last post on this blog

I've decided to start using the other blog I started since it's been suggested that 'accident perrone' might not be the best title for a blog. I've always thought it was kind of funny and didn't think too much about it but after some comments from Geoff, Frankie, and Marty among others I guess it's time to switch. The new/other blog is http://mothwork.blogspot.com, mothwork is a pseudo acronym for M.y O.wn T.wo H.ands work...I figured its appropriate since I do a boatload of grip work, any artwork i do is with my hands, and i'm starting massage therapy...so if you have a link to this blog, i'd appreciate you linking to the new one instead. Thanks and thanks for reading

back from t-phase

This is exactly how I felt during and after this last weekend, t-phase answered so many questions, even those I didn't know I had....everything was so thorough and now the only question I have is how to integrate and apply the new information. It was a great collection of people and I thoroughly enjoyed all I learned and hope I contributed at least a fraction of what I received. I've begun using some of the assessments and plan on doing more. To get practice with some of the more hands on work, I've decided to start offering 'free sessions' until I get my massage therapy license, this way I can practice but not step beyond my scope. I will be asking that anyone that I work to make a donation. As it gets closer to christmas, I will be taking all of the donations and using it for toys for tots and a local food bank. I figure it's a win, win, win situation. I'm hoping to collect a decent chunk of change over the next 6 weeks or so.

Welcome to Asheboro...

One of the best climbing areas in North Carolina is open again, great problems, lots of things to try, barely an hour drive, and plenty of areas to explore, there's only one problem....the rock is sharp! Finger tips like that are not far from the norm, the pic is of a friend's hands. The crazy thing is he did the problem that did that to him the next go, bloody tips and and all....sometimes i wonder about the sport I've chosen...but then I see another boulder and the previous thoughts disappear. All in all I had one of the best days, if not the best day I've ever had climbing outside, I sent a bunch of problems and no pain...aside from my tips and some residual DOMS from playing on a 100ft slip and slide for an hour the other day in the rain. It seems that I've recovered just in time for an incredible season of climbing, I can't wait.

Some older climbing pics

Thats me spotting at the bottom in the top pic. I know I'm not climbing but it's still a good pic.

Stupid human tricks and bracing...

I can't help it, I have an affinity for stupid human tricks, if i see someone do something, there's that little voice in my head that goes, "huh, that looks cool, I wonder if I can do it?" Whether its, a muscle up, rip a license plate, forward spinal wave, doesn't really matter, anything is fair game. It's a great way to see what one's capability is but there is the potential for danger. Usually I try to keep things in the RPE range of 7-9, and I'll admit that I may be a little more subjective with it than I should sometimes but that's the impulsive ADHD nature. So for the longest time while i was injured all i could do was mobility and grip work, but I avoided bracing so as not to mess up the healing process, let me tell you ripping a deck with no abdominal tension is much harder but it is possible. So one of the idea from Zhealth is to use appropriate tension for the activity, So if I don't need to add it in i try to stay away from it. So recently when I went through the timber ties I really didn't use any bracing, it didn't require it, I only used enough tension in my hands to take care of it. Now I do brace if I need to but I find I have to do a lot of relaxation work to counter the excessive use of tension. Plus I figure if I can do this well without bracing once I start working it back in my strength should reflect the additive nature of it.

One last little workout...

I finished up my one piece of scroll work and started on the other. Hands are feeling a little beat up. But later when I was reading another guy's blog, Adam Glass, he listed a bending workout of his so I thought I'd give it a go since I still have a bunch of timber ties, granted these are timber ties not 'real' 60D nails but regardless I went through 80 of them in 22 minutes, i used four different styles, double over hands high, double over hands low, double under, and reverse. I didn't really bother to wrap them, I just folded a small section of suede over them and kept going. Over all it was about an 75% effort. today hands feel pretty good and it hasn't made my neural tension any worse. I'm psyched.

keeping busy

Picked up some more metal today to work on my scroll work. It's been a while since I've been able to do much I so I figured I'd do some and picked up some 1"x1/8"x6', it makes for some nice ribbon effects but it sure is a pain to twist. So far I've got about an hour in and I'm nowhere near done with it. but it's turning out pretty well, I tend to start with an idea and see where the metal takes me. I'll post once I'm done.

