Gym & Misc General Health and Fitness Thread

[revival_mode]

i spewed after crossfit last night

my own fault after being so slack the past couple of months. the bloody assault bike got me

 

[Ligma]

Has anyone had continuous ankle sprains? I’ve currently just done my 3rd ATFL sprain in a 12 month span.

I feel like I can’t catch a break.

 

[revival_mode]

visiting DOMS central right now. hurts to breathe lmao

 

[Mofra]

visiting DOMS central right now. hurts to breathe lmao

Oh man first session back after a break always kills.
I've been cycling through squat variations the past few weeks, on Tuesday I did back squats for the first time in a couple of weeks and the DOMS in my inner thighs are ridiculous. Weirdly, I could still go for a slow recovery jog yesterday fro 20 minutes and felt fine everywhere else.

 

[Gralin]

So I'm still just building cardio fitness back up and getting my body used to regular work and recovery. Slowly slowly to try and avoid the injuries.

I've been riding, added walking in to mix it up and do some different work.

Last week the gym only had the cross trainers available while they were doing firmware updates and holy hell if that isn't hitting a bunch of different muscles to walking or riding

Still not sure that the movement on that is the best for my knees and ankles so will stick to mixing up the bike and treadmill for now

 

[peternorth]

Smashing some drumstick ice creams after a hard day of walking

 

[Gralin]

Started weights again this week to go with the cardio
Bloody DOMS

 

[Gralin]

Second weights session went a lot better thankfully lol

 

[Kram]

I seem to have way less issues with doms in middle age compared to a teenager, maybe just far smarter the way I go about it..

 

[raskolnikov]

i spewed after crossfit last night

my own fault after being so slack the past couple of months. the bloody assault bike got me

For my comp on the weekend my partner and I had to do 100 cals on the assault bike between us, followed by 100 double unders each. Pukie the Clown almost paid me a visit.

 

[phantom13]

Anyone ruptured the achillies? Trying to get an idea of the recovery timeline post surgery and it seems really varied.

 

[Kram]

A dislocated finger is about the only injury I've ever had, guess I must have just been very lucky.

 

[Tadpole]

First time back in the gym today after having had COVID last week. I need to force myself take it easy though, because I definitely feel weaker, and more sore and fatigued than before I got caught by it, and I haven’t even started the workout yet.

 

[Gralin]

First time back in the gym today after having had COVID last week. I need to force myself take it easy though, because I definitely feel weaker, and more sore and fatigued than before I got caught by it, and I haven’t even started the workout yet.

yeah i tried and failed dismally about a week after testing positive

took me a lot longer to get to the point where my body could keep up

 

[Mofra]

TBH it took me two months after Covid to get back to lifting the same weight & volume as pre-Covid.
Even now I still feel like my recovery takes longer, energy levels the next day take longer to recover, etc.

 

[Kram]

5+

 

[M Malice]

My Yoga studio started a new class today, Barre Yoga, it's based on ballet movements, 1 hour non stop movement centred on balance with some weights and balls thrown in as props, a surprisingly tough session.

 

[Mofra]

My Yoga studio started a new class today, Barre Yoga, it's based on ballet movements, 1 hour non stop movement centred on balance with some weights and balls thrown in as props, a surprisingly tough session.

Back in the day the Swans swapped one midweek training session for ballet training and the players were absolutely stuffed by the end of it. It can be brutal.

 

[Themanbun]

Back in the day the Swans swapped one midweek training session for ballet training and the players were absolutely stuffed by the end of it. It can be brutal.

Fair few players have used it for foot and ankle rehab:

Sam's new world

Sam Wright is enjoying a new lease on life as The Australian Ballet’s first Welfare and Development Coordinator.

www.nmfc.com.au

 

[Coolangatta]

Shoulder and neck pain is killing my exercise regimen at the moment; I must have overextended taking down the sail the other day, and it's worsened my shoulders which I think had rotator cuff problems and now's somehow stuffed my neck. But it'd be suicide to touch a barbell or dumbbell at the moment. I've been looking at some light band exercises I can do in "rehab" at the moment. It sucks to have these kinds of setbacks. If anyone's got some handy tips I'm all ears. It's probably worth getting looked at, but unfortunately now's not a good time. It'll have to wait.

 

[Coolangatta]

Neck pain's eased up a lot, almost better. My shoulders feel fine atm too, but I suspect later on in the day, there'll be a flare-up of pain again. Apparently, that indicates rotator cuff problems. I really need to get a proper warm-up routine nailed down.

 

[SnakeMan86]

Neck pain's eased up a lot, almost better. My shoulders feel fine atm too, but I suspect later on in the day, there'll be a flare-up of pain again. Apparently, that indicates rotator cuff problems. I really need to get a proper warm-up routine nailed down.

I throw my neck out at least once every six months, completely seizes up. Can feel its directly related to rotator cuff and just underneath my shoulderblade.
Did it again a week or so ago, Got a massage at she started to work on my shoulder, felt as rough and bumpy as a 15 year olds face, and totally knotted up. Necks are horrid.

 

[Coolangatta]

I throw my neck out at least once every six months, completely seizes up. Can feel its directly related to rotator cuff and just underneath my shoulderblade.
Did it again a week or so ago, Got a massage at she started to work on my shoulder, felt as rough and bumpy as a 15 year olds face, and totally knotted up. Necks are horrid.

How did it impact your weight training? I haven't trained since my neck pain; it feels way too risky, especially since the shoulders sometimes hurt.

 

[SnakeMan86]

How did it impact your weight training? I haven't trained since my neck pain; it feels way too risky, especially since the shoulders sometimes hurt.

Normally I'm a meathead, so I keep training. Skip shoulder workouts and anythint thats overhead, and legs remove squats amd deads, just do leg presses and, curls, extensions etc.
This time I gave it a good week and a bits rest, no weights.

 

[Coolangatta]

Normally I'm a meathead, so I keep training. Skip shoulder workouts and anythint thats overhead, and legs remove squats amd deads, just do leg presses and, curls, extensions etc.
This time I gave it a good week and a bits rest, no weights.

Yeah, I've just been doing cardio and very basic neck and shoulder rehab exercises I've seen on YouTube with and without bands. I was thinking of doing a few full-body band workouts next week, just the two lightest bands.

If the neck's feeling much better (it's improving but not out of the woods yet), then I will do my GZCLP without a rack template in two weeks but only do Zercher squats and trap bar deadlifts for T1 lifts and do everything else as a T3 lift. Floor pressing and DB overhead etc., at a weight I can do for 15 reps or more shouldn't bother me, depending on how I feel. It's weight I can only do for ten reps or less that I'm wary of.