shit man, that blows. obviously makes sense to get some imaging done after a diagnosis like that. 

Yeah thanks guys. Its definitely tough and I wish we could have diagnosed it earlier and saved me a shit load of time and wasted energy this fall with the lifting as this is going to put me back another 2 months worth of lifting and throwing. I'm hoping that it hasn't been healing on and off and causing large bone growths that are gonna have to get surgically removed, but I won't know until we get imaging done.

Its kind of ironic because I said during monday's practice that I kinda hoped that everything would just snap down there so that I knew I had to rest, not knowing what was really causing the pain, and come to find out, something most likely has.

Saw the trainer today. We did ice and stim followed by heat and some ultrasound work on the area. Didn't seem to do too much for the immediate area, but it did help loosen up surrounding muscle tissue. Doing the same thing the rest of the week and see how it helps/hurts. Forgot to ask if I could do upperbody workout stuff today, so I'll ask tomorrow.

Not too much to report. Had another appointment with an osteopathic doctor who did some SI joint manipulation which got rid of some of the other discomfort that I've had in the area but the main hip pain still remained whenever I did the 3 movements where its always hurt. That was thursday, it feels a little bit better today although I still get a sharp pain doing those movements. Not quite the getting stabbed by a big knife like it used to be.

Did some pushups and stretching of the upperbody tonight just because I'm getting soo bored not doing anything and they didn't seem to put much pressure on the hip or cause any discomfort during or after. Gonna talk to the trainer about getting an MRI this week since none of the treatment work has really helped to alleviate the issue. Hoping it will show that its either a ruptured tendon down there, or that I have a bad case of Piriformis syndrome and that is causing the pain I feel when it gets stretched over the Sciatic nerve.

Today's Workout:

Y,T,W's: 3 sets of 10 reps per exercise-5lber's, 5lber's, 5lber's
Pull-Ups: 6,4,3,3,3,4,4
Lat Pull-Downs: 50lbsx20
Barbell Curls: barx12, 65lbsx8, 75lbsx6

The upperbody workout today went pretty well. Y,T,W's were pretty tough on an incline bench today. Probably because I couldn't use any momentum whatsoever. With pull-ups, I'm not exactly sure how the reps went after the 3rd set but I think it was something like I posted above. I did a burner set of lat pull-downs to really get a pump in the lats. I ended with barbell curls, but my arms were pretty fried at that point so the volume isn't where I'd have liked it to be. Overall I felt kinda weak today, but I'm just happy to be doing some form of training again. I'm hoping I'll be able to get at least a few good throws in come the end of the indoor season.

Early Week Training:

Push-Ups: 12,12,12,10,10 (done sunday)
Hip Thrusts: 8,8 (5 sec hold at top done sunday)
Lateral Raises: 10'sx15, 12'sx15,15, 20'sx8
Rear Delt Flyes on incline Bench: 8'sx15,15,15,15
Seated DB Curls: 20'sx15,15,15 per arm
Tricep Pushdowns: 50lbsx8, 70lbsx8
Cable Bar Curls: 20lbsx10, 40lbsx10

Pretty good workout on monday. Did the push-ups sunday night along with some hip thrusts. Shoulder and arm work went well and got a super pump in the arms and shoulders. Rear Delt flyes are sooo much harder on the incline bench then just being bent over.

Hip pain has been non-existent some days, other days i wake up and it hurts like a mofo. This morning was one of those days and I feel like crap too. Dizzy and running a slight fever (I think this happened to me around the same time last year). More upperbody work tomorrow and probably doing some turns at full speed with just a chair or broom stick tomorrow.

Well I let the hip rest the whole weekend except for when I went to shovel off the circle yesterday in preparation for the awesome weather today. Instead of shoveling, what i really ended up doing was chipping an inch and a half of solid ice with a cruddy shovel for over and hour and a half. I got most of the circle cleared and left knowing the warm weather today would make the rest much easier.

Weather today was phenomenal. Sunny, no clouds and about 40 degrees although it felt like 60 degrees with the reflection from the ice/snow on the field. I finished clearing the circle off and went to open the cage gates and it turned out that they had sunk in the muck in the fall and had been frozen in. So I spent another half an hour chipping away the ice so I could get them open. Once I finally got them open I did some bodyweight squats to warm the legs up and then grabbed an old 6k hammer that it wouldn't matter if the swivel got thrashed from landing on the ice in the field.

Well it was just my luck that on the first full throw with it, I got it stuck up at the very top of the right cage gate. So I tried to get it down for awhile and then decided to grab another hammer rather than waste the weather. So I grabbed an old 5k (turned out to be 10lbs, I think we lost the 5k and it suddenly was replaced with the 10lb) and immediately I was throwing well. My focus was on sitting back on my start and on driving the right hip and foot around in the turns and the finish to help minimize stress on my left hip. It definitely worked as the only severe hip pain I felt was when I'd slip a little on the ice retrieving the hammer. The session lasted around 2 hours and I got in over 25 throws. I was consistently around 60-63m with one that was closer to 64m the entire session. I couldn't stop throwing because it felt soo good. Iced the hip after and then did 5 sets of 10 pushups and 3 sets of glute bridges to help my hip alignment. So happy to finally be throwing again without severe pain and I'm excited to get back to full on training everyday in a few weeks after indoor season is done.