Got in some more climbing, just about 45 minutes, focused on endurance. Forearms are still pretty sore but everything else is doing pretty well, walking feels normal, so I don't think I've screwed anything up....Bonus. I imagine I'll be getting some more in as it gets colder, especially since from mid Nov to after New years, I won't have any class to take. Plus Asheboro has opened up legitimately, it's a super sweet bouldering area not much more than an hour away. So day trips are totally doable, I'm psyched. There's a few things I'd love to do there, plus lots more to explore.

Next goal is to start getting my act together to lay out some serious training. I've learned if I plan ahead, I make great progress, it's just that sometimes after you spend most of your day doing it for others,working on yourself isn't always high on the list. But I plan to crank this season, so it's time to get down to it.

stuff, things, and minutiae

Went climbing yesterday for about two hours, Jole hasn't climbed in about 7 months and the scrawny bastard still cranks, oh well. I was good to climb but it may not have been so good for the body, I think we spent about 5 minutes warming up and the rest of the time spazzing like semi lobotomized monkeys...but i mean that in a good way. today i hurt some, i'm not sure if its from that or if its my stomach just feeling messed up from poor food and stress, time will tell.

I started another blog just to keep myself occupied. Nothing training related but it helps.

Clients have started bringing phonebooks again for me, which helps since I've gone through about 30 in the last week and I was down to about 4 or 5, and no Katie I haven't gotten around to the atlanta one yet, but I did leave some of the other torn books by it...it serves as a warning to it that it's time is coming...

I going to pick up some metal to start doing some more scroll work today, so if all goes well I'll have some new pieces soon.

Datsit...rambling done...

Killing time...

I haven't been writing for a while but I really need something to do, i mean really need to, so this will have to work for now. I finally got started climbing again and it felt great, actually better than great, I hardly lost much of anything, I'd expected to show up and suck, it's the way layoffs usually go, this time it was like I took 4 days off not 4 months. The only thing different this time besides being lighter was doing lots of Z. I climbed over a week ago and haven't made it back in yet, hopefully tomorrow, I have my good friend coming down to visit and he's always done for some plastic pullin. You know someone's good when they drop everything(he's in med school right now) to come help out a friend....I've never really considered him a friend, he's always been more of a brother, so that's something to look forward to.

I just finished ripping about 12 phone books and still feel pretty good, no hand or body pain...yet, but all in all pretty good. I'm trying to get ready for doing a potential fund raiser, not sure if I'll be doing decks of cards or phonebooks but either way it's good to be doing something, I'll probably start doing some more scrollwork, might as well turn what ever all these feelings are into something productive, sure I could work on some articles or future plans, but my head really isn't there right now, and as Brett says there's nothing cooler than making metal succumb to flesh and bone, I think he said it but he may not have, but I associate it with him, so there you have it.

I'd like to write more but my head really isn't in it for now, I'm sure I'll have something to say later but everything is a little overwhelming now.

So many thoughts...

I got an email recently asking me to describe the differences between Z health and CST, now granted I have much more experience with Z but I think I'm in the position to answer this reasonably well but I thought I'd ramble on a little bit and go for a more general slant on joint mobility.

