d_p_pank’s BodyBlog

Ok, I’m slacking at the blogging and the workout logging here, but I am keeping it all in my moleskin pocket notebook. I’m moving right along with the rehab post-op protocol. I even bought myself a new toy, a slideboard. I’ll eventually move over to my soccer teams agility training, but for now it’s my way to work on my intial lateral movements.

 I’m also getting to the part where I need to start doing my leg workout, machine parts, without my brace. The damn thing is giving me some major calf and quad cramping and also noticably effecting the muscle building in the restricted areas.

I still like my ice and the stim works to fire up certain parts of my quad, but being patient is challenging.

I hate Suday’s at my gym. It is officially everybody show up at 1pm when the place opens and clog up every machine. Plus there are all the people still on their new year’s  kick showing up at that time.

Anyhow, I find it hard to not try and teach one of those people that are now showing up proper technique when I see them doing something so wrong that mentally my muscle that would be pulled by their technique begins to hurt.

In the middle of my chest work today while I notice on the machine in front of me one of those said female gym goers who doesn’t know how to work at the glute ext machine. Instead of adjusting the pad to the back of her hamstring and then extending, she is trying to extend from the machines entry point. Just looking at the overextension moment made my hip flexors hurt.

I was not sitting on the chest press doing a glute creepy guy stare down, I just was in that shaking my head position when I saw the extension go completely out of the normal motion range.

Here’s where I really don’t know whether it’s better to correct or possibly be labled the creepy guy. Please advise for future reference.

So far I’m happy. I hit another mile marker and all is going well. I’m progressing well with my PT! I’m right on schedule with the protocol. Life is pretty much back to normal. Just still need to coach from the sidelines and let somebody else do the demonstrating.

I’m expanding the wellness offerings in my workplace. My biggest challenge there is to get the people that are already doing things right to accept the fact that everybody else is not like them. 

I’m also getting back to adding compound movements into my workout. As the PT has progressed now the dumbells, cables and smith machine all are allowed back into my total body routine. Yippee for regaining stability and flexibility.

I will admit that I’m the dork at the gym who uses the stability board and the balance disk on leg day and after my cardio to retrain my proprioception. I need this back due to all the wintry weather here, I’m not planning on going down due to a little patch of ice.

Finally cardio is now back to a 45 minute level without any pain or swelling. Time to get back on my eating and working on dropping 1 pound per week. I’m keeping it that simple so I can reach a better weight around the time I’m able to start back at full activity.

 Peace out!

I’m not a big fan of the New Year’s resolution. I tend to follow a plan once I realize something is not in proper alignment when it comes to things that I control. Right now I’m still in the process of following through with last years major undertaking. I realized when my knee wasn’t feeling 100% last year I needed to do something. Lifting and strengthening wasn’t doing the trick. I didn’t wait once we figured out the real issue I just took the slightly more conservative approach in order to improve the end success.

In other aspects of life I tend to put things in this same perspective. For that reason there will be no resolution. I like to believe that life is dynamic and not predetermined.