Fit for Freedom

After the recovery…I waited to see how the bone and tendons felt.  Fortunately I do not feel anything!  The muscles are a little sore and that is good.  So, I will keep to lighter weight and up the reps at home for the biceps and tris but maintain the heavier sets unless it starts to hurt with rows or lat pus etc.  So I should be off to the races Mobday for "spring cleaning/beach prep."

In other news my son, KDP here, has been given a full ride scholarship to play football at the University of Rhode Island.  As his coach says, "He is a big human."  6′6" and 305.  Already at 17 benching 350.  The coach says he will easily do 500 before graduation.  NFL?  Unlikely he does say he will take what life throws at him.  Papa is proud.  Lifting helped him and BB.com was part of the program.  Thanks especially to Trixter for helping with the nutrition/supplement parts!

As I reflect on what that age means to me I think…I will be better built at 49 than I was at 21.  Back then I could bench 190, weighed 185 lbs and not much else.  Oh, 12 ounce curls…I was in college. Now I weigh 212, bench 275 curl 265 and various other numbers that I will not bore the stronger than I set.What are my goals?  Hum…maintain and increase slower the weights I do.  The mind is willing but the body is not as fast at regenerating as it was before. Therefor more reps with lighter weight.  However, I do intend to lift as much weight per set as when I was doing heavy.  There is still much to be gained in size and tone.  Finding the right individual mix is like trying to find the right "spritual" path for one’s self.  i continually thank jackedinmi, tonigal69, DeborahAnn and Romantic1983 and trixter for their comments, photos and encouragement.

Tendonitis was the wrong diagnosis.  Stress Micro fractrures appears to be the accurate one.  Apparently the biceps, tendons and ligaments could handle the heavy weight.  The bones could not which amazes me.  I have been placed on 3000 IUs of D-3 and upped the Ca++ intake.  Which means I will have to re-start AGAIN and at lower weight to build the bone back up. Seems like the rest of the bone frame is intact and behaving appropriately. So next week starts the regime and must re-evaluate everything including more "hammer style" grips and limiting the amount of bicep exercises I have been doing.  Oh well, live and learn but never give up.  Surviorman and Bear Grylls agree on one thing, it isn’t necessarily the supplies that will save you but the will to live.  In this case it is the will to lift.  It lives within. Just "closed" for inventory and reorganization at the moment.

Tendonitis is now past and I have been spending time assessing what to do with the damage left behind and avoid the future of potential reccurrence.  I have opted at this point to go lighter reps and more of them as well as adding cardio more heavily with a running program.  I have already cut down 9 pounds by changing the diet around.  I have to focus on what works best for me and the muscle types.  Funny, but it seems like the only fast twitch muscles I have are in my calves and biceps/triceps.  So I will work on thinning the fat off and see what is underneath.  Keeping the protein sources up is no problem and on the run days it will be just as important as well as adding more carbs pre-run as not to catabolize muscle tissue. With the muscle training I have to make sure I alter the grip to hammer style so as not to stress the forearms too much.  I need to re-evaluate my Captains of Crush grippers too and add more reps at the lower resistance.  I would like to avoid tendonitis as much as possible.