I've been thinking alot about joint health and as the saying goes you are only as old as your connective tissue, I see many facets and hopefully other people with chime in but until then this is what I've been thinking...I think of everything from a loading standpoint (I'm going to avoid delving into nutritional aspects and anatomy specifics), there's volume, intensity, speed, complexity, and precision. My thoughts on volume and intensity come from Pavel's writings and those he cites, speed and precision come from Z health, and complexity from CST. I understand there are probably some semantic differences in how people view this so I'll try to clarify...coming from an ADD individual this may be a little murky but hopefully not...In both Super Joints and Beyond Bodybuilding Pavel mentions two extremes heavy lockouts and supports and then high rep sets, I usually explain it like this: with respect to intensity, if you can do something with a hundred pounds then using one pound isn't much, and when it comes to volume if you can do something one hundred times then doing it once isn't much more than a drop in the bucket....Now I know the reason for this is actually more that by doing heavy supports it's like resetting the threshold higher for the joints and by doing them you decrease the level that joints may shut down to protect the body during exercise and with the high rep movements its more of a bathing the joints in fluid by repeatedly moving them allowing the structure to be bathed and flushed out by fluids and nutrients but like I said I'm talking generally. When it comes to speed and precision this is where Z comes in for me. A lot of mobility programs are big movements and while it may be great for warming up the larger movements allow for compensations to creep in unknowingly...if you can't refine how can you possible intregrate properly? Z is a systematic method for regaining and refining your movement on a joint by joint basis as well as ways of integrating properly. If you start with R-phase it mentions 4 speeds for a reason , they all matter. Slow lets you find the gaps in your movement and gives you time to mentally assess what's going on cognitively rather than assuming you're doing everything else right beside the movement you're focusing on. When you're going slow, you'll frequently find 'jumps' or 'rachets' I think these are the gaps that your body is uncomfortable with. When you speed up the movement it's likely if not certain that you'll skip over these gaps unknowingly. Think about it like this with music as an analogy, a digital signal is made up of a bunch of small pieces that when joined together make a seemingly continuous wave, as opposed to an analogue signal which is actually continuous with no small steps but rather a smooth shape. I think that Z takes your body from a digital to an analogue signal. since there are no uncertain gaps the body is able to make a smooth transition from one joint position to another, so do you want your body to guess where it's going or to know? I'll take the later. On the other end of the spectrum is sport speed, this is quick, it's supposed to be, not to many sports happen in slo-mo, unless you're watching an instant replay. If slow shows you where you're uncertain, fast shows you where you're body is uncomfortable. In R-phase most all movements are either front and back, side to side, or circles, and in I-phase figure eights get added in, each of these cover more surface area within the entire circumference that the joint can cover. While Z gives the template to understand movement, CST puts it out there a little more in black and white. If you think about 4 quadrants like in a graph, you have a figure 8, an infinity, diagonal infinity left to right, and diagonal right to left. After infinities there are cloverleafs and finally waves, I'm assuming that since all of these take place in what is essentially a 2-D grid I would think that changing levels to incorporate even more complexity is possible but Z-health's S-phase takes care of this with position specific and believe me just playing with speed and the basic movements provide more to work with than many may realize.

There are other aspects to go into like open versus close chain but I think that is better handled later.

I've said before that Z health lets the body move the way it's supposed to instead of the way it has to. I tend to compensate well with movements so I need the precision first other wise I trick my self into thinking what I think and what I do are the same and in the past this hasn't been the case. I like all the different systems and I've gotten a lot out of each one and they all have a lot to offer just make sure that what you're looking for in what you currently lack is what you actually need.

Well I managed to get in 2 different sessions with Dr. Cobb, and it was ridiculously productive to say the least. For the first time in about 3 months I feel like I'm moving normally, my pelvis no longer feels as 'dumb' as it had been. It's not quite perfect but instead of small steps forward, I got in one heck of a big leap. My right side no longer feels squishy or soft, it has evened out to be like the other side. My abs are actually firing and helping me function, they've been turned off for a little bit. I got the go ahead to start loading linearly which helps a lot mentally. So the current plan isn't too far off of what I've been doing. I'll be focusing on bone rhythms for the linear stuff, I'll be doing some I-phase drills for rotation, some S-phase for fun, and finally I'll be starting some climbing...it'll be about 5-6 grades lower than where I left off but I could care less, I'll get to go do some sport climbing with Jes and enjoy being outside, just the thought of climbing puts a big smile on my face and I should be able to enjoy most of the season which I didn't think I'd get to this year...I'm psyched. I didn't get to enjoy much of R-phase since I have a bunch of other stuff on my plate but what I did get to see was excellent as always. It was great seeing a bunch of the RKC community at the cert. I also got to pick John DuCane's brain on some qigong ideas and their relation to what I'll be doing in my massage therapy class. I swear it's almost a problem, there's so much information to take in, synthesize and apply, it's like I start to get a handle on what's going on and then I get off on a tangent and see something new to explore and add in...it's a good thing I love learning.

