[graedy]

Yesterday I played arround by doing some alternating jumping lunges and burpees.
Today I played some bball for the first time in years.

[graedy]

- Lunges 3x10x40kg

- BP 10x2x100kg/12x80kg [a high rep set after the heavy sets really feels great]

- BOR 5x5x80kg [my lower back is teh weak]

- DB rows 20x35kg


A great session.
On thursday I plan on doing backsquats, frontsquats and deadlifts. Why? - Because from then on I can!

[graedy]

Something about shoulderhealth from my own experience:
At the age of 18 I started having problems with my right shoulder. After any pressing movement it went numb and sometimes hurt for days. I went to docs but the massage treatment they prescribed me didn't help. Soon thereafter the helathproblems due to the UC overshadowed everything and the shoulder just had to stay as it was.
I hoped that the long layoff from lifting due to the UC would have at least one benefit: The shoulder gets rest and heals up.
But this wasn't the case. So I started reading lots of stuff about shoulderhealth and trying it out.
I found out that the muscles the pain and numbness originated in were my infraspinatus, supraspiantus and teres minor.
Simply adding external rotations and shoulderdislocations didn't do the trick. The shoulder got better but not really good. Even after weeks.
So I further educated myself and found out that the internal rotation ROM of my righ shoulder was way smaller than that of my left. External rotation ROM was the same for both shoulders.
On top of that I found out that my neck was tighter than it should be and discovered the magic of foamrolling and triggerpointwork.
So the list for shoulder pre/rehab was the following:

- Cuban presses
- Shoulderdislocations
- Internal rotation (I lay face down on a bench, bring the upper arms parallel to the floor while the lower arms are vertical, I hold a DB in each hand, then I rotate backwards)
- YTWLs (there is really no better way to warm up your shoulders
- Foamrolling and triggerpoint work
- tons of neckstretching

I did this for the last 3-4 weeks on a pretty regular basis. Most of it before I did any pressing.
My shoulder isn't 100% yet. But it feels so much better I really can't believe it. After the last benchsession which was pretty high volume and high intensity (for my weak ass) the shoulder was completelly fine. Just 4 weeks ago it would have been numb for days afterwards.

The articles on t-nation on shoulderhealth are really great stuff. It works, you learn a lot as everything is explained and it is still pretty easy to understand.


The only exercise my shoulder still dislikes is CHINS. I will see if doing only 3/4 ROM will solve this. IF not I will probably cut them out completelly. As it is only the underhandgrip that causes the problems, it is not that big of a loss.

[viel cazzo]

Gready I'm so very thankful to be able to read your ordeal and se a happy ending I spent 3 days reading about everything you went through and everything you're doing now and I've gotta say you should look into doing motivational speeches for people suffering with dibilitating UC.

I myself was diagnosed with UC and after 3 years of taking medications and so forth to keep it under control (never worked and I gained a ton of weight from the steroids) I went to another Dr. who found I had a severe case of IBD coupled with ulcerated intestine from all the medications/bowl movements a day (Sometimes up to 30).

This crap can ruin your life. In the last year I've managed to listen to my Dr. and watch my diet and CANNOT drink any alcohol at all. My sympthoms are 85% under control now and I am starting to go after my dream of competing in a Golden Gloves at an old ass age.

Either way thanks for keeping your chin up dude as stories like yours make me realize how good life can be when you choose to live and enjoy yourself along the way no matter how bad things may get.

[graedy]

Thanks for the kind words. I am glad you enjoyed reading my log. It is also very nice to hear that someone got the disease under pretty good control and thus avoiding the surgery or a life of suffering.
I don't know if something like motivational speeches for UC patietns exists at all. But I am active in a a large self help forum and always tell people about the great results I had with the surgery.
I wish you all the luck in the world in achieving your goal of competing in a Golden Gloves.
And if the UC comes back stronger and one day I can tell you that with good surgeons the surgery is not that bad of an option.

- Pullups 3x5x10kg [getting back in the groove of weighted pullups]

- Lunges 3x12x40kg

- Strict OHP 3x5x50kg [getting back in the groove as well]

- some random rowing on the Concept II rowingmachine and some techniquework with Jan.

I pretty much made the decision to try to get myself ready for the CII competition in the end of august.
It will be teams of 4 people against each other while each teammemeber has to row 1000m on the Concept II rowing machine. I will only compete there if I am able to put up a time that gives me a place in the first team of the rowing club. To be good in the 1000m on the CII one needs strength, muscular endurance, cardio and lactic acid tolerance.
So pretty much the whole package.
I hate rowing on the CII but the challenge is just too big to not take it.

[hunto]

Originally Posted by graedy

Thanks for the kind words. I am glad you enjoyed reading my log. It is also very nice to hear that someone got the disease under pretty good control and thus avoiding the surgery or a life of suffering.
I don't know if something like motivational speeches for UC patietns exists at all. But I am active in a a large self help forum and always tell people about the great results I had with the surgery.
I wish you all the luck in the world in achieving your goal of competing in a Golden Gloves.
And if the UC comes back stronger and one day I can tell you that with good surgeons the surgery is not that bad of an option.

- Pullups 3x5x10kg [getting back in the groove of weighted pullups]

- Lunges 3x12x40kg

- Strict OHP 3x5x50kg [getting back in the groove as well]

- some random rowing on the Concept II rowingmachine and some techniquework with Jan.

I pretty much made the decision to try to get myself ready for the CII competition in the end of august.
It will be teams of 4 people against each other while each teammemeber has to row 1000m on the Concept II rowing machine. I will only compete there if I am able to put up a time that gives me a place in the first team of the rowing club. To be good in the 1000m on the CII one needs strength, muscular endurance, cardio and lactic acid tolerance.
So pretty much the whole package.
I hate rowing on the CII but the challenge is just too big to not take it.

I'm just glad the panther av is back.
Badass.

[graedy]

Not only the avatar is back. I am back too.
So 12 weeks ago I had my last surgery. Which means that by now my scars should be fully healed.
Will really celebrate this tomorrow with tons of squats and deads. But of course I also had to do something today. So I grabbed the DBs I have at home, build the heaviest one possible with this set of weights (30kg), and did:

- strict single arm DBOHP 2x8x30kg



PRs to break:

- Pullups 5x25kg,2x40kg
- Pushpress 1x80kg
- Bench 1x130kg, 8x100kg
- Benchpulls 5x110kg
- Dips 5x+40kg
- Deadlift 1x160kg (teh weak!)
- Squat 1x115kg, 20x90kg (pathetic, I know)
- Frontsquat 1x105kg
- Overheadsquat 4x80kg
- 1000m on the CII in 3:10 mins

Once this is done this log will be closed and a new one will be opened.
So it begins...

[graedy]

- Pullups [parallel grip]
6xbw/4x10kg/3x4x15kg/4x20kg/4x25kg/14xbw

[I need a proper dipbelt, the fucking chain hurts like a bitch. Apart from that the reps were fast and easy.]


- FS
5x40/5x60/5x72,5/2x5x82,5/5x87,5kg

[nice and deep, the olyshoes rock]


- Bench
3x85/3x95/3x3x105/6x95kg


- DL
5x65kg/3x95kg/3x105kg/3x120kg/3x130kg


- CII rowing



That is what I call training!

[takeahnase]

Originally Posted by graedy

PRs to break:

- Bench 1x130kg,
- Squat 1x115kg,

[Stonebreaker]

Graedy is deadlifting again. The world is that much better for it.