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Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« Reply #615 on: May 19, 2013, 08:53:30 am »
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I think you could go higher right now if you'd overemphasize your armswing. It's not the best armswing in the world IMO right now. Try to REALLY REALLY extend these arms when you jump. Granted, you might hit the ceiling.

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Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« Reply #616 on: May 20, 2013, 12:49:29 am »
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I think you could go higher right now if you'd overemphasize your armswing. It's not the best armswing in the world IMO right now. Try to REALLY REALLY extend these arms when you jump. Granted, you might hit the ceiling.

Thanks man, I'll focus on it more next time.  I'm pretty happy that I'm jumping this high at all atm, given I haven't really been doing anything special training-wise.

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Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« Reply #617 on: May 23, 2013, 01:28:33 am »
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Gym:

Foam roll warmup/activation

Squat: Warmup, 1x6@70kgs, 1x3@120kgs, 1x6@132.5kgs  :personal-record: (for full squat, 2.01xBW)

GHR: 3x5@BW --> easy, just getting back into it. The new GHR is better but harder as there's more of a downward angle.

Ran out of time for UB/core

Happy to get this today, was really not feeling it mentally after a shit day at work but whatever.

BW: 76.5kgs (morning)

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Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« Reply #618 on: May 23, 2013, 02:30:25 am »
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Good shit

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Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« Reply #619 on: May 28, 2013, 05:59:08 am »
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Well I was planning on doing some more SVJs this past weekend but on Thursday night I got a fucking exertion headache doing some stretching. Really hurt for about 15mins, then just kind of lingered over the next few days. I actually think I got a mini-exertion headache on the last rep of the last set of squats on Thursday but wasn't anything too bad. Then of course later I pushed it a bit too far and it struck me hard. I'm almost certain it was a combination of:
- holding my breath on the last rep (stupid)
- craning my neck on the last rep (even more stupid because LBSS already pointed it out)
- tight shoulder/neck muscles

So I took a few days off, did a light session today and feel a little better, although kind of felt it a bit later. Might look into getting a really good sports massage (probably long overdue) or maybe even chiro neck adjustment (read that it can help with exertion headaches).
 
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Foam roll warmup/activation

Squat: Warmup, 1x8@90kgs, 2x5@110kgs (easy, focusing on keeping head neutral and inhale-exhale on eccentric/concentric)

Random light UB

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Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« Reply #620 on: May 28, 2013, 09:19:11 am »
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be REALLY REALLY CAREFUL letting chiros near your neck.
Muscles are nonsensical they have nothing to do with this bullshit.

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https://www.savannahstate.edu/cost/nrotc/documents/Inform2010-thearmstrongworkout_Enclosure15_5-2-10.pdf

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Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« Reply #621 on: May 28, 2013, 10:19:09 am »
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Agreed. Chiros scare the shit out of me. My little sister went as part of some rehab therapy for an injury and now she can't go without it. If she doesn't go every few weeks it starts to be sore then eventually it progresses to pain until she goes back and gets 'adjusted'. Not cool.
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Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« Reply #622 on: May 28, 2013, 10:53:16 pm »
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be REALLY REALLY CAREFUL letting chiros near your neck.

Agreed. Chiros scare the shit out of me. My little sister went as part of some rehab therapy for an injury and now she can't go without it. If she doesn't go every few weeks it starts to be sore then eventually it progresses to pain until she goes back and gets 'adjusted'. Not cool.

Sure, I have heard my fair share of chiro horror stories too so it's not like I'm sprinting down to my local chiro or anything. It just kept popping up in different resources on exertion headaches that a chiro neck adjustment can help. But I think I'll invest the money in a good sports massage (will also be good for my piriformis pain that comes and goes) and work out the tension that I've got in my shoulder/neck.

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Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« Reply #623 on: May 29, 2013, 12:21:03 am »
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trigger point release/dry needling are worth a look. probably a significant amount of woo, as with chiropractic, but without the risk of them herniating a disc in your neck.
Muscles are nonsensical they have nothing to do with this bullshit.

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https://www.savannahstate.edu/cost/nrotc/documents/Inform2010-thearmstrongworkout_Enclosure15_5-2-10.pdf

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Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« Reply #624 on: May 29, 2013, 07:24:39 am »
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trigger point release/dry needling are worth a look. probably a significant amount of woo, as with chiropractic, but without the risk of them herniating a disc in your neck.