Z-health is back in town

I've been waiting for this for awhile, I can get my hip checked out and see what I need to change on my game plan for my recovery. I have two sessions tentatively scheduled with Dr. Cobb...should be a good learning experience, I have a lot of questions related to both myself and my current educational endeavor. So until things change or I get new info I'm continuing on with my workout plan.

Today's:

superset
Varied grip chins 4x8
Dips 4x8

30 sec pressing
30 sec overhead kb hold
30 sec body rows on rings
30 sec hold on rings

rest one minute and repeat

Mills 15lb clubbell drop set 50/50, 40/40, 30/30, 20/20, 10/10

Thats it for now.

another day in...

Haven't posted in a while, been fighting a cold in addition to everything else on my plate. I seem to have the exact opposite problem as most people, I keep dropping weight regardless of what I do, I'm hoping that as I'm able to keep working out more that I'll be able to creep back up to a more normal weight. I weighed in at 160 even fully clothed which puts me at the lightest I've been in about 4 years, the last time I was this low I had spent a week in the hospital....not fun. Since I was feeling better I did get a little workout in today. The other day I did a set of chinups as a test to see how everything would hold up, a few days later, no pain so it was time to up the ante.

Today's workout:

Chinups and Dips superset - 10/6, 10/8, 10/10

Mills 15lb clubbell drop set 30/30, 20/20, 10/10, 5/5

Overall felt pretty good RPE on superset got to a 7 on the last rep of the last set, probably should have stopped at 8 instead of 10 but I'm stubborn and I did them without using excess tension next time I'll stick with sets of 8 max. I want to work my way up to a single set of 30 eventually and then onto a set of 40 and 50, somewhat of a long term goal, I've never been much of an endurance guy but I should be able to do at least 40 straight if I plan on climbing at the level I want to again. I have time I just need to make sure I pace my self and remember it isn't a race.

Forward progress

Haven't really posted workout specifics so here are the last couple.

Wednesday:
Mills 10lb Clubbell Drop set switching hands every number 40/40, 30/30, 20/20, 10/10. RPE 4-5, RT 8-9, RPD 1-2.

Prone Single leg raises 5/5 x 3

Friday:
Mills 10lb Clubbell Drop set again 50/50, 40/40, 30/30, 20/20, 10/10
RPE 5, RT 8-9 (started working on integrating pegboard drill while doing these) RPD 2ish Heart rate at end 128.

Prone Single leg raises 5/5 x 3 with leg once in neutral, once in external rotation, and once in internal rotation.

I've been working on my internal rotation a lot, I've realized that my knee circles and my pegboard have been more ankle and a lot less hip than it should be. Doing the leg raises with the different leg positions was very interesting. The hardest were internally rotated, I really had to focus on the pelvis staying still and avoid going lordotic, it wasn't difficult effort wise but focus wise it was really hard. Before any one says anything about the numbers of mills, I really didn't plan on doing some many I was focusing on form so much that I really got into it and before I knew it I'd done a bunch...my body hasn't started revolting from it so I'll keep paying attention to form and structure and keep plodding forward. I do have to admit I did do one thing I shouldn't have .... I wasn't really thinking and while I was holding onto a pullup bar I did a front lever...I didn't really think to much about it because it was always something I used to do just playing around, but no harm, no foul...hopefully....

