Gym And Supplement Discussion

[Birds]

Yeah gonna suffer DOMS hard, but should be worth it. If I find the load too taxing I'll cut down. I just wanna exercise as much as I can to make up for lack of upper body movements. Need to keep the calories off.

[God_speed]

props for dedication mate

[TTT]

Birds. I would bench if it were me.

[L33SH]

Yeah gonna suffer DOMS hard, but should be worth it. If I find the load too taxing I'll cut down. I just wanna exercise as much as I can to make up for lack of upper body movements. Need to keep the calories off.

I don't think you need to worry about this, especially next week.

[No Crust Racing]

If you injured yourself badly I'd be reluctant to lean on it without at least giving it a weeks rest.

Better yet, see your chosen therapist and see what they say.

Seems like you're busy enough squatting anyway

[rev210]

Tried an empty bench bar in the same session and it didn't present any pain...I could be back to upper body sooner than I thought

Playing it safe though. Do we think it's worth doing movements like bench with an empty bar for rehab? Or just wait until completely healed and get back into the weights?

Feeling pain or not, isn't a good indicator with the rotator for recovery. The pain is there when the swelling goes up and that can take a few minutes to an hour before you start hurting. Hence your bench blew it out but, you didn't feel it till later on a relatively light excersise. You can have deterioration in the muscle without feeling it as pain, so be carefull.

testing very carefully the 'weakness' is the way to go. You want the strength to be at least that of the unijured side.

Bench press isn't a rehab movement for this injury. Don't bother with it. Even the empty bar bench doesn't address anything related and you just look like a feeb doing it.

[rev210]

Birds. I would bench squat ,if it were me.

fixed

[L33SH]

Birds just needs to be patient I think.

[Birds]

I am patient. Getting pretty sick of that waiting room though!

Ba dum tssss

[L33SH]

lol

[Dani Boi]

I don't really get sore legs the next day after squats, don't know if it's to do with lower reps though. 3-4 times a week.

[Birds]

I don't think you need to worry about this, especially next week.

[jangles]

I don't really get sore legs the next day after squats, don't know if it's to do with lower reps though. 3-4 times a week.

its always 2 days after for me.

[bozodos]

I don't really get the sore legs unless I do walking lunges

[UNR33L]

I don't think you need to worry about this, especially next week.

lol

[Mangune]

its always 2 days after for me.

I find this also, but hamstring soreness always comes on the next day.

[God_speed]

Pretty much same for me these days, next day DOMS after legs.

Banged out 3 sets of 1RM DLs today 180kg, 4 plates, so stoked!

[TTT]

Birds. I would bench if it were me.

That was supposed to say "wouldn't"

[No Crust Racing]

Copy/paste from my build thread as questions get answered quicker in here.

For some reason, my back is worse than it's been so I either did something Friday night or sleeping in shit hospital chairs/not sleeping is giving me grief (Kate has been in pre-labour for the last 3 days so we've been in and out and not sleeping very much). No gym on Monday as a result so I've had a good 3-4 days off.

Not even a stretch is helping me and it's pinching randomly when I'm not doing much.

I've noticed, with squats, that if I go below parallel my body tends to lean forward at the bottom of the motion which I'm wondering if that's causing some kind of cantilever effect on my lower back as I come back up. Or is some form of forward tilt at the bottom of the motion normal/acceptable?

Extra info: A podiatrist friend came over on sunday and did some tests, said my legs are 1.5cm different lengths, specifically from the waist down so nothing from the back as she measured that too. I put orthotics back in my shoes (just off the shelf ones) on her advice on Sunday but I "think" my back was already playing up before that.

Edited April 16, 2013 by ActionDan

[jangles]

the whole lower back is the waist down, so which is it?

what does your chosen specialist think? the spine and pelvis can be put back into alignment in one session if its just slipped out.