"purification by pain"
-popular description of my Kettlebell and 'boot camp' classes at World Gym 2004-2006
Hell I took all forms of pleasure in the knowledge that my training was viewed as both taxing and effective. Not entirely safe, however. What I though were safe mechanisms of tissue transformation I regard now as unsavory. And unsafe.
Hooking up with Adam and Frankie was a great step for me. Reading fF's post Pain Makes You Stupid echoed in my head as my history of injury, pain, and joint mobility allowed me to process the information with direct reference.
So after following Gym Movement for 6 months I have my first resurgence in pain. This ti
E, though in a familiar area, the pain is easy to read and even simpler to resolve.
Knee pain has vaporized in the last few months and training pistols has not aggravated it at all. In addition, walking or riding my bicycle has not fired it up either. My trip to 9,130 feet of elevation in Silverton Colorado flared the knee up and it has been quiet since my return from that trip ten weeks ago.
So your ole dad here likes the one leg squats and they have been testing well for months.
Recently I applied some neck and torso rotation to the pistol and it tested quite nicely. I hit a volume PR with pistols on Tuesday and for three days now my knee as well as symmetrical pieces of quadriceps tissue on either leg are in full vocal chorus.
I hurt myself. But how? Well even though the movement and said variations tested well AND I paid attention to the elements of effort, I abused my tissue.
Something in the rotation of my spine or the depth of my pistols lit up the muscles which could be local to the adductor group or the quadriceps group. So what do I do? Me, the guy who has been gettin' outta pain all summer and fall?
I listen. I regard the data, I reformulate an approach, and I ask more questions. That is the applicable course of action for the physical vessel.
For my soul I pledge to not set a trap for myself through actions influenced by pain and I have no plan to use the pain as a motivator to do anything other than keep moving forward.
W
Addendum: One week later and my knee has not bothered me since that day.
20101119
20101108
Weekend Update: Bigger Will is in the house
Why am i referring to myself as 'Bigger Will'? The cold weather is giving me the urge to eat more and i will be damned if i am not losing the battle against that urge. I think i weight 305 now. . . .
These are postings with regard to my training. i am sure that my clients will put up numbers this week that best their previous data, and dazzle the reader. Here it comes:
Friday PM
Headstand leg lifts
Inversion postures
tumbling, handstands, wall stands,
25:00 of beautiful strength
24kg snatches
Volume 5,565 lbs./105 reps in 9:35
PR [progress report] Better in Volume, Density [Progess Report = better than Wednesday's snatch session]
Scissor pressing
Volume 2,758 lbs. 20.83% Density
[PR in volume]
Chinning from various grips
Volume 7,808 lbs./32 reps, Density 14.82%
[PR volume]
Pistols, heel elevated
Volume 2,928 lbs./7 reps left, 5 reps right, Density 12.66%
No numerical PRs, but less and less pain in the on every rep, and a new understanding of the pistol and where my body can go with it. That is a PR. A Personal Record. Perpetual Progress. Progress Report?
Quality of Movement increased. . . . .
Saturday 0600 woke up, clients until 1130
Tested wall stands and wall-stand push ups, cleaned my kitchen, ate perfect calories and watched the Flyers win!
Sunday 0800
Nature walk 2.8 miles, on my feet from 0700-1330 hours, then a movie, 9,000 calorie, 30.00 dinner, and sleep.
Today, my typical rest day, began with a bang. 0700 WAKE UP, Drink that coffee, call that woman, total those calories from yesterday.
-0945 pound my NO-BS Dirty pre-workout powder [gagging noise], ride 1.2 miles to the health club.
-1002 test baseline ROM, dead lifts, hang shrugs, good to go!
Cleans
165 x 1, 165 x 2, 165 x 3 [last set tested negative, so i rested and added more weight]
185 x 1, 185 x 3 [again a set of 3 tested negative so i rested, added more weight and stuck with short rest between reps. . .
195 x 3 singles in 50 seconds tested awesome
195 x 3 rest 2:00
195 x 5 tested every rep, every rep tested well
Clean and jerk 195 x 3, tested every rep, tested well.
C&J from a staggered stance [Adam Glass' recommendation]
195 x 3 every reps tested +, rest 1:45
195 x 3 every reps tested +, rested 1:45
Jerk 195 x 3, tested negative. DONE! 36:00
Volume of Cleans 4,460 lbs.
Volume of C&J/Jerks 3,120
Total in 36:00 7,580
Density of 36:00 19.02%
PR Intensity, more reps/load done at 97.50% intensity than previous
1 arm DB row data
Volume 5,860
Intensity 50-75%
Density 19.29%
PR Volume
And no pain. None. My body feels as though it slept well [that means i want more sleep], it feels like it was worked out [that means my muscles are big], and it looks like i just abandoned my veggies/meat strategy 5 out of the last 9 days [my belly is soft now], but there is no pain.