Catching up...

I've been doing a lot, working full time, going to school full time, helping plan a wedding, healing, looking for a house...it's fun but it's a lot. So I haven't had as much time to post as I'd like but there's only one way to fix that and that's to write more in the small periods I have free. I've started adding in some clubbell work to get in some more degrees of freedom in my movement. I've been focusing on mills because...for one...I like them and because they also add in another way for me to focus on keeping a neutral pelvis during rotation about a longitudinal axis, which is really important for me if I want to get back into climbing...and I really do. I'm thinking I'm going to start back pretty soon, it's been over 3 months which is the longest break I've ever had in climbing. If I do start back I'm going to be using a 'soft work' approach in climbing and as I get better start adding in some 'hard work' out side of climbing until I can get back to normal. If you haven't heard of hard and soft work, it comes from CST or circular strength training. I really like the generalized model of it for training even though it was designed in reference to martial art skill acquisition, I think it is the answer to designing a model of training for climbing. If I do start back soon I'll be playing by my current rules....RPE of nothing higher than a 5-6, RT of nothing less than a 7, and RPD of nothing more than 2-3. Although this can be somewhat subjective, this seems to fit my head best and gives me the reminder of guidelines that are important.

I've started another term of my massage therapy program. I'm really enjoying it, we are doing a lot of hands-on work, which is why I'm there...well, that and to really force me to get as good as I can get with my anatomy knowledge. I wish I didn't have class 4 nights a week until 1030 followed by a half hour drive home and then try to get ready for bed since I have a 530 client everyday...but I keep telling my self I can do anything for 6 months. I'm really looking forward to T-phase and all the information that comes with it...I love application.

what you know and what you don't

the more I learn the more I want to learn, I have a real thirst for knowledge, the only problem is there never seems to be an ending point. In the last several years i've continued to pursue more information, sometimes more than I can possibly assimilate and apply in a single shot. And each time I start down a new avenue I end up looking at all sorts of random studies and websites. since i'm in a massage therapy program I've been looking at a lot of different things. most recently these two sites....http://www.massagetherapy.com/articles/index.php/article_id/236 and http://biotensegrity.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=4&Itemid=29 (you'll have to forgive me again for some reason when I do this on Jes's mac the embed link icon doesn't show up and I'm a little lazy to embed it myself...sorry) the first article covers some of the science of how massage works with respect to piezoelectricity. The second lists a bunch of papers from Dr. Levin I just kept reading so I didn't list one article but a page with a bunch. One of the ones I really liked was about the scapula as a sesamoid bone. It brings up how fascia and it's role makes the concept of leverage and fulcrums inadequate when looking at function. It also touches on how serratus anterior disfunction may be related to breathing. for some reason I seem to be seeing a lot of material in reference to breathing recently, I'm not really looking for it but it keeps showing up. I think that the role of breathing has been downplayed or glanced over in a lot of areas well that and vision but that comes more from my experience with Z and s-phase, my interest in breathing comes more from my experience with CST and now with my current recovery. As I've read more about physical culture, breathing was frequently focused, and although my time with the RKC concepts bring up some topics related to breathing i.e. Naked Warrior and Power to the People, mention ways to amplify strength and improve safety with breath, the depth of understanding and application haven't been quite like I'd prefer.

Reading this material makes me think how much further I have to go. It's been a little while that I've actually had to read something a couple of times to really get what the author was talking about. I'm really enjoying being back in a school setting, it's really getting my mind in the mode of massive absorption. I figure I'll keep taking in information and eventually I have the time to really play with it.

On some other notes todays workout has been neural warmup variations about 4-5 times and today I did some rowing on a Concept 2 rower. my previous times have been pretty good, I've done 500m in 1min27 and 1000m in under 3mins. which regardless of age and weight would put me right at the top 50 in the world if I looked at the site right, I never really trained much at rowing, I think that my climbing and kettlebell work helped alot. Today i did 500 meters in about 2 minutes, nothing spectacular by any stretch but it was great to get in some other activity. We'll see how it goes.

another day in....

