Hardcore Fitness Maniacs for January 2021

[Fitnessfreakk366]

Debbie, sorry to hear about your issue getting worse. I would look into a Phasha (not sure how to spell it) specialist and try one time getting the corded tissue broken up, until you do it may never get better. It sounds like what my husband had called Frozen Shoulder and he got his from golfing. A couple of sessions and he was good to go but boy was it a process to figure out what the problem was. Unless you have an injury my Chiro says 90% of the time is is Phasha. Athletes really struggle with it and that is why they have round the clock therapy. I hope you feel better soon and get back to doing what you love most, lifting. I will start walking on the TM too, I will do Caroline's workouts along with BB and walk so we can motivate each other. Remember years ago something like this happened to you and you started only doing yoga? Maybe do some of that again? PS, I am not telling you what to do, I am just giving you my opinion, i dont want to come off bossy. I know you know your body better than anyone, I know how frustrated you must be.

I think you are right but why isn't the body buddy working? I press so hard on those knots that my eyes water. I have felt them loosen, too, I'm just not sure why they won't heal. I think it might be because I don't give it time to heal. Yes, I remember when I did yoga when I had this issue a long time ago. I may start doing that again, but doing some poses hurt this problem. Any type of plank movement irritates it. If I can't get this better in the next 6 weeks, I will look into it. Thanks for the suggestion, you don't come across as bossy so don't worry about that. I've learned so much from all of you that I welcome the suggestions!!

 

[WD]

Jolie, it helps when the instructor is is in great shape for motivation. I have made a variety of Tuscan soups. I cooked up and shredded chicken breast last night to make some soup, but have not got it done yet. I made a teriyaki beef stir fry with lots of veggies last night also and froze some. I ate it with a little quinoa. I have been putting a diced precooked beet on my salad with some pecans. I like those super salad greens with Chef Hak avocado lime salad dressing. I don't get as much planned and done as I would like