Definitely. I'm gonna book in with a deep tissue therapist guy who does all that stuff next week and just get him to work the living hell out of me. Can't get freaking headaches every time I squat. Also, what's woo? Lol.

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Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« Reply #625 on: May 29, 2013, 07:41:29 am »
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How do you know it's not a blood pressure issue or something else?

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Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« Reply #626 on: May 29, 2013, 10:30:02 am »
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trigger point release/dry needling are worth a look. probably a significant amount of woo, as with chiropractic, but without the risk of them herniating a disc in your neck.

Definitely. I'm gonna book in with a deep tissue therapist guy who does all that stuff next week and just get him to work the living hell out of me. Can't get freaking headaches every time I squat. Also, what's woo? Lol.

voodoo magic stuff, phenomena believed in far beyond the reach of actual scientific evidence.
Muscles are nonsensical they have nothing to do with this bullshit.

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https://www.savannahstate.edu/cost/nrotc/documents/Inform2010-thearmstrongworkout_Enclosure15_5-2-10.pdf

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Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« Reply #627 on: May 29, 2013, 10:22:05 pm »
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How do you know it's not a blood pressure issue or something else?

Well I did go to the doctor after it happened and my bp was 131/80...he didn't think it was high enough to cause an exertion headache, systolic a little high but not too bad. He also sent me for a CT scan which came back normal. He said it was most likely a musculoskeletal thing which I figured it was anyway, combined with the poor breathing and neck posture.

voodoo magic stuff, phenomena believed in far beyond the reach of actual scientific evidence.

Ah right, makes sense.

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Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« Reply #628 on: June 03, 2013, 05:38:40 am »
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Been taking it easy since last week, did a 5km fun run yesterday, pulled up pretty good, although my piriformis pain is still there. It doesn't really affect me when I'm running, just kind of bothers me a bit afterwards, goes away after a good stretch session. Gonna get it sorted out when I go to get some deep tissue therapy tomorrow.

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Re: acole14's journal - DUNK OR DIE
« Reply #629 on: June 08, 2013, 06:46:50 am »
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Well this exertion headache issue has disrupted my training a bit obviously. I decided to take most of last week pretty easy. I got an hour-long deep tissue massage and it was like torture. The therapist was good, had done a lot of years at AFL footy clubs. He said my traps and lower back were basically like concrete, had so much tension built up in them from training the last few years. He really worked out the trigger points and also did some dry needling in my glutes. He also said the annoying pain in my glute/ham was probably just tight lower back/glute medius muscles pulling on it. When he pushed hard on my left glute medius I could feel it radiating down my leg where the pain was so he's probably right. It was absolute hell though, getting all the sore spots worked on, but felt good afterwards, especially glute/ham pain.

Anyway I felt pretty good, so once I'd recovered from the beatdown he gave me I decided to try out a light track/gym session. Unfortunately I started to feel the headache come on after a few sets of pogos so I'm not ready yet. It went away very quickly but it seems at the moment any strong exertion effort will bring it on again so I need to rest more. I've read a lot of different BB forums and it seems like a very common thing: it's usually a squat/bench press movement that does it. These threads in particular have some good discussion:

http://board.crossfit.com/showthread.php?t=58659

http://community.myprotein.com/bodybuilding/34668-exertion-headache-squatting.html

Given I know I'm all-clear in terms of nasty brain stuff (thanks to a $350 CT scan that lasted 30secs), I'm pretty sure it's a combo of tight neck muscles and increased blood pressure from all the maximal squatting I've done over last 2-3 months that eventually leads to slight blood vessel damage in the neck/occipital muscles, which causes a headache. I've just got to take time off and let it heal like any other injury. Maybe 2-3 weeks, which sucks, but I just can't do anything at the moment, it's really annoying. Once I'm past it though it shouldn't be a problem, gonna make sure to keep a check on not just the tight muscle groups in my legs but also all over, and also proper breathing and not going near failure every time I squat. I might also finally incorporate some front squatting to give my shoulder/neck muscles a break from the bar. Frustrating to have to rest as I'm in a really interesting phase of my training (low BW, good relative strength, high jumps atm without much explosive plyos yet). But I don't want to have to take paracetamol before every gym session either so...