise. Trip report - finally went and did some non-rehab poo poo at the gym; starting out easy on the machines rather than free weights for now. It went better than expected, but there is still some lingering issue through my left side, as I could literally feel the muscles tightening up hard through my upper back, shoulder and chest as I did some bench presses, as well as a couple of big ugly clicks through my T6-T8 vertebrae when I rolled out on the foam roller, but other than that, it was a pretty positive overall!
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# ¿ Sep 22, 2018 20:05 |
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Liquid Communism posted:Every day should be leg day. Squaaaaats. I don't do leg day because every day is leg day motherfuckers! (No seriously, upper body workouts are a pain in the rear end right now)
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# ¿ Sep 28, 2018 04:30 |
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I did a deadlift today.
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# ¿ Oct 28, 2018 00:22 |
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I had a setback with my neck and shoulder a couple days ago, so back to physio. Fortunately I think I've worked out what's triggering it, and that thing would be bench press.
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# ¿ Nov 5, 2018 04:03 |
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Shoulder joints are just plain poorly designed period. It's like the prime subcontracted them out to Chrysler or something.
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# ¿ Nov 14, 2018 05:23 |
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# ¿ May 19, 2024 16:04 |
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I wish my yes wasn't hosed up, because I'd show you kids a thing or two, with my 235x12x3 like it ain't no thang.
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# ¿ Nov 18, 2018 01:14 |