Still doing snatches with 8kg today I did 20/20, 20/20. I've cut out the back pressure/diaphragmatic holds as a separate activity. Instead I've started focusing on a deep inhale at the top of the snatch. It really adds to the amount of 'smooth' extension I can achieve. I think that my form may actually not been as crisp as it should have been. The weight was light and because of it I think I may have been going lordotic without fully realizing it. So with the deep diaphragmatic breath and just enough glute tension I was able to take care of it, and it was a different feeling all together. Thats the thing with all of the Z concepts, close is good, but precise is better, and as long as your willing to keep sticking to it the precision gets 'easier'. Not so much to do but at least to be aware of it. As I do more with the breathing, I'll post more, it's a new avenue for me but I think there's a lot to gain from it.

so far so good

I've gotten in another session, i'd call it a workout but it's not so much work as it is a day to day test. I'm going to keep using the snatch for a while. I really like how i really open up with them, I'm not getting any pain in my abdomen and the regular pain I've been having in my lumbar area has been significantly better for the last few days. After my brief session on thursday, I felt fine during, immediately after, and for a while after that. Then I started experiencing some discomfort in my chest, if I raised my arm into flexion it got worse and as I raised it it felt like something was pulling and grabbing from the inside. So I held some pressure on a section of my chest to keep the fascia still and then if I raised my arm back into flexion there was no pain. So I did some overhead arm circles and a few other mobility drills with my arm overhead all while maintaining pressure onto my chest. Since then no more problems and I got in the following:
snatches 15/15, 15/15 8kg
diaphragmatic breathing 3 10second holds 3 times

Also Yesterday Jes and I taught a kettlebell workshop down in fayetteville. This was the first one that we have done together. It was a lot of fun working together and the workshop went really well. I did a bunch of talking since I'm still a while off from being back to normal which means Jes did a lot of demonstrating, most of the time with the 24kg. She's an excellent instructor. We had a good crew of people that did an excellent job working and learning. We had the request to come back in another 6-8 weeks depending on schedules so that should be a lot of fun.

All in all I look to be having a pretty good start back. I have a lot of tools at my disposal and access to some great minds pick. I can see being back to where I left off but better, I'll have more balance within my body and more knowledge to decrease some issues in the future. I'm going to progress slowly to do what I can to make this more likely to turn out as a stumble rather than a big fall.

Starting back...

This has been tough, I haven't really been able to actually do much more than just some basic R and I phase work, no exercise to really speak of. I know that some others, like geoff, call mobility work strength training and I agree but there is more to it than that personally I like to move more than just my body, I like to push forward and to feel systemically like i've done something not just neurologically. The circular strength training system refers to 3 wings, you have open and closed chain mobility, bodyweight movement through all degrees of freedom, and strength training, they talk about inner bag, outer bag, and double bag. All I've been able to do is focus on the mobility and for a while it wasn't much mobility because frankly I was scared of doing more damage, just because I could do something didn't mean I wasn't compensating and I had no idea what the ramifications would be. So this left me with just having to wait and see, I had intended to wait until the Z-assessment had my gait back to normal before I planned on doing any real activity. This sounded great in theory but I got to the point where I 'had' to move, so I did some snatches and swings with a 12lb kettlebell and then I played the waiting game, was three sets of 10 too much....turned out it wasn't and in fact my movement felt much better. After talking with geoff I realize that I had lost the ability to breathe diaphragmatically. So I've added work on that in too, in a grease the groove fashion. On the whole I'm feeling much better. Unfortunately I've lost about 12lbs some of it muscle but most of it fat. Body fat was at about 5% when I checked this last time. So for now the plan is a basic progressive overload working back up to where I left off, I'm not really going to worry too much about cycling the weights instead I plan on focusing on my RPE and RT. I have enough outside stress of working full time and going to school fulltime and helping plan a wedding among other things to really be able to focus on numbers and lbs. So today's workout is:
superset
3 sets of snatches 10/10 8kg and
back pressure crunch for 10 sec

nothing fancy, nothing tough, right now I'm focusing on making sure my progress is forward and safe, the same I'd do for any of my clients.

