TweetThursday

Took the day off from the gym, went to get a hair cut and all that fun stuff for the graduation I'm going to. I spent most of the night ironing clothes since my mother couldn't tell me what to wear so now I'm bringing way more than I should.

Anyway my ankle felt pretty good all day yesterday but I fell asleep for an hour last night and woke up with the discomfort. It kind of feels like someone gave me a dead legger but after the pain goes away you can sort of still feel the area that was hit, just a discomfort that wakes me up and somewhat keeps me awake. I'm thinking it's a pinched nerve somewhere and I'll have to research how to fix it. Luckily I'm going to a chiropractor graduation haha so maybe I can talk to my cousin or someone else who graduated to help me out while I'm there.

TweetWeekend

Had the weekend off like I said. Went out of town for my cousins graduation so I didn't do anything in terms of the gym. Usually during things like this I come back feeling fat and sloppy but I don't feel it this time, just look it. The mirror wasn't really my friend yesterday, so I can't wait to get back in the swing of things today. I was hoping thought that the time away would heal up some pain.

My cousin graduated from chiropractic school so I was eager for him to look at my ankle but on the same note, it was his weekend and he wanted to enjoy himself. I did do something to it and said whatever was wrong with it was causing lack of blood flow and circulation to my ankle which he helped fix. It hurt more after he did it thought but what he said made sense. Driving 3 hours on Friday to the location, my toes were going numb a few times and yesterday on the 3 hours back, I didn't feel the pins and needles at all. However the pain and discomfort is still there. He did tell me to go and get some heat therapy on the ankle so of course what he did wasn't a cure all.

TweetMonday

Deadlift 5 sets
T bar row 4 sets
Leg press 4 sets
Standing calve raise 4 sets
Lat pulldown 4 sets

I was excited to get into the gym and do my thing. Deadlifts felt good, but they also seemed to take awhile. I went home last night and thought I should of did more leg work but now that I see the list, it wasn't too bad. Deadlifts being the harder exercise plus a pain to add and remove weight, not to mention the clips at my gym are all bent so its a fight to get them on the bar just takes a bit. Usually I would do a bigger second leg exercise but with the ankle and tightness I figured some calve raises could serve me well. All in all it just felt good after the 4 day break.

I also would normally jump rope but I figured I should possibly lay off a bit on the landing on the ankle, let it heel, I probably rushed back to jumping to quickly. So I did a HIIT session on the elliptical, low impact and still challenging.

TweethttTuesday

Chest/Shoulders

Wednesday

Basketball

Thursday

Legs/Back

It's been hectic at work so I haven't gotten a chance to get on. What I can say though is I think I need to let up on training quads directly. Last night was the worst night of sleep since I hurt my ankle. I get this shooting pain up from my ankle to my quad...it's not really pain though, it's almost like a numbness but not pins and needles, it's weird and kept me up all night last night. I slept lovely after basketball which I usually don't so I'm wondering if the leg extensions/squats made something worse. Even right now my ankle is a bit iffy and my quad feels sort of weird.

I don't know what to do at this point, I'm really doing my best to get my ankle better and more recently getting stuff in my quad moving. The stretching and whatever else isn't really helping but I'm going to keep searching for answers.

I do have Forged Joint Repair coming so hopefully that helps with the tendons and what not.

TweetHope that ankle gets better for you soon!

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Originally Posted by BABY1

Hope that ankle gets better for you soon!

thanks baby, me2 haha, I need some quality workouts here but I haven't been getting them much lately

TweetSaturday

DB curl superset with v bar extension 4 sets
BB curl superset with straight bar extension 4 sets
Double high cable curl superset w/ DB behind head extension 4 sets

Random footwork, battle ropes, farmers walks

I didn't feel like I had motivation to be at the gym. I don't know if it was the cold and the gym itself was super cold and I couldn't get warm or what. I felt like I just wanted to get in there and out of there. I did get an amazing pump in my arms though, not really sure what was different on this day but my whole arm had the pump. My gym owner has had battle ropes for years now but they were shredding a bit when they were out so he put them in the closest, well they are back so I had to use them and probably will use them whenever I can. Other than that I wanted to take it easy on my ankle but still take it easy so I did a lot of light impact footwork.

Sunday

Basketball

I've been feeling better with basketball and this day was no different, I really didn't have any pain and was playing good...in the first half. Start of the second half, my team got a steal and I run down, get an easy lay up, not sure if it was the running or jumping for the layup but my ankle hurt, nothing major but my game wasn't the same after that.

Last night of course my quad started to feel sore before bed so I got worried. Of course I was in bed for a half hour and then awake with the pain/numbness. Even this morning I can feel the quad issue which is usually gone when I wake up in the morning. I found some stretch that's supposed to be good for pinched nerves that I did yesterday and will continue to do so in hopes that it helps but it may be time to call my chiro and see what he can do for me.

