Stryka’s BodyBlog

Well at the moment when my motivation to train is on a high just happens to coincide with a knee that doesn’t work. When I posted about it last weekend it was sore but not too bad. That night it really stiffened up and felt like it had been twisted and then crushed in a vice. I saw the doctor about it on Monday who took all of about 3 seconds to diagnose it as bursitis and prescribe anti inflamatories and rest.

He had me worried to start with though as soon as I said I had aggravated it on the bike he said I had to stop that. I thought he meant permanently! He clarified that to about a week or so. Which is about how often I get on the bike anyway. Although a week without squatting is a more serious matter

It has settled down a fair bit now but not quite enough for me to be happy to get out on the bike this weekend. I can still feel it and whilst I was training arms yesterday I threw in a set of light leg presses to test it and whilst the set was easy as soon as I stood up you could feel it stiffen up so no good but I don’t imagine it will hold me back for too much longer.

Everything else has been ok. Still trained the upper body this week. I have tightened up my diet alot this past two week too which I think I can start to see some results in and right now I am itching for the gym to happen in a few hours so I can get a bench in. 

Well despite a few repeated requests I have been lazy over the past couple of months and haven’t posted anything. Mainly because I have been through a bit of a motivational valley. Don’t exactly know why, just haven’t had any oomph and when I don’t feel like I have got anywhere then it is harder to think of things to write about.

I have been forced to completely change around my training schedule to training in the morning which if you know me well you know I am not a morning person… at all. What this means for me is that I don’t have as much drive to train well when I am there, but I am getting there and I am at the point where if I do miss a session I get the same itch that I used to get to get my ass back in there.

Summer is fast approaching and I have been getting some good rides in. Raced a 20km time trial yesterday was going ok until I got almost halfway to find a big ass hill in the way. Normally it wouldn’t be a problem but I was so unprepared for it that it slowed me down considerably.

Also did a 110km ride today which deliberately included about 10 hills. Which means I am knackered know but the ride itself was really good. One hill in particular which is tough at the best of times let alone 80kms in actually turned out to be nothing. It starts out quite steep then levels off but I remember having to fight so hard for that first kilometre that the next 4 to the top still hurt even though it levels out a bit. This time I thought i was only on a small hill before the climb but then before you know it the road levelled out and I raced up the rest of the hill. The weather was great too, bring on Summer!

My only real problem at the moment is my left knee. I did something to it back when i was a soldier and every know and again it gives me grief. I got caught on the bike in a hail storm a fortnight ago and it has started playing up. Was allright yesterday but today I felt pain right from the start. Is weird though, there is no loss of strength in it, no problems pushing on it, just hurts. Glucosamine and anti-inflamattories usually does the trick so I am hoping it should die down over the next couple of days. Will put off leg day until wednesday though just to be sure.

Weight training has improved over the last couple of weeks, pulled 180kg for reps on friday which felt good. Diet has been average but not too bad overall, I haven’t porked up or anything just not as lean as the profile pic.

And that is me in a nutshell. Sorry for taking so long to post.