Azinine's get swole journal

[coolcolj]

about your right should being cocked up, that's bit like me
I guess you use a mouse and computer a lot?
And alway carry bags with your right shoulder?

upper traps are probably tighter on that side - fascia and all that jazz.
That happens over time from bad living habits etc
Gonna take a whole lot of foam rolling and change of your work/sitting/ movement patterns to fix

 

[coolcolj]

posture stuff - read all parts

http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=472224

part 5
http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=535872

 

[Sculelos]

Pain when your squatting is obviously not good and I would look into coolcolj's post for some good info on how to go about fixing it. Besides that your doing good though. Nice work so far your progress has been good.

 

[Azinine]

about your right should being cocked up, that's bit like me
I guess you use a mouse and computer a lot?
And alway carry bags with your right shoulder?

yes and yes. Foam rolling is now a part of my daily routine.

 

[Azinine]

posture stuff - read all parts

http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=472224

part 5
http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=535872

I read it. Can't say I got a lot out of it, though. That's a lot of technical shiat! It's now bookmarked, though. I'll reread it multiple times. Definitely gonna take the tests and figure out exactly what my problems are. Thanks for the links.

 

[coolcolj]

your just basicly tight in the upper traps and a few other areas from holding a certain posture from long periods of time and then the fascia molds intself into that position. Same issues as me

 

[Azinine]

5/24/08, Week 6, Day 3

I postponed this workout until today hoping that my hip would feel better. It didn't, so I'm officially taking a break from squats. Hopefully I won't have to take more than a week off. Once the pain goes away, I'll back the weight up a little and start over. So, an abbreviated workout today. New PR on the bench.

Squats: none

Bench: 95x5, 135x5, 140x5, 165x5, 195x3 (PR), 140x8

Pendlay Row: 75x5, 90x5, 110x5, 135x5, 150x5, 110x8

My hip bothers me a little while rowing as well. Not too bad, though. Will do lots of foam rolling and stretching this coming week. Will also make an effort to up the cardio. I need to lose fat.

 

[Azinine]

5/26/08, Week 7, Day 1

I woke up with no hip pain today! Woo hoo! So, like the knucklehead that I am, I decided I would start squatting again today. I started over with last weeks weights and narrowed my stance a bit as this seems to help. Everything was going well until the final set, then the pain came back. Still hurting now, but not as bad as is has been in the past. I think I'll skip Wednesday's squats for sure, maybe the rest of the week. It's just that I really hate to miss squats. Feels like I don't get a good workout when I do.

Squats: 105x5, 130x5, 160x5, 185x5, 210x5

As I said, the hip pain came back on the final set. Also, the last set was pretty difficult for me. I think the narrowed stance along with the pain I was feeling accounted for this.

Bench: 100x5, 120x5, 145x5, 170x5, 195x5 (PR)

Almost at 200lbs! 195x5 was pretty tough. Starting to get scary without a spotter.

Pendlay Row: 75x5, 95x5, 115x5, 130x5, 150x5

The hip pain made me lose my form on these. Because the hip was hurting I didn't bend at the knees and hip enough to have my back parallel to the floor. I noticed that I was rounding my back a bit on the last two sets.

 

[ximor]

Grats on the bench man! Im on my way to it.

 

[Azinine]

Grats on the bench man! Im on my way to it.

Thanks man.