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07-30-2019, 07:15 AM
#331
Congrats on the squat PR.
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07-31-2019, 02:29 PM
#332
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08-06-2019, 04:43 PM
#333
While babysitting some of our grandchildren I wound up falling and badly bruising my ribs. It was very painful and made it hard to breathe. I missed Monday's lifts but should be ready to go on Friday. Our gym is on one end of a strip mall. At the other end is a chinese restaurant that had a rather serious fire today. I don't know what affect this has had on our gym or the other businesses in the mall. Life is not boring.
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08-06-2019, 05:09 PM
#334
Hope heal quick Carson. I fell down the last 3 steps going down to my basement on my birthday in Dec. Landed on my left knee, it hurt for 3 weeks. Sure made the fact that recovery is slower as we age.
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08-06-2019, 07:27 PM
#335
Not only is recovery slower but so am I. I hope our gym will be open Friday since the fire.
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08-06-2019, 07:28 PM
#336
BTW Where is the USSF forum.
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08-09-2019, 02:14 PM
#337
An interesting day at the gym. I not only learned some things about the fall out of the restaurant fire and some snippets from the weekend at Wichita Falls but I learned that I have in fact broken at least one rib, but then, it's lifting day.
Squat: 70 x 5; 120 x 5; 160 x 3; 200 x 1; 219 x 5 x 1; 3 x 1 and my ribs felt bad enough that I stopped.
Press: Avoided them like the plague.
Prowler: 100 x 6 x 4 While my ribs hurt it was not nearly bad enough to stop me. I went more slowly than usual but I did them
Off to Chicago once again for birthday parties, but no merry go round rides for me.
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08-09-2019, 03:33 PM
#338
I guess you use a belt for the sqts., I'm sure that would aggravate the ribs.
I took my grandchildren to Coney Island last week. I did go on the go karts and bumper cars, stayed clear of the Cyclone.
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08-12-2019, 09:44 AM
#339
If the belt aggravates your ribs, maybe lift without it, probably need to back off some. Of course, whatever Sully thinks is your best bet.
I've found I can usually dead lift when injured better than I can squat. Haven't had broken ribs while lifting though.
What are you gonna do, not train?
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08-12-2019, 08:39 PM
#340
Great question Michael. So far I've sort of kept training but with great limitations. Surprisingly I can do the squats through part of my warm ups and then the pain becomes so great i had to stop. For the bench which was virtually impossible. I did my 45 lb warm ups but was in near agony. I couldn't even lay down on my bench for the second set, let alone lifting the bar. So, I tried my favorite lift, the dead, and could barely bend over to pick the bar off of the platform. I lifted 135 lb. but it hurt so much I could not lift it a second time. This not only not fun, but it is depressing. Then I tried the prowler and it hurt far more this time than before. I used the wide heavy belt with the Squat and for some reason it was not as big of a problem as I thought it would be. Why? I don't know. I did not use a belt for bench but I still couldn't do that. I put on a much narrower belt for the dead but I still couldn't do them
Squat: 70 x 5; 120 x 5; 160 x 3; 210 x 2 x 3 I had planned to do 253 x 2 x 2 IMPOSSIBLE.
Bench: 45 x 5; That's it. Just lying down was too much.
Dead: 135 x 1 and I could not continue
Prowler: 100 x 6 x 1; 2 x 1 and I was done.
Ribs mend very slowly. I will be at the competition but I don't know what I'll be able to lift. I am not a happy camper.
One last comment. Despite the difficulties the two weekends with our children and grandchildren were what I would call a great blessing. The grandchildren are developing wonderfully. Maybe I'll share a few examples another time. We became closer to our children than ever before. It's not all bad.
Last edited by carson; 08-12-2019 at 08:42 PM.
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