Lifter problems
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@iammortalcombat yeah dude, i recently hit 40 and my routine has almost entirely transitioned to mobility-type exercises.
I've always been super hyper and active, doing moto and BMX and skating back in the day, to MMA type stuff, to functional/strength training, then I dabbled with an aesthetic approach, and all that sorta killed my back and now I have a bunch of disc issues and arthritis. I spend about 1.5 hours per day doing mobility stuff now and it's absolutely essential for me. If I slack on it, the chronic pain catches up extremely fast.
Bringing this back around to my denim - the 30 or so flights of stairs I take per day are probably responsible for my inability to fit 777's any more and I do find that 888's are the ticket if you have cycle/stair thighs.
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I just got my first pair of IH the 634S I was after the 1955S but they were sold out, Being an avid cyclist for 40 years and having big thighs and what my tailor calls "a prominent seat" I can say that the 634S are a great fit I am looking forward to trying the 1955 when they are back in stock early next year however...
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I think with how quickly they sold out this last go-round, it won’t be 3 years again.
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@iammortalcombat Alex told me April or May of next year I thought of the 888 but I'm not a fan of tapered I prefer straight coming form the 501 since as far back as I can remember...
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@Eza fair enough. I also plan on the 1955s but I had two 21oz pickups this year and one of them was a surprisingly amazing relaxed fit straight leg from samurai
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@iammortalcombat I am very interested to see how the 1955 will fit so far the 634S has been succulent and if you want to talk about samurai the 634 is based after the ultimate samurai Miyamoto Musashi! I like the fact that IH are very difficult and very slow to fade...How are the Samurai for fading?
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@Eza said in Lifter problems:
@iammortalcombat I am very interested to see how the 1955 will fit so far the 634S has been succulent and if you want to talk about samurai the 634 is based after the ultimate samurai Miyamoto Musashi!
Agreed! Ought to read Eiji Yoshikawa’s novelization of his life if you haven’t.
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@mclaincausey I started practicing Kendo back in the 90s at University and became intrigued by all things Miyamoto Musashi! I have read it and it is excellent. Also, read all his published works and most recently the manga "Vagabond" which is epic and wonderful...
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@Eza honestly I haven’t done more than soak them. I had gotten my 888s maybe a week before the samurai s510. Soaked the samurais to remove starchiness and then they got put away. I’ll probably rotate them in this year once the summer is over. Way too hot here for 21oz as it’s already 80f and 60-80% humidity.
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@popvulture lets hope!
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@flannel-slut I've done a bit of everything.
I was into powerlifting for a good 8 or 9 years or so - and initially put this gym together in early 2021 during the lockdowns with the rack, a couple of barbells, and something like a combined 260kg available in plates - but decided to pack it in at the end of 2022 after further progress became too much effort, I was getting too heavy, and (with the baby on the way especially) taking 2 hours a day to work out was becoming selfish.
When the baby turned up I was looking for workouts that I could do in under an hour and spent 2023 doing calisthenics and trying to get a skill or two under my belt (unsuccessfully). I wrecked my shoulder falling out of a handstand in the middle of '23 and spent 6 months or so seeing a physiotherapist and just doing what I could in the gym without causing the shoulder to flare up.
Earlier this year while looking for ways to enhance my shoulder strength and stability I came across some macebell workouts on YouTube, so I got one of those. And that led to another (heavier) one of those, then some kettlebells, and over the weekend I filled up those three sandbags.
So my training now is some sort of hybrid between bodybuilding and functional strength. I usually do some shoulder warmups then 3-5 sets of a main compound lift like bench, pullups, ring-dips, for the first 20-30 mins, then do a circuit with the kettlebell, macebell, and (now) sandbags. It's just sort of intuitive what I'll do each day at the moment, and I really need to sit down and workout a proper regime to follow for a few months and track progress against.
So Tl;Dr: "calisthenics guy?" - I dabbled.
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@EdH take a look at the Andrew Lock Big Three as a basic shoulder rehabilitation series.
He's added a fourth exercise to the sequence recently. If you've got access to Instagram.
https://www.instagram.com/andrew_lock_strength/reel/C3HAYNxSzIm/
Dr Lock is a genius physiotherapist who specialises in strength athletes. I used Dani, the girl in the first video, as a PT for a while to rehabilitate my back. (She fobbed me off on her boyfriend, as she felt his training style would benefit me.)
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@EdH much respect in attempting calisthenics! similar journey as yours with the home gym during Covid lockdowns and suffered a shoulder injury as well -mine was from swinging an axe, nothing cool like trying to walk on your hands.
Sounds like your on the right path to strengthening your shoulder and like @Graeme have a video I swear by as well (incorporates a lot of the same external rotation principles tho my guy is allergic to shirts).
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Not sure if this would be of any help @EdH but I had an interesting thing happen recently with shoulder related stuff. I’ve been working out pretty intensely for a couple years now but really ramped it up at the beginning of this year after moving from home stuff to a gym.
I started having some bad pain in my shoulder, but thankfully mobility tests indicated to me that it was more impingement or bursitis than something like a tear. It nonetheless sucked to work around.
Unrelated, I ended up with contact dermatitis in the form of a super uncomfortable rash on my arms, which my dermatologist attributed to likely detergent or something of the sort. He put me on a course of prednisone. I’ve gotta say — the shit made me feel crazy but the immunosuppressant nature of a steroid like that meant that all the inflammation in my body chilled out. I think the time on it gave my shoulder some time to rest and now it feels a million times better. So, it was a weird way to get there, but I really appreciated the unexpected side effect.
Funnily enough, a lot of the other general aches and pains in my body came right back when the medication was finished. Old man problems haha….
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@Graeme Thanks mate. My issue was I f'd up my teres muscles. My physio gave me a little routine to follow at the start of each workout, and I do that. The macebell swinging is really helping otherwise, and I haven't had a flare up in 8 months or so now.
@flannel-slut yup, I recognise those and put some of them in my routine. To hit the teres maj. and min. I also do some overhead circles against the band, trying to keep my shoulder blades flat against my back as I do so. The stepping out and then resisting the eccentric looks like a good modification to what I do now, which would require more stability than just going heavier on the concentric. Might work those in!
@popvulture Glad to hear your shoulder got accidentally sorted! Like I say, mine is hopefully fixed now, (at least until I do something else stoopid). I hear you on getting old. Funny how my fitness goals became "be able to do fun stuff at weekends" and "don't be an embarrassing dad on sports day" as soon as kiddo arrived!
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