TweetMonday

Pull ups superset w/ low cable row 4 sets
Rope pulldown superset w/ BB curl 4 sets
Chest pad T bar row superset w/ preacher curl machine 4 sets
Lat pulldown 3 sets
Outside hip machine superset w/ seated leg curl 3 sets
Inside hip machine 3 sets
Glute machine 3 sets

I was excited to get into the gym and get in some work however I wanted to be careful not to really have any direct work on my quad muscle since it's been causing so many issues. So I held off on the leg work until the end since I honestly didn't care if I really hit legs or not but I had some time so I did some unique work that I usually don't do. Anyway the workout was fun and fast. I supersetted a lot of my workout and worked fast, probably faster than I actually realized but it was fun and felt good. So all in all it wasn't a bad exercise.

Last night I spent a lot of the night on youtube looking for remedies for my quad issue and found a few stretches which felt good and hopefully will start to help. Sleeping was still a bit of an issue last night as I woke up in discomfort, but they didn't seem as bad as the last few days.

TweetTuesday

Side lateral raise 4 sets
Reverse Peck Deck 4 sets
Peck deck 4 sets
Decline hammer strength 4 sets (last set drop set)
Single arm cable cross superset w/ facepull 3 sets

Battle ropes 6 sets

Once again I went back to this same workout. Mainly because I know it doesn't cause discomfort in my shoulder and at this point I know what I can do on the decline press and have been beating my previous weeks numbers almost every week. The workout itself was pretty good. I felt good and the shoulder didn't hurt. I did try and overhead press with just the bar at one point and had some discomfort so I figured I shouldn't risk it and promptly put the bar down.

I'm so happy the battle ropes are back. Not only do I think it's great for shoulders and chest day but also for the cardio aspect. Since I'm not jumping rope right now to stay off my leg the battle ropes are my form of an intense cardio. The pump I got from the ropes yesterday was different, usually the upper body pump can be felt mostly in the larger muscles, this time I felt like my pump was hitting even the little muscles.

TweetBattle ropes sound grueling!

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Originally Posted by BABY1

Battle ropes sound grueling!

they can be for sure, a lot of fun if you haven't tried them......the ones my gym has are super long or feel long so its tough to really get them moving...I mentioned double wrapping them around the pole to make it a little easier and so people can do longer intervals on them but no one seems to know what i'm talking about when I say it

TweetWednesday

Basketball

All day my opposite leg was bothering me. I really hope I'm not over compensating on it and will cause an injury to it but once I started my stretching routine, everything felt really good. I'm really enjoying my stretching routine, as odd as that sounds. But my timing on it may not be great, I try and stretch about an hour before the game. My ankle seemed to tighten up again before the game though which sucked. Playing itself felt good, not really anymore pain that normal. Most of the game I felt fine, it was towards the end when I felt the ankle being sore a bit. In between breaks once I must have bent wrong on it which didn't help but all in all a solid game, lots of fun.

TweetThursday

Farmers walk 6 sets
Inner and Outer Hip machine 3 sets each
Kettlebell swings superset w/ straight bar pulldown 4 sets
Seated calve raise 3 sets
Battle ropes 6 sets

During the day I decided to do a workout where I wasn't really working anything directly but full body instead. I had 3 things in mind going to the gym that I wanted to do and did all 3. Farmers walks, kettlebell swings, and battle ropes, work the entire body. I didn't think I was going to get the battle ropes because some guy was working out right behind where the ropes are which was seemed like forever. But I was really happy with the workout.

Went home and decided since I never used ice on my ankle and even though I don't notice any swelling I figured I'd ice it. I filled a bucket of cold water and a bunch of ice and stuck my foot in. Wow that was rough. After a few I switched to hot water and Epsom salt but I felt pretty good when all was said and done.

TweetWeekend


I didn't go to the gym or really leave the house until Sunday. Friday I woke up with a sore throat, and I figured it was from having my ceiling fan on when I was sleeping because it was stuffy in my room Thursday night. Usually the sore throat goes away after I'm awake for a bit. Not this time, as the day went on I just felt worse and worse.

Friday night went home, I was probably sleeping by 8pm and didn't wake up until 8am the next morning, still feeling like death. Didn't leave the house Saturday and was in bed at like 930pm, slept until 8ish Sunday morning. Woke up wanting to play ball, wasn't going to happen. However I did have to leave the house for Christmas parties so I heavily medicated myself and went on my way

This morning I feel better but still have that jelly feeling in my body. Like I'm weak and tired and a bit off. I took my last dose of medicine and hopefully as the day goes on it gets better.

TweetMonday

BB row 4 sets
Seated Close grip cable row 4 sets
Lat pulldown 4 sets
Straight bar pulldown 4 sets
BB curl 4 sets
Rope hammer curl 4 sets

Farmers walk 4 sets

So for the past 5 or 6 years whenever I'm sick I usually do a back workout that helps me feel better. It's just in my head but it's what I do. Usually once a year I get a cold where I leave work early and instead of going home and going to bed, I go to the gym and workout. I swear row's get rid of colds. So that's what I did yesterday. I did two rows that I don't often do but it felt good doing them because that's what I used to do. The weight I moved was actually pretty good for being rusty at the BB row. I then threw in some farmers walks for good measure, I went long distance with light weight and short distance with heavy weight. It felt good.

I am still sick though which stinks but I think it's starting to break up which means sinus headache but if I can get through that I should be in the clear.