I've had a history of leaving posts behind but once in a while, I'll have something to blab about :)
It's been a while since my last blog because I've fallen off the wagon a bit. Ever since the Paleo+ challenge ended, I've been a little looser on the diet than I'd like to be honest. I mean, I'm enjoying what I'm eating but know I will feel like crap afterwards (but I still do it sigh). One thing especially is the increased intake of beer haha. I love my craft beer and I know it's the absolute worst thing you can drink but I love it anyway!
Here is a list of craft beers I had while on vacation:
Mt Begbie Powerhouse Pale Ale
Unibroue La Fin Du Monde
Unibroue Efemere
Granville Island Maple Cream Ale
Big Rock Grasshopper Wheat Ale
Steamwhistle Pilsner
Wild Rose WRaspberry Ale
I love vacation! I love the Canadian Rockies and I do totally miss Canada. Snowboarding was a blast! Doing a handstand with about 7 lbs of clothing/boots was fun haha... took about 5 attempts!
The hip is recovering... slowly but surely. My PT says it's almost there... that the only pain I'm still experiencing is where the muscle attaches to the bone. I think he said it's the sartorius muscle that's still inflamed although I am still experiencing some soreness in my piriformis too. I really need to take a biology class.
A new injury I am experiencing is my left shoulder. I don't know if I fell on it or slept on it funny but it's been over a week and it's still tender and weak. I went for a massage over the weekend and definitely felt serious differences b/t my shoulders when pressure was applied. I had my PT check it out and he thinks I strained my rotator cuff. Recommended that I get a massage in a week to get it fixed up. No weight on it for a week to see how it goes. He even said to lay off it even if it doesn't feel like it's hurting (he cited working the traps - think HPCs - as an example). My massage therapist said no heat difference b/t my shoulders and that was good. Will probably be back in there in a week.
Only went to CFC once last week on Tuesday (5 rounds of 25 sit ups / 25 back ext in 11:10) and my back had been sore for a few days. Sucks getting old as I feel like everything is taking longer to recover and with all this PT and MT, the costs are piling up!
My hope is to get back on the wagon soon. I'm cleaning up my weekday eating again and I'm hoping to get back to the box 3x a week.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Difference of opinion
It's Thursday and my traps are still swollen from the HPCs on Sunday. Definitely not doing anything until it recovers completely.
Yesterday, I had an interesting argument with my PT. I was doing an exercise where I stood on my left leg and I bent and pointed directions with my right leg. They're called vectors and they're supposed to help my stability throughout the leg and they're supposed to help my hip muscles get stronger. I felt a bit of soreness on the outside of my leg, near the ankle and I asked the PT if I was supposed to feel it there.
Instead of saying something like, concentrate on working your knee/hip or whatever, he said "I think you need more supportive shoes". I was wearing my Puma K-streets.
At first, I didn't think anything of it but it was his tone that really bothered me. Don't get me wrong, I really like my PT and he's fixing my hip but he went on to say that he's read "all the books" on barefoot running and pose running and he doesn't believe any of it and claims people get hurt more from it. Well, I'm sure the people that go to him that get hurt might not be easing into barefoot/pose running properly or they're not listening to their own body but I did not appreciate the way he passed judgment on me.
I tried to have an intelligent discussion with him as to why and things that he's read but he throws out a challenge at me to find studies for him to read. I haven't read and don't have access to studies with hard evidence (requires payment) but I have read plenty of anecdoctal articles that doesn't say barefoot running is bad for you.
Anyway, he doesn't have to agree with me but I feel like he judged unfairly. His compromise, interestingly enough, was for me to do the exercises barefoot. I don't understand as the reason he cited for my pain was lack of arch support. So how exactly does doing exercises barefoot help his cause?
It doesn't matter. If he wants me to wear regular running shoes, that's fine. I'm there to fix my hip. I can run in my Pumas after I'm all better.
Short version of what I've been eating over the last few days:
Breakfast: meatballs, eggs, spinach, peppers in some form or another
Lunch: Protein Bar Chicken Parm bowl (I had a coupon), Market Creations buffet lunch (fish, chicken, broccoli, bok choy... other than sauces, as good as paleo as I can be).
Dinner: salads with salmon burger, pureed turnip and celeriac, ground elk with tomato sauce.
Yesterday, I had an interesting argument with my PT. I was doing an exercise where I stood on my left leg and I bent and pointed directions with my right leg. They're called vectors and they're supposed to help my stability throughout the leg and they're supposed to help my hip muscles get stronger. I felt a bit of soreness on the outside of my leg, near the ankle and I asked the PT if I was supposed to feel it there.
