+8 million for the importance of habits. do you floss? start with that if you don't.
lol i'm not a caveman, i still take showers ocassionally and change my underwear ocassionally.
lol, it's an example from some internet fitness guru whose name i forget. he was making a point about roids: if you're not disciplined enough to floss, you're not even close to disciplined enough to take advantage of chemical enhancement. point is just that discipline and consistency are everything and forming habits is a way to make those easier.
is it just me or do vertecs often seem to be leaning a little bit? would make a big difference to measured heights if so, and be a pretty serious bug in the design.
why not rest in advance of regionals and try to get knee as near 100% as possible before you play? incremental improvement at practice between now and then likely to be minimal, not worth the risk.
- run 4.36km in 22:04 yep, right at that 5:03/km pace. seems to be the sweet spot for now. gonna start adding a little distance at a time for a while before i begin to add speed or frequency. picked a different route this time, to the cricket ground instead of the other direction, and it's almost exactly 1.9km from my house. pretty perfect: can just add laps for distance. the route is better lit and sidewalk in better condition that way, too. picked up pace to 4:07/km right at the end and that is not sustainable right now. eeeeasy does it.
- stretch
- GMB wrist mob
knee, shoulder, and now neck are all there in the background.
- scales x 5,5/leg tension headache/neckache started almost immediately on the upper right side of my neck/base of skull. would have done more of these but that was too weird. still there mildly, an hour later.
- front lever holds @3-5s x a bunch pretty solid
- handstand wall kick ups x a bunch pretty solid
- stretch
shoulder felt fine throughout. static holds don't seem to bother it.
- run 3.62km in 18:15 road. hot and humid and i think i was a little dehydrated to begin with. mild headache for most of this. overshot my turn and just called it. 5:02 pace felt very manageable otherwise.
w/r/t avishek mode: cool as long as you don't suddenly start making posts where you body-shame women. checked his instagram, was super disappointed to see all that bullshit on there. it's possible to make a point about the negative effects of unrealistic body expectations in media in general and bodybuilding media in particular without putting "FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL" over a before-and-after pic of a woman you don't know, and then talking about how you're more attracted to the before version.
For me, Penn and Teller: Fool Us is the greatest TV show of all time. Simple premise: Magicians try to do tricks that fool Penn and Teller, and the prize is that they get to appear in P&T's act in Vegas. Three reasons I love it:
1. Many of the tricks are incredible in their own right. Even the ones that don't fool the hosts are usually beautiful or amazing or both. 2. Penn and Teller are always kind and positive. The whole atmosphere on the show is one of supporting and sharing love for a weird, niche craft that is ultimately a really hard way to make a living for most of the people doing it professionally. Everybody feels good. It's wonderful. It's similar to the British show QI for that reason: everyone is rooting for each other. Watching people be generous is extremely gratifying. 3. When they get fooled, it's because the magician did something stupefying. Cases in point:
good news on the knee, and shoulder tbh .. if the knee keeps improving and allows you to get some more runs in (if your work schedule allows it), i'd be curious to see how you'd feel if you bumped up the run frequency a little. Could really loosen that shoulder up. These light runs & eventually some light intervals (relaxed/very submax 100's with walk back recovery) could be just the thing to promote more healing/adaptation.
jump rope can be pretty intense on the shoulders from my experience, and you'll get more ROM during running .. so i'd personally try and get more light runs in (if possible) & see what happens - as long as the knee isn't made worse by the runs of course.
personally i'd try to avoid ultimate for a bit, just to help try and not aggravate it alot. :/
peace!
i'm gonna add distance gradually before i add frequency, in part because it's easier with work and stuff and in part because i think not letting myself rest enough is part of the problem. that said, the knee started hurting almost immediately when i went back to tennis a month or so ago -- as soon as i had to decelerate to the forehand (right) side it was in pain. and it's been problematic off and on for years.
tbh what i really need to do is get back into PT mode like i did when i was spraining my ankle over and over in my early 20s.
jump rope doesn't bother the shoulder seemingly at all, so i'm gonna keep doing it here and there.
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lol i'm not a caveman, i still take showers ocassionally and change my underwear ocassionally.
