Rachel Crass' Post-Spinal Surgery Rehab/Training Log

[Rachel Crass]

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[Rachel Crass]

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[Rachel Crass]

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[slowjoe]

Sounds like the mini-emergency is over, thank God.

Is your right shoulder larger than your left, or is that an optical illusion?

[Rachel Crass]

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[Callador]

I just read through your log, very inspirational! I hope you can keep everything on track during your recovery, and I hope you can get back to where you were... and far beyond that!

i don't know much about olympic lifting, but it is intreresting to read about different clean techniques etc. I just started doing front squats, and I am really liking those. Best of luck with the MRI!

[StrongLiftMyBalls]

If you're referring to the situation with my ex-husband and my daughter, that's far from over. I know where she is, and she's physically safe, but she wants to come home, and he has continued not to allow her to. If he doesn't return her to me by the end of this week, I am contemplating slapping him with kidnapping charges. He has battled with a few psychological issues over the past 7-8 years and is far from stable. Unfortunately, I didn't become aware of how serious those issues were until after I became pregnant. I haven't mentioned the situation here for a few days because it's gone beyond a simple angry rant from a slighted ex-wife, and the personal nature of it involving my daughter has gotten to be a little much for me to feel comfortable with sharing online.

As for my shoulder, some of that may be an optical illusion or a function of holding my ridiculously large phone extended out from my body with my right arm. But I certainly have a few asymmetries from nearly 2 years of favoring my right side in everything that I did/do. When the disc ruptured, it blew out to the left, leaving my right side virtually undamaged by comparison. So, I stood on my right leg, carried things with my right arm/hand, and when I carried my daughter, I put her on my right hip (docs told me never to carry her, but with all the crap she and I have been through together, I'd rather have to make (and pay for) an additional trip to the chiro every week than not carry her, so that's that. I've been told I'm ridiculously stubborn. I think that may be a fairly accurate assertion.)

Im sure you can handle the situation yourself and its non of my business, but that sort of behavior by men, abusive to women and treating children badly, gets me so angry I would buy a ticket and fly all the way over there from the UK and slap him with more than just kidnapping charges.

I honestly and sincerely hope this gets sorted out asap and im confident in saying we are all supportive in spirit at the very least.

Hey, at least the gym is good for some things eh?

[Rachel Crass]

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[Rachel Crass]

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[Callador]

Thank you on all fronts!! And I'm glad to hear you like front squats. I'm a fan of that vertical back angle and the true ROM they provide (along with the high-bar squat). Cleans in your future too?

I have pretty long femurs, so I did like that the front squats helped me obtain a pretty vertical back angle. I think they felt a little better than my back squats (doing something betweem low/high bar right now), but they are still pretty light too. I am going to do them 1x per week and keep trying to work the weight up on the front squats.

I am currently doing powerlifting, so I haven't messed around with cleans. I can do ghetto power cleans, but they are really ugly. If I ever wanted to do cleans correctly, I know I would need some coaching.