Dewey’s BodyBlog

I’ve pulled my P90X dvds back out and have started plyometircs this week. And boy am I sore. I haven’t excercised since mid April. Yea, shame on me. But a little background on what’s been happening. April 29th I had surgery on my left shoulder to repair a torn labrum. This injury happened before I started P90X. I stopped excercising about a week before. Had the staples removed on May 11th. Then started physical therapy on May 20th. I go to therapy 3 times a week. The first couple weeks was passive resistance. Then June 1st the excercises began. I still do the passive resistance excercises. The others are tricep pull downs (currently 30lbs), db bicep curls (8lbs), shoulder shrugs (8lbs), standing rows with resistance bands, and sitting chest press (machine 30lbs). There’s a couple other excercises. Like reaching up and putting pegs in a board. Each week my Physical Therapist’s add another excercise for me. So far I spend about two hours in therapy. At the end of each session they stretch my shoulder. In the beginning, that was very painfull. Still hurts, but getting better. I must say I’m very impressed with my PT’s. They are very good at what they do.

Two weeks ago I could not touch my head with my left arm. I can now. But my range of motion is still limited. It’s funny how excited I get when I find I can do something else with my left arm. I’m talking silly things. Like putting on deoderant under my right arm using my left hand. That was a milestone. Being able to wash my hair with both hands. Stuff like that.

But I’m still a good ways from doing the full P90X routine. So I started plyometircs this week. I am going to do plyo 3 times a week. (Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday) Why just plyometrics? It’s a killer work out and I don’t have to use my left arm that much. On movements where I have to raise my arms, I modify to get through the excercise. I will also start doing legs on Fridays, in another week or so. In P90X, when you do legs, you also do back. (pull ups) I will just be doing legs, for obvious reasons. I will wait until I get full range of motion, with out pain, before I start the other rountines. Not sure how long that will be. But I’m looking forward to being able to BRING IT again.

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