we are never balanced, we are always balancing

This is a silhouette of a slackliner. I was originally introduced to slacklining through climbing over a decade ago. Slacklining is stringing a lenght of tubular webbing between two points tightly. You then walk across it like a tight rope. The big difference is it moves a lot, as you move forward, the webbing bows down stretching slightly, it also can move side to side. Dealing with the degrees of freedom that the slackline creates is an incredible challenge to balance and a heck of a lot of fun. Without getting too deep the comment has been made that slacklining parallels life. The line is still until you engage it, if you can find your center you can move smooth between two points, but if you shift too much or too quickly, it becomes difficult to return to a stable center.

I started thinking about slackling after rereading through my Circular Strength Training Instructor manual. Over the last couple of years, I've amassed quite a few manuals from all the certifications and workshops I've gone through. I've done two levels of the RKC and assisted once, I've done CST (as mentioned earlier), three levels of zhealth with a fourth on the way, plus all the undergrad and graduate courses. I feel lucky to have been able to get a lot of use and tons of information from everything I've done but with all the information I've accumulated I have yet to fully assimilate it all. It will be some time before I'm able to do that. At some point in the near future I plan on outline some of the benefits I feel I've gained by going through those different systems. Every so often I like to reread the manuals to refresh and renew. Today I picked up CST and started going through it and came across quote found in this post's title. It really resonated with me today. Everything we do provides some sort of disruption to our equilibrium, the body may strive to maintain homeostasis but very little if anything in life is static. Whether it's balancing work and family, exercise and restoration, calories in versus calories out, the goals of tomorrow versus the details of the past. Change may be inevitable but it's the balance in life we create that dictates how well we can guide the changes that occur. If we swing too far one way we must swing back eventually, it's the choices that we make that determine whether the return will be voluntary or not. Look at what your goals are but always remember there's going to be some tradeoffs. The goals may have your focus but blinders only really work well for horses and even that's temporary.

posted some scrollwork on my other blog

you can check it out over at mothwork.blogspot.com or just go to my links. That blog will rarely if ever have much writing or ranting or rambling. It will focus on anything to do with the hands.

It's amazing what you can find on the internet...

This is an article over at t-nation, granted it's an older article but it through me for a loop.

http://www.t-nation.com/readArticle.do;jsessionid=A4DB86CF7C0243497A5AEAA8D69A9C18.hydra?id=459887

It details methods or suggestions to get your doctor to give you steroids "legally". I put it in quotations b/c it's definitely on the shady side of things. I'm not sure if the intent is to promote methods to obtain steroids without having to resort to black market tactics or if it opens a doorway to something that certain individuals would have never opened b/c they never would have considered it until someone suggested it. It's just disappointing to see another place that usually has decent information to list this article as a must read. Rather than make a change in lifestyle or seek out better information it provides as a quick fix for impatient people. I guess I can add another item to the list of 'better' living through pharmacology and medicine....

Current Reading List

I usually have at least 4-5 books lying around for me to pick up when the mood strikes me. A couple in the living room, one by the bed, a few in the bathroom...you know how it goes. Right now I have out

Anatomy Trains by Thomas Myers A really interesting and dense book, I plan on getting even more out of this as I start my massage therapy program.

Kendall's Muscle Testing and Function with posture and pain. Lots and lots of reference material.

Getting Things Done by David Allen. Organization and task completion, a good book and another way to help you move forward.

An old issue of Milo. Its got Joe Kinney closing the #4 gripper. Its always good to read about other people accomplishing amazing feats.

