The Rem-back attack
I can’t even begin to express to you how more than happy I am with private Swedish health care. The physical therapist I’ve been seeing has put me through the ringer with these new back movements. They’re a combination of stretching and strenthening, both of which I am at a severe loss for in regards to my back. Some of them are so friggin hard yet so almost astoundingly easy looking that I almost can’t believe it-and those around me probably can’t believe their ears when they hear the loud grunting noises I’m making either, given the seemingly apparent easiness of these ’supercises’. In addition to loud grunting noises, I swear a lot. This helps get me through my set. If I blame the pain on something other than myself-usually the piece of equipment or some part of my body(which I consider outside of myself).
My shoulders, my dear Ingrid, are also friggin wrecked. Wrecked in a good way, but wrecked. Some of these movements require me to hold a broomstick of sorts behind my back with good posture(something entirely foreign to me) and keep it there for up to several minutes at a time while I labor laboriously bending and contorting myself into positions remarkably reminiscent of highschool cheerleading. This is what I always wanted.
But the back, my friends, is feeling much better. It really is. All complaining aside, I am so thankful to have been given the motivation to actually do something about this problem once and for all and then to encounter such great people in the process who are all more than capable of helping me. And by the way, the motivation was me hurting it again, bad enough this time to really get my attention. Surprise surprise, a negative becomes a positive.
I did a minor crushing of the legs yesterday. Two sets of plate runs(which, once agin, if you haven’t tried, you are missing out), a set of YoYo leg curls, a set of lateral walks, and some abductor/adductor work. They’ve been minorly sore all day. Might be getting a little worse as I write this. For those who don’t know, which is probably most of you, there is a new technology in town. It’s called YoYo technology. To be honest, we only have two pieces of that kind of equipment at our gym and one of the two is pretty damn shakey, but the other is up there in the excellent category. It works like this: there’s a resistance wheel which is attached to a belt which is attached to the lever. As you pull on the lever, the belt spins the resistance wheel with however much force you applied. As the belt reaches it’s limit(at the very top of the movement), it yanks the wheel back in the other direction with that same amount of resistance. Like a YoYo. Very good if you want to concentrate on the eccentric portion of the movement. Also a very cool feel.
Tomorrow I’m gonna crush some upper body. Tonight, in about two minutes I’m gonna crush some raw sailor’s beef, some chopped onions, some watercres, some parsley, some olive oil and some raw butter. For the time being, I’ve taken any kind of ground meat out of the nutritional plan. It just wasn’t sitting that well. Chopped up meat, on the other hand, sits real well.
July 23, 2008 at 10:39 am
Sounds like a nice steak tar tar (a personal favorite). At home, my boyfriend and I tend to chop/grind our own "hamburger" with quick pulses in a food processor. Buying a larger cut of meat means that less of that meat has been exposed to the air or contaminants as opposed to buying pre ground meat. You probably already knew that though!
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