Instead of saying something like, concentrate on working your knee/hip or whatever, he said "I think you need more supportive shoes". I was wearing my Puma K-streets.
At first, I didn't think anything of it but it was his tone that really bothered me. Don't get me wrong, I really like my PT and he's fixing my hip but he went on to say that he's read "all the books" on barefoot running and pose running and he doesn't believe any of it and claims people get hurt more from it. Well, I'm sure the people that go to him that get hurt might not be easing into barefoot/pose running properly or they're not listening to their own body but I did not appreciate the way he passed judgment on me.
I tried to have an intelligent discussion with him as to why and things that he's read but he throws out a challenge at me to find studies for him to read. I haven't read and don't have access to studies with hard evidence (requires payment) but I have read plenty of anecdoctal articles that doesn't say barefoot running is bad for you.
Anyway, he doesn't have to agree with me but I feel like he judged unfairly. His compromise, interestingly enough, was for me to do the exercises barefoot. I don't understand as the reason he cited for my pain was lack of arch support. So how exactly does doing exercises barefoot help his cause?
It doesn't matter. If he wants me to wear regular running shoes, that's fine. I'm there to fix my hip. I can run in my Pumas after I'm all better.
Short version of what I've been eating over the last few days:
Breakfast: meatballs, eggs, spinach, peppers in some form or another
Lunch: Protein Bar Chicken Parm bowl (I had a coupon), Market Creations buffet lunch (fish, chicken, broccoli, bok choy... other than sauces, as good as paleo as I can be).
Dinner: salads with salmon burger, pureed turnip and celeriac, ground elk with tomato sauce.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Between the Chungs...
... we have one fully functional body.
My arms, traps are super sore from Sunday's WOD.
My hip, left wrist are still recovering.
JJ's back, right wrist are still recovering.
Last weekend was JJ's birthday so we cheated a little bit. Peruvian food where our main dish was paella. We threw down some beers. Ate some sandwiches (with bread!). Lattes. Coconut custard cake from Metropolish. Delish.
In the week now so back at eating paleo. Been good this week so far!
Sunday's WOD:
5 rounds of:
10 pullups
20 HPCs at 45#
10 push presses at 45#
Just under 15min.
First round of pullups unbroken AND the second round was only broken once. I think my pullup endurance is finally coming along although today, 3 days after that WOD, I still can't straighten my arms without pain. Strange.
Also got a popped blood blister... boo
HPCs felt good considering it was my first time in months. No pain on hip. My traps are still killing me today.
Tried a push jerk but my hip just isn't ready for that yet so stuck with the push presses.
500m row after using minimal lower body: 2:16
Tuesday's WOD
5 rounds of
20 bench presses at 40#
Jog 2 hallway lengths
8:34
Bench presses were unbroken in first round. Broke up once in second round. Then started to go downhill from there. Worked hard to fight through 3. Muscles just failing at that point.
Good to jog down hallway and get moving!
2 x 500m row (2:11, 2:16). Just love jumping on the rower!
3 x 10 back extensions. Want to strengthen back since that movement causes no hip pain.
Tripped on the boards downstairs. That was not good for my hip :(
Back at PT today!
My arms, traps are super sore from Sunday's WOD.
My hip, left wrist are still recovering.
JJ's back, right wrist are still recovering.
Last weekend was JJ's birthday so we cheated a little bit. Peruvian food where our main dish was paella. We threw down some beers. Ate some sandwiches (with bread!). Lattes. Coconut custard cake from Metropolish. Delish.
In the week now so back at eating paleo. Been good this week so far!
Sunday's WOD:
5 rounds of:
10 pullups
20 HPCs at 45#
10 push presses at 45#
Just under 15min.
First round of pullups unbroken AND the second round was only broken once. I think my pullup endurance is finally coming along although today, 3 days after that WOD, I still can't straighten my arms without pain. Strange.
Also got a popped blood blister... boo
HPCs felt good considering it was my first time in months. No pain on hip. My traps are still killing me today.
Tried a push jerk but my hip just isn't ready for that yet so stuck with the push presses.
500m row after using minimal lower body: 2:16
Tuesday's WOD
5 rounds of
20 bench presses at 40#
Jog 2 hallway lengths
8:34
Bench presses were unbroken in first round. Broke up once in second round. Then started to go downhill from there. Worked hard to fight through 3. Muscles just failing at that point.
Good to jog down hallway and get moving!
2 x 500m row (2:11, 2:16). Just love jumping on the rower!
3 x 10 back extensions. Want to strengthen back since that movement causes no hip pain.
Tripped on the boards downstairs. That was not good for my hip :(
Back at PT today!
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