No Crust Racing

I've contacted him through a number of channels with the same message and can see he was active on SAU this morning so he has enough time to check threads it seems. Was also sent as a PM. That aside, it's also gone to his FB and phone.

It's almost the end of the week and I'm yet to hear anything. Just a quick reminder to let you know that there's just over a week left including today until I am forced to take further action. I hope you've progressed on your outstanding work orders and that these two cages are completed and shipped or are about to be.

They only had a remedial masseuse there and from what I could tell she was fairly green. Still, she worked on it and it wasn't twinging when I walked out. She thinks is just a strain between the hammy and the upper head of the calf muscle (gastroc). She massaged it and "cupped" it and said get crazy with the foam roller and stretching as it was quite tight and fairly firm which is always what people say when I have an issue. I might head back to Matt soon for a form check as my gammy leg still throws some things out and the left leg may be taking the brunt of the load.

I think he means out of line with each other, not one foot actually behind the other toe to heel.

Like I said to Boz in the main thread just now, whatever works for you and you enjoy is what you should be doing

Bodybuilders are normal people, just like power lifters or race car drivers or firemen, they all just train to be good at something. If you don't like the training style, trying something different. There's a bazillion ways to train. It's pretty Power lift centric around here because we have Markos actively contributing, you could frequent another forum and see everyone advocating different training styles and in the end, you'll still look better and be stronger and fitter than you wold if you did nothing so just try things until you find what you enjoy most. IF you enjoy it, you'll ave a better chance of sticking to it and conquering one of the most difficult aspects for some, the mental challenge of slugging it out again and again.

Markos mentioned he has some circuits, iirc one of them cannot be done by a mere human.

Your sleep and diet must be decent then, or you are not even close to your power potential. Which is completely fine depending on what your goals are.

Haha! That's me

Do your own thing then?

Birds: In your quest for 200, did you consider mixing up the reps sets to a 5x5 or a 3x8 instead of sets of 10 at the lower weights? I know you have physique aspirations, but I'm inclined to think that if you weren't burning up so much energy on the earlier lifts with so many reps you'd have the 200 already. Great work either way, just a suggestion. It was something you guys pointed out to me when I had a plateau on the bench at one point, I'm now 25kg above that point.

It was just good timing in a way, I needed a deload week, come Friday I'll have had 7 days off, (but have been working on the car...) I'll get the rub today, lift tomorrow and see how I feel over the weekend on my 2 day break (though will be at the car again lol)

See above, going at 3.

How are you finding the volume training? Recovering OK?

Got my appointment for 3.

Mentally I'm a bit all over the shop at the moment with a lot of questions about why I'm doing this etc etc, but whenever I stop I always have that burn to start again, even if it's only been a week like it has been this time. I've said before I might buy some new plates, to give me something to aim at, but I'm also thinking I might mix up the squat stuff and see if I can build reps at say 100kg to get a foundation in place as I'm such a shit squatter.

Skipped Gym again last night and didn't walk this morning, Hammy still twinging when I got up so I'm going to see a Myo today if I can get in. AT least my forearms/wrists and my bad ankle are feeling better. I may just gym Friday anyway as I can feel myself wasting away and getting weaker by the day, yes I know it all comes back, but it'll take 1-3 sessions to go back to where I was. Taking time off hasn't helped the hammy so far anyway, maybe a little but not much.

Speaking of BN, Birds what's the latest?

I'll need a myo ball or something, tennis ball doesn't cut it and I can't get enough weight on it to make it unbearable with the roller. I'll keep plugging away.

Oh not by your scale no, no way at all. Its very minor in my opinion but persistent. It's just a niggle that twinges regularly but I'd like to avoid it becoming a bigger problem. I only said grade 2 in terms of something I was reading that stepped up to above a basic strain when you felt it walking as well, which I do. But not by the standard you are referring, no.

Have been, I may stop stretching it as anything I read says if you have discomfort walking that's a "grade 2" which sounds stupid but just means it'll take 1-3 weeks to recover with minimal usage. Oddly it doesn't really bother me when gyming, but I just thought it was a good idea to sort it before going heavier.

Question from the Infirmary for people with experience in hammy strains. When looking at my left (good leg) from behind, the main tendon on the outside of the leg keeps twinging and carrying on, sometimes just walking, sometimes bending over to get things. What's the process for fixing these sorts of strains? It only pulls a little up into the "meat' of the hammy so to speak. I've been foam rolling it and doing stretches. I skipped gym Monday and may skip tonight as well as I've got some other niggles at the moment and haven't taken a full week off in a while.

Hammy is still twinging for no apparent reason, does it when I walk, does it when I sit, just random times also. Have been stretching and manual manipulating my ankle recently as asked by the physio and getting out of the car this morning it twinged decently and I had trouble walking up the steps to work, not feeling too bad now but geezus for a second I thought something major had gone wrong. It still has a way to go. I may take tonight off also and just see if I can get any improvement on this hammy.

Nice work.

Question for people with experience in hammy strains. When looking at my left (good leg) from behind, the main tendon on the outside of the leg keeps twinging and carrying on, sometimes just walking, sometimes bending over to get this. What's the process for fixing these sorts of strains? IT only pulls a little up into the "meat' of the hammy so to speak. I've been foam rolling it and doing stretches. I skipped gym last night and may skip Wednesday as well as I've got some other niggles at the moment and haven't taken a full week off in a while.