I have been noticing the last few days some pain in my right forearm that feels like mild tendonitis, a condition I suffered chronically from for at least couple years during my calisthenics heyday. I’m not quite sure what would […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for Injuries
Since this was my last day at the gym I tried to cram four body parts into the session. I bailed out twice on tricep exercises. I first tried bodyweight tricep extensions and had some of that familiar right elbow […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So for the first time in 2017 I decided to do some squats, some very light squats, not crossing 135 pounds. Because of the IT band and knee pain I have been having squats have been off the menu for […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I just realized within the last 24-48 hours that I haven’t been walking with the small limp that has been my sidekick for the last 6-7 weeks. It seems the knee/IT band pain that was causing it has subsided, hopefully […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today I did decline bench press again with my bench press buddy. I had some mild irritation but not outright pain. However that all changed when we tried the Cybex plate loaded incline press. I tapped out after only two […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I went into my first gym workout of the week extremely sore from four days of fence building activities with a back beating 12 mile trail ride on my electric unicycle yesterday afternoon. My lower back is killing me with […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A couple weeks ago I started seeing a guy showing up at the gym that strikes me as somewhat odd. The first thing is his attire is the same regardless of temperature outside, sweatpants and a large hoodie sweatshirt. The […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Over the weekend I half ran a 5K race with my dog Sadie. I guess the good news is although my knee still hurts, it doesn’t hurt appreciably more than it did before the weekend. Today was my first bench […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So I decided to do some dragon flags as part of my core Friday. I completed one set of 5 reps and was at the bottom portion of rep 3 of the second set when I felt a jolt through […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So my left shoulder feels like absolute shit today even after doing a pretty meager amount of bench pressing yesterday. It hurt so much that I could only get 3 reps into a planned 20 rep pull up set before […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…