Another week, more shoulder stuff

I think I'm finally recovered from food poisoning which is great news! Bad news is that my left shoulder is pretty sore today. The shoulder stuff I had dealt with last year feels fine (I have full ROM mostly) so I don't think that's the problem.
A few weeks ago, some muscle in my left shoulder, closer to the spine, spazzed out and ever since then, I keep tweaking my neck. It recovers, but never fully.
Then I started rolling on it with a Lacrosse ball and I found a muscle that is super super tight... it feels like a ridge. At first, I thought maybe it was a tendon and that I shouldn't be rolling on it. Rudy said it should feel like the other side. While the right side was pretty tight too, it felt nothing like that super stiff muscle on the left side.
Anyways, after a week of self rolling, I decided I needed some manual work. Saturday, I went to see my massage therapist and boy did he find a lot of craziness back there.
In addition to what I think is the rhomboid that's jacked up, it turns out I had some crazy knots in my upper trap too. My neck was stiff (knots there too). What the hell did I do??

Massage therapist told me to lay off it for a while... it'll be sore after the manual work but should recover in 2-3 days. I need to continue to roll that stuff to release the pressure. Key is to get on that muscle (on the ridge) and sink into it.

Back on the (blogging) wagon?

From Kicking Horse Mountain Resort March 13-20, 2010

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.

Argh

Woke up this morning with hip or something near there feeling pain. I must have pulled something coming out the bottom of that last squat yesterday. No workout today I guess. Might try to run since it looks nice out... if it's not too wet and it doesn't hurt hip.
Also other pains: left wrist (stupid work laptop) and right shoulder (I don't know why).

Breakfast: Chili on top of spiral cut purple carrots (which were orange on the inside). Latte (Sunday morning treat to make me forget the pain haha).

No lunch yet... hungry again!