Avoiding CNS-OT and Mid-Year resolutions
Last Monday I benched only up to 75kg raw and then 3 X 100kg (220lb) plus 1 X 110kg (242lb) equipped (Katana A/S). Just growled at over-excited friends threatening to load the bar up to whatever. The week before I had gone up to 77,5kg raw, no equipped benching.
This is recovery from an accumulated set of injuries. The most painful is a double lateral epicondilitis. It just kills you at lock-outs and sustaining work.
This is my third week of “Mid-Year” resolutions (the ones I failed at New Year). The most important one is to change the pattern where I spend half of the year competing and screwing my joints and half of the year trying to mend them. Now I will do pre-hab work all year long. I have been visiting my friend Bernardo, who is a physiotherapist and a very strict person, every week. I also see Fabiano (my orthopedist) twice a month and have electro-acupuncture.
More later about pre-hab work. I think it is working, but since training has been intensified, the pain is also quite intense.
