57bergstrm an elderly beginner log

[57bergstrm]

9/12 -18 sunday
No squatting today did Concept rower for 20minutes instead.
Pain and aches left knee, right hip and low back. So I skipped squat and recover until tuesday.

[positronbomb]

4/12-18 tuesday
Press
41kgx3,3,4
Just maintenance day, Im wrecked, pain everywhere,need rest but I dont want it. It sucks getting old. By the way 67 birthday today.

Happy birthday.
I hope I can still be lifting into my 60's.

[positronbomb]

6/12 -18 thursday

Notes
Been having awful pain in left leg since last squat.
Feels like some nerve muscle problem from hip to foot. Maybe some sciatic thing or just bad form.

If it hurts walking and even laying in bed then it's definitely a sciatica problem.
I have this and it has destroyed my progress, even 65kg squats gives me pain.

[57bergstrm]

If it hurts walking and even laying in bed then it's definitely a sciatica problem.
I have this and it has destroyed my progress, even 65kg squats gives me pain.

Bad luck, I hope can train around it, as they say. Sometimes just walking helps me, I usually never go for walks. Anyway lets not give up and instead find a way to at least keep training and eventually it might get better. Good luck P-bomb!

[positronbomb]

After about 3 miles of walking the pain almost disappears.
Hot baths seem to help too.
It's getting better, although I'm not sure whether I should be completely resting the area or trying to exercise through it.
Every time the spine is loaded the pain returns, but it is improving, just bloody slowly.

[57bergstrm]

After about 3 miles of walking the pain almost disappears.
Hot baths seem to help too.
It's getting better, although I'm not sure whether I should be completely resting the area or trying to exercise through it.
Every time the spine is loaded the pain returns, but it is improving, just bloody slowly.

Thats a good sign, take care, better to be safe than sorry. I decided to be safe today. Im taking a rest from training. Maybe thursday be next time for me.

[57bergstrm]

13/12 thursday
Recovering day, still kneepain and the usual stress heading for christmas and my retirement, I feel older every day now[emoji6]

[57bergstrm]

15-16/12 weekend
No training, I decided to take some more days off due to my knee and hip pain, it is slowly getting better, I think the lesson from this is to respect my signs of bad recovery and dont take to much chances with the weights when Im getting up to pr weights. Still I need to push on, its a delicate bisniss[emoji1594]

[57bergstrm]

31/12-18 monday
Press in kg
20x5x2
25x5
30x5
32,5x5
35x5
Rower
10min
Three weeks off and Starting again. Knee and hip feeling better. My latest analys is overtrained connective tissue.
I need to do light days when the big lifts, squat is my favorite, get up to pr level. Now also my workhours has gone down from 100% to around 20-50% pension is kicking in. So more rest, less stress more recoverysleep and trainingtime. That I hope will get my DL up, eventually.

[57bergstrm]

1/1-19 tuesday
Squat in kg
20x5x2
40x5
60x5
70x5
Just warming up after three weeks off, little pain in left hamstring, no problem, knee ok.
Bench in kg
20x10
30x5
40x5
50x5
6 month since last bench so Im just warming up. Left anterior shoulder low grade pain. I hope its just a minor geezer problem.