Gah so I just checked out a Q&A this podiatrist that I'm seeing on Friday did a while back in the Washington Post and the guy is all about orthotics and extra-supportive shoes and so on even for toddlers! The (dominant) side of me that loves being barefoot or wearing as little shoe as possible is reeeeally skeptical right now. If/when I have kids those little fuckers are gonna wear shoes as infrequently as possible. I kind of wish my appointment was RIGHT NOW, I'm really antsy about it for some reason.
Gotta be open minded, gotta be open minded, gotta be open minded.......
ya im with you man.. orthotics (&strengthening) for kids in extreme situations with huge deviations, otherwise, strengthen those fuckers up.. It's kind of similar with the ADHD shit now too. Man, I was hyper as fuck as a kid, but that's because I am very imaginative/creative, the mind is always racing between tons of ideas. I'm so glad kids weren't put on that shit as often, probably would have lost a huge amount of creative development.
the over-prescription of america pisses me off pretty bad.
I don't even like taking medicine when I'm sick, yet most americans are pill popping daily for god knows how many "ailments".
so ya, don't rush to a decision on the orthotics, think it through.. those people like to put you on the spot
make sure you balance those strong calves out with some work for the muscles around the shin
Word , my shins are so sensitive , always were. Probably because cavles were always 10000xstronger. And i always thought i should do some shin strengthening shit , dorsiflexion things etc... Of course like a true asshole i have never done even 1 single set of shin excercise in my whole life!
I'd say it more has to do with the strength of the feet/arch etc.. that has a huge impact on "shin pain". The anterior shin muscles get so much work in running/jumping etc, no need to even really work them isolation style. If your arch is collapsing/flat feed, that's going to be alot of stress on the tibia/fibula and the membrane that connects them. That's usually what freaks out.
be careful man, achilles tendonitis sucks, it took me like a year till it felt about normal, and even then i still had tenderness in the area, which lasted for about another year, and strangely dissapeared a few days after i did a stim on my calves, maybe the extra calf strength was necessary
advice may sound familiar here, but it ain't worth it to get achilles tendonitis now, you still got a long training career ahead of you, i'll get to that 275 squat in time and you will get to your goals, make sure that achilles is ok, i think that would be one of the worst things to injure especially when your focusing on one leg vert/reactivity, etc. It's a bitch to heal up too, and you won't be able to fight through it, or even want to if you injure it
ya thanks for the words. When I was doing my RVJ stuff a while back (you know, 2007-2009 or whatever), about .5 years into my training my left achilles started acting odd, so I was always worrying about it. Having the achilles-injury stuff in your head is never good, shit would mess with my head hardcore. I don't even like talking about it.
I call it achilles-area because, I don't really think it's my achilles. I think it's a flexor digitorum muscle, which is in the general area:
I crunched (flexed) my toes during calf raise, and felt something.. did it by accident.
achilles-area still bugging, possibly a little better, but scary nonetheless.. gonna have to be very careful.. tomorrow will probably be RFI again but ill just tone it down, i need to maintain the bounce ive gained.
shadow boxing: - sick speed, 4 rounds
ISOT: 3 rotations
neutral grip pullups: - 19, 18, 16 - best pullups ive ever done after shadow boxing, for sure, so much power
dips: - mini dip things, cause of shoulder, fast, quarter depth - 40, 40, 40
squat: - heels elevated, done with alot of power tonight, best so far - 95 lb @ 15, 20, 18
single leg squat variation: - holding a 10 lb db in the off hand - 20,20,20
calf raise: - BW @ 50, 50, 50 - so much pump in glutes/calfs from that
nice, how hard you throw it down? nasty? Looks like you had alot of room to throw it down nice.
definitely looks about 3" over. My perspective gets wrecked the closer the cam is to the hoop, especially with the runup so much closer to the cam. That's also why I moved my cam pretty far out from the hoop.
32 inch vert pr yesterday!!!! i didnt even have my ipod so i did meditating on my best jumps. However, i didnt start meditating till my 10th jump so if i did it on the 5th-10th jumps, i probly would have gotten a bigger pr. I also did my warmup of leg swings and butt kicks with my eyes closed just to see what would happen. at 6 40, i ate spinach and life cereal.
sick, update your original-post too btw, with your new pr.
I'm going to Roger Ebert this b*tch. I should do them all like the clockwork orange one. Kind of in order from most awesomest to almost most awesomest:
This is probably my favorite movie. Every time it's on I can't help but watch it, and I've seen it probably > 30 times. The acting is just on point. You can feel the tension heat up between Gene Hackman and Denzel the whole movie, until it boils over hardcore for the last 1/3rd of the film. The concept of the movie is also damn interesting: How can they both be right & both be wrong aboard a nuclear sub? This movie is so damn intense.
This movie is just ridiculous. Everyone talks about Pacino in scarface, godfather, etc, but this has to be his best performance. This is the typical "torn between Good & Evil movie", where you find yourself rooting for Good and for evil throughout the film. De`Niro & his crew of career criminals, representing "evil" depending on what side of the fence you are on, live out the anti-establishment dream by intelligently & carefully planning heists throughout the movie, yet making very small mistakes at inopportune times. Small mistakes that Pacino & his crew of law enforcers look to exploit, in order to take De`Niro & his crew into custody. Although each character in this movie is hardened, most of them are vulnerable in the "love department", which is an all too real twist considering the loneliness of each profession, but it's not portrayed irresponsibly.
Beyond that, this movie has the best bank robbery scene in the history of cinema.
For the vast majority of people watching this film, they will be thoroughly entertained, which is somewhat interesting considering the senseless violence, hooliganism, intense imagery, & mind control tactics that take place. Everyone will leave this film with a different interpretation, including a satisfaction for various individuals violated in the film, depending on your subconscious moral code. But that's what makes this film great, that in a world where violence is so frowned upon & outlawed, there exists a thirst for violence in each human, no matter good or evil, that has to be quenched at one point or another. The hooligans go around hooliganning, the bobbies & mind-control doctors go around beating & mind-raping the hooligans. The cure, in this film, for hooliganism, is to force-feed the individual to immense amounts of violent sensory overload. After treatment, at the very thought of a violent act, the reformed hooligan's own organism will become sick, vomit, and lack any sort of will to enact a crime. Here is where you get the title, "A Clockwork (machine) Orange (organic)", which meaning comes from the ability to control, like a machine, a human organism. Re: The system.
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