Muscle Mania Matt’s BodyBlog

Last night I was stretching my piriformis, and I had only gone about 10% when I heard a loud ripping noise come from my knee, and a buttload of pain! It felt like either the connective tissue of my IT band or my fibular lateral ligament had torn. 12 hours later, there is no swelling, no color, nothing! It still hurts pretty good, but I can walk on it. I think I am ok, and that my knee is just pissed at me, but I am going to have it looked at anyway. With how it is now, I wouldn’t have been too worried, except for the loud ripping sound when it happened, during a stretch I do twice a day.

I have always carried a little more than I would like to(it’s all relative, what is good to me can be different than what is good to you). I have put good muscle on over the last year, but much more fat than I should have, simply because I didn’t care enough or didn’t use the discipline within me to make it happen. The last year and a half was rough; I went from working at Golds, working at Micron, switching to a different Gold’s, moving into a private studio, and finally(thankfully) over to BBCOM. I’ve been in school full time. I have gotten married, and had some major surgery on my shoulder. I have moved 3 times in 15 months. I think with all of these distractions and instability I lost sight of what was important to me at the time, and my nutrition suffered horribly. I feel like I am only now getting my life out of the feeling of chaos and back into normalcy. Now in front of me lies the challenge of getting into my best possible shape to compete again. I won’t ever step onstage unless I feel I am ready, because I am sick of mediocrity. I am planning for a couple shows in April/May, and will do everything I can to make it to them. However, if I don’t think I am ready, I will continue dieting for shows later in the year. But until I can see the striations in my hamstrings, and have a roadmap across my back, I will not step onstage. I don’t mind a whole lot if I don’t win, as long as I feel I did my best. To rephrase, I don’t care about winning if I didn’t beat anyone that impresses me. I would rather place third behind a couple of fantastic athletes, then win in a very weak group.