Training Archive: senexIn the 7 days ending 2008-09-12:
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Friday Sep 12 | ||
| Note | |
| (rest day) | ||
| Stress and socialization instead | ||
Thursday Sep 11 | ||
| Strength 16:00 [3] | |
| New PT exercises - only one set of everything because I spent the first part of the day stressing out instead of doing useful things.
These ones are pretty tricky to do right and I found myself forgetting the details from yesterday on one or two of them. Like on one, I followed the instructions on the paper (which I didn't remember at all) and my shoulders made a bunch of nasty crackling sounds. On another one, I think I did a couple of reps in the wrong, injury-inducing style, and the wrong bits of my shoulders hurt afterwards. I'm learning to pay attention to and make out which muscles are complaining where, and which are the inflamed bad actors and which ones are merely a bit fatigued. It's tricky! Legs tend to have nice pairs with one muscle going yonder and another parallel one opposing it. Shoulders have a lot of muscles going all over the place and attaching right next to each other. I'm really happy that one of the exercise is a lat pull. I'm weak all over. Stretch/ice/drugs? Sorta/yes/2x | ||
Wednesday Sep 10 | ||
| Note | |
| Microwave oven sez FOUR O_O | ||
| Note | |
| slept:5.0 | ||
| Couple of things:
1. I went to another physical therapist today, and finally remembered why good PTs > books. He was willing to explain everything to me, he showed me what's wrong with what I'm doing right now, and then he taught me how to do the things I need/want to do (pushups, swinging a pick, etc.) the right way. Also, the exercises he gave me are the best upper body workout I've had in a month. Also, I don't hurt after doing them even after forgetting two or three doses of antiinflammatories. This is the first time in a long time where I feel like there's actually a good chance I'll be able to work and stay in the Southwest to finish what I'm going to start. And that feels good. 2. I'm going to take a break from swimming for quite a while. And by swimming I mean competition strokes, especially back, fly, and free. It's probably possible to swim well without letting my shoulders go cattywompus, but the way I understand good technique, pulling and anchoring supereffectively encourages some shoulder movements that are really bad for me right now. So I'm not going to do them at all, even after I feel like I'm better (bah! sadness!) because I think I'll reinjure myself that way. I'll keep kicking, and when my shoulders stop hurting completely, I'll slowly add back sculling and then maybe, maybe breaststroke. I won't do anymore fun freeflyback pulliness untill I know that i'm already really strong. :( 3. I also went to a little creek today to which I've gone a couple times a summer most summers since forever. There were ducks there! I've never seen ducks there before! Not only that, they weren't your standard little brown ducks, no - they were huge big fat too-big-for-the-stream domesticated-looking ducks. Three of 'em, all different colors. I waded out to follow them, and discovered that though my boots are quite waterproof indeed, the bits of the stream I wanted to cross were deeper than my boots were tall. :D Shoes: Kworitu Wildlife: Ducks: 3 COM: 0 | ||
| Strength 25:00 [3] | |
| C • Sounds like good futures ar... 3 | ||
Tuesday Sep 9 | ||
| Swimming 50:00 [3] 1.6 km (31:15 / km) | |
| Warmup:
400m or so dolphin kick. No kickboard for any of this. Main set: 10 - I think? I'm not the best at counting - 100s dolphin (side down, back back) on the 3:00. Not super intense, not much rest. I missed one sendoff on #8 or #9, which is a point in favor of my workout-making abilities, but a point against my kick speedometer abilities. That's okay. Workout-making's much more useful that kick speed-metering. More: 100m easy back flutter 2x25 sprint back flutter Cooldown (ha!): 50m flop medley kick - mostly breastroke Not being able to use my arms is really disheartening, but all the dolphin kick makes up for it a bit 'cause it's so squiggly. I am a FISH! :D | ||
Monday Sep 8 | ||
| Swimming 30:00 [2] | |
| Went swimming with my mother at the outdoor pool. I had planned for an hour, but the water was super warm so I got out early.
It was full of really adorable little kids, though. :) Front back and side dolphin, a little vertical kicking, a little flutter, and 50 yards of freestyle. My shoulders felt just fine after the 50, but the left one started hurting about ten minutes later after I'd gone back to kicking, and the right one started hurting while I was in the store afterwards looking for aleve to make the left one shut up. First try to put my left arm up to wash my hair: failure, pain Second, third, fourth tries: no problem at all Wha? | ||
| Note | |
| (rest day) | ||
| No arm activities today on account of how upset my shoulders were after swimming. | ||
Sunday Sep 7 | ||
| Strength 10:00 [3] | |
| Left:
3x10 of the exercises I've been doing - 41oz Right 3x10 of the exercises I've been doing - 41oz 15+20+15 of IS exercise (the one I was doing with the bagel) - 1lb 3x15 straight arm lifts - 1lb - suspiciously harder than before? Stretch/Ice/Drugs? Yes/yes/1x - I had pretty decent reasons for not wanting to go get round 2. :/ | ||
Saturday Sep 6 | ||
| Swimming 50:00 [3] 1.5 km (33:20 / km) | |
| The pool has reopened and I am no longer the family taxi. A match made in heaven!
I feel like I should be doing this every day. Hopefully I'll be able to. Temperature warmup: 50 mixed whateverish flutter and back kick Actual warmup: missing? Main sets: 4x200m mixed kick on my back, mostly flutter :45 rest between each 200 - the whole thing done with the idea "this is distance" in mind. 200s, of course, are not distance, but long-slow seemed like the right way to approach them. Swam into the wall on my second 200. Wrong approach 8x50 dolphin anyhow (anymeans?), no board on the 2:00, these were relatively constant speed, I think 'bout 1:15 each on the later ones Short sets: 4x25 underwater dolphin on the whatever 3x50 back flutter sprint on 1:00 (missed all of 'em, going about 1:15 each, went on the 1:30 instead). My flutter kick is now slower than my nonsprinty, surface dolphin kick. Whoa. | ||
| Strength 10:00 [1] | |
| Same deal as normal except instead of the Bar of Newly Discovered Mass, I used a 47 oz jar of applesauce. These exercises are much more exciting with food!
Tomorrow I upgrade my right shoulder to the more intense, more elaborate physical therapy routine. Hurrah! Leftie gets to wait a few more days. Stretch/ice/drugs: Yes/25min of ice pack on the right, 2x 5 min ice cube massage on the left (once after exercises, once after my aunt assaulted it)/2x | ||