Changing it up again!
Well, I changed my workout up again. Not that I don’t do it regularly, but this was kind of forced. My left shoulder is absolutely killing me. Almost as bad as last January when I first noticed the problem. I took almost 7 days off from any upper body last week and by Sunday I was raring to go. The shoulder felt fine and the thought crossed my mind to give it a few more days, but I am anxious to strip off these 5 lbs I mini-bulked (or at least what isn’t muscle).
I always warm up my shoulders with a stretchy band that came with some video my ex-wife bought (but didn’t use). Warmup went fine and I was feeling pretty good. Moved on to military press. Wanted to take it lighter, so I thought a few extra warmup sets with just the bar would help. Everything was fine until I got towards the bottom portion of my motion. I could barely get the bar all the way to the bottom of the movement. So, I did about 3 and changed Sunday into arm day. I don’t seem to have any problems on any day but shoulder day and chest day when I do presses.
To make a long story longer, I have been doing some ab work every day, just one exercise for 3 sets. So since shoulder day is on hold for a while, I decided to make shoulder day ab day for a few weeks. I think I’m going to keep ab day because after yesterday, I’m sore as hell and that feels great!
I re-introduced HIIT cardio yesterday and still hate it. Seems like the running part lasts forever and the walking part goes by so fast. Yet I do it anyway, because it is a useful tool and it helps me achieve my goals. If the ice and rest don’t help the shoulder, it will be time to go see the hot doctor lady and let her figure out what is screwed up. I have a feeling it is some old scar tissue or a rotator cuff or something like that. I keep hearing my old football coaches hollering at whoever was writhing on the turf in pain "Are you injured or are you just hurt?" in the attempt to get us to toughen up. Well it worked coach, we are tougher, but we may need surgery 15 years down the road. Still, that was the way it was when tough was cool and men didn’t get manicures.
Last thought for the day… I have had women call me selfish because I spend a fair amount of time working on my body. I always laugh. Look up selfish in the dictionary and it will tell you that selfish is being concerned with one’s self and issues that affect one’s self. Uh, yeah… I’m selfish, since my main concern in life is my life, and I would think that everyone is concerned with their own well being. Besides, isn’t it selfish of them to want to take me away from something that is essential to me to spend time entertaining them? Seems just as selfish to me.
