Showing posts with label Back rehab. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Back rehab. Show all posts
More Rehab
I had only two training days last week and I continued to rehab my back. The last day was a squat day. I originally injured myself squatting, so this is the acid test. I thought it a bit strange that my deadlift days have gone almost unchanged. I feel little if anything and I've managed some moderate to heavy loads. Squat is a different story.
Rehab Day 8: Ahhhh
So I've had a chance to feel the effects of yesterday's workout. I had a chance to do DEEP squats with just a plate on each side. It felt great and I was tempted to move up to my warm up weight of 225. I did not. One of the keys to rehab is the ability to NOT push too hard. It takes some serious discipline because the first thing your ego does -- when you start feeling better -- is the psychological equivalent of the following dialogue:
Rehab Day 5
So it's been a few days since my injury and I've managed to make it through a twelve hour work day with minimal pain. Everything feels much better than this weekend, and I'm confident I will be back to moving weight in a couple of weeks. Aside from all of the advise from other gym members, the idea of age and strength has popped into my head a number of times today. Recently, the writer of a blog I read regularly had posted something about a senior strength athlete on his facebook page. I commented about how encouraging it was to see seniors still getting big lifts in spite of the many disadvantages. The author in return commented that there were no disadvantages to displaying strength at any age. He seemed to hint that one could simply work their way into whatever state they wished. While I have rarely been called a pessimist, I couldn't help but wonder if I had hit a nerve with the author and possibly others who read his work.
Unfortunately, I don't do well with telling people what they want to hear when it comes to fitness. That is why I no longer train others. It isn't easy to make a living when you tell people that it takes three to seven years to create the body they want. No! They want to hear that they can do it and have it PERMANENTLY in 90 days or less.
Here we go again!
Some of you may remember that I got a pec strain a few weeks back. I’ve successfully rehab’d that injury ( though I’m still not regularly benching over 300 yet). I am routinely back up in the high 200’s and feeling comfortable.
Unfortunately, I managed to acquire another equally (and much more common) strain in my lower back.
Before anyone jumps to conclusions; no it wasn’t during deadlifts.
I was doing very light, deep speed squats and I managed to lose my focus and tightness coming out of the bottom.
Keep in mind that I squat well below parallel. I had been working on technique and speed. I lost focus for just a moment because I was using less than half of my warm up weight.
I dropped fast into the hole and fell out of my groove. There was a slight wobble at the bottom and I felt a twinge of pain. That was all it took.
At first I wasn’t even sure it had really happened since the weight was so light. I went down again and had virtually no power coming up. I racked the weight and called it a day.
I was through.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Posts