Quality of movement in this case also increases quality of life. For me, waking up after a long night in the rack and no back pain is, well, unfamiliar. But certainly not unwelcome. . . . .
These are postings with regard to my training. i am sure that my clients will put up numbers this week that best their previous data, and dazzle the reader. Here it comes:
Friday PM
Headstand leg lifts
Inversion postures
tumbling, handstands, wall stands,
25:00 of beautiful strength
24kg snatches
Volume 5,565 lbs./105 reps in 9:35
PR [progress report] Better in Volume, Density [Progess Report = better than Wednesday's snatch session]
Scissor pressing
Volume 2,758 lbs. 20.83% Density
[PR in volume]
Chinning from various grips
Volume 7,808 lbs./32 reps, Density 14.82%
[PR volume]
Pistols, heel elevated
Volume 2,928 lbs./7 reps left, 5 reps right, Density 12.66%
No numerical PRs, but less and less pain in the on every rep, and a new understanding of the pistol and where my body can go with it. That is a PR. A Personal Record. Perpetual Progress. Progress Report?
Quality of Movement increased. . . . .
Saturday 0600 woke up, clients until 1130
Tested wall stands and wall-stand push ups, cleaned my kitchen, ate perfect calories and watched the Flyers win!
Sunday 0800
Nature walk 2.8 miles, on my feet from 0700-1330 hours, then a movie, 9,000 calorie, 30.00 dinner, and sleep.
Today, my typical rest day, began with a bang. 0700 WAKE UP, Drink that coffee, call that woman, total those calories from yesterday.
-0945 pound my NO-BS Dirty pre-workout powder [gagging noise], ride 1.2 miles to the health club.
-1002 test baseline ROM, dead lifts, hang shrugs, good to go!
Cleans
165 x 1, 165 x 2, 165 x 3 [last set tested negative, so i rested and added more weight]
185 x 1, 185 x 3 [again a set of 3 tested negative so i rested, added more weight and stuck with short rest between reps. . .
195 x 3 singles in 50 seconds tested awesome
195 x 3 rest 2:00
195 x 5 tested every rep, every rep tested well
Clean and jerk 195 x 3, tested every rep, tested well.
C&J from a staggered stance [Adam Glass' recommendation]
195 x 3 every reps tested +, rest 1:45
195 x 3 every reps tested +, rested 1:45
Jerk 195 x 3, tested negative. DONE! 36:00
Volume of Cleans 4,460 lbs.
Volume of C&J/Jerks 3,120
Total in 36:00 7,580
Density of 36:00 19.02%
PR Intensity, more reps/load done at 97.50% intensity than previous
1 arm DB row data
Volume 5,860
Intensity 50-75%
Density 19.29%
PR Volume
And no pain. None. My body feels as though it slept well [that means i want more sleep], it feels like it was worked out [that means my muscles are big], and it looks like i just abandoned my veggies/meat strategy 5 out of the last 9 days [my belly is soft now], but there is no pain.
Quality of movement in this case also increases quality of life. For me, waking up after a long night in the rack and no back pain is, well, unfamiliar. But certainly not unwelcome. . . . .
20101103
Report
Team,
My home PC is buggin' out and i am not enabled to blog 'full quiver' from my iPhone. Please stay tuned as i will be posting my workout data and screaming client PRs as often as i can from the mobile device and the PC at Kettlebells 4 U.
My recent noteworthies:
Discovered the inverted crunch tests well.
Discovered that i can train guided by biofeedback in order to relive pain in the immediate sense, as well as the long term.
Discovered that the clean is precisely what my hips and spine and shoudlers desire as the speed and load feels as though it is uncorking my twisted set of bones.
My recent PRs
24kg kettlebll snatch Volume/Density in 10:00 block
[yes you read it i am testing/training kettlebell snatches again]
1 arm rows
Volume and Intensity on the same day
Barbell cleans full on Quality of Movement increases every day. No effort, no pain, all gain.
See me on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/authenticstrengthtraining
My home PC is buggin' out and i am not enabled to blog 'full quiver' from my iPhone. Please stay tuned as i will be posting my workout data and screaming client PRs as often as i can from the mobile device and the PC at Kettlebells 4 U.
My recent noteworthies:
Discovered the inverted crunch tests well.
Discovered that i can train guided by biofeedback in order to relive pain in the immediate sense, as well as the long term.
Discovered that the clean is precisely what my hips and spine and shoudlers desire as the speed and load feels as though it is uncorking my twisted set of bones.
My recent PRs
24kg kettlebll snatch Volume/Density in 10:00 block
[yes you read it i am testing/training kettlebell snatches again]
1 arm rows
Volume and Intensity on the same day
Barbell cleans full on Quality of Movement increases every day. No effort, no pain, all gain.
See me on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/authenticstrengthtraining
Major Rush, USMC/MT Police Department, RKC 2009
224 pounds bodyweight,
38 years old
Previous 1RM in conventional deadlift 350 lbs. [Sept 2010]
Today, 1445 Hours
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