Recovering
After a week of limited workouts I tried to do a little more today. Instead of doing just legs and some ab work I expanded my workout to arms and chest on the machines. Since my injury seems to have gotten better with the prescription strength ibuprofen I used machines only fearing free weights would put too much strain on the injured area.
I’m writing this about two hours after I finished and so far I don’t think I did any damage. Took my regular dosage of ibuprofen and hoping all will be well.
For the record I did three sets of the vertical chest press, one set at 100 pounds, one set at 110 and one at 120. I did three sets of pec flyes two sets at 80 pounds, one set at 90 pounds. I then did three sets of triceps push downs, on set at 80 pounds, one set at 90 and one set at 100. I finished up with three sets of biceps curls, one set at 40 pounds and two at 50. Normally I can do three sets of 177.5 on the vertical chest press, 110 on the chest flyes, 130 on the triceps pushdown and 75 to 77.5 on the biceps curl.
I hope to be back at those levels soon.
You may be wondering what happened to my back and shoulder. Somehow I managed to strain something in the area near the right shoulder blade, which can be extremely painful. It seems there is no such thing as a comfortable position. As soon as you’re comfortable siting, it hurts and then you try to lie down and after a minute of two it hurts again. Over and over.
The way I managed to get this injury is odd. I was helping my dad wash down the walls of his front porch and the pain started about three hours after the job was done. Nothing strenuous there but It was a repeated movement back and forth up and down. The doctor said it wasn’t strain from weight but the repeated movement causing my problem.
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