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.
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Hey Kevin -
Glad to hear you're making progress!
Let me know if you need anything - my schedule should be getting lighter soon I hope . .
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