The light at the end of the tunnel

It's been over a month since I hurt myself and it no longer seems that it's going to take forever to at least get back to where i left off. So with that in mind I've started planning out my road back. I'm planning on around another 5 months to build back up. I still have about another 2-4 weeks of doing nothing but walking and some very easy mobility work, very easy mobility work. So where did I leave off? Previous bests were:
all were done at 165-170lbs
Chinup +145lbs
Military Press 40kg x 3r/2l
Rack lockout no straps 765lb
1arm row 80kg
1arm swing 80kg x 20
Bearcrawls with 2-145lbs kbs
89 cards torn
2200page phonebood sideways style
2hand pinch 197lb
Pistol +115lbs
35lb Clubbell 25/25 Mills

I'll have to go back to my training logs to see everything else but that covers most of my better ones. The general plan is to use mobility as a base and more or less follow a progressive overload format. I'll start with swings and various types of planks and move on slowly with my body's feedback being my guide. I'm looking forward to refining my Zhealth practice and deepening my movement skill. This ought to be a fun journey.

moores wall

accountability, analysis paralysis and add

When I first considered the idea of a blog, I wondered what I'd write about on a regular basis, but the wondering/pondering/contemplating/deliberating is an untentional stalling tactic. I thought I'd try to amass at least 20 days of topics and links to give myself a head start, people check out a blog because there's new information on a regular basis. I figured that if I had information to share then I better make sure there's an audience to share it with, and if there's no steady flow of thoughts and ideas, then the likelihood of exposure begins to diminish. So I'd make a list of some topics, then I'd start over with a new set of ideas, over and over again I'd go through the process, it got to the point of being almost like the directions on a shampoo bottle, but instead I'd blather, wince and repeat. Finally after talking with Geoff, he said it really doesn't matter, just get started. Period. So I did, i got my first post out and it was easier than I thought, but the ball didn't keep rolling, it stopped. For me this blog is ultimately an exercise in accountability. For as long as I can remember I have always done better if I have to be accountable to someone else, a parent, a boss, a teacher. If I'm only accountable to myself, a lot less tends to get done. I'd like to blame the ADD but I'm a reasonably intelligent adult who in theory is capable of learning from mistakes and excuses are just more stalling tactics. So I thought this blog would be a good way to improve this weakness. I'm making the goal of contributing regularly to this blog, whether its a little or alot, the main thing is to get something out, like they say, "a lot of success in life is just showing up."

Finally a random joke, no promises to quality but it goes with the theme...somewhat

How many ADD kids does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
(interrupt before the other person can ask "i don't know")
Wanna ride bikes?

First Post, New Blog

This blog will cover my diet, workouts or lack there of, and (like most everyone else that does this...) random thoughts. I'm doing this to improve my own accountability. So let me catch you up...I'm in the midst of pretty much my worst injury ever... At the RKC level 2 I decided to give a beast pullup a try at the end of the certification. I didn't get set up adequately and felt something rip in my abdomen. It was an awful feeling, one of those times when you know you did something wrong. Here's the problem, any normal person would have gone to the hospital, gone directly to the hospital, do not pass go, do not collect $200, not me...Why you might ask? I don't have health insurance, it was at least the 30th time I wished I was Canadian. Based on the best guesses of a couple of docs and a dpt, i managed to tear my psoas, internal, external oblique, and a nice hole were my abs meet my ribs. The recommendation...crutches for at least 2-3 weeks, followed by nothing other than walking for another 6-8 weeks. I'd almost rather go to prison and have my body confined than be confined to my own body.

So now I'm left with at least an extra 5-10 hours a week to fill, my plan is to step up working on the business side of business and get prepared for starting my massage therapy license program. I'll also start planning out the timeline for my recovery, luckily I have a great network of health and fitness professional to consult with, hopefully I can be to full strength by early in the next year. Then it's time to go about pushing forward. I hate that this happened but it could always be worse, i have plenty of time and no rush to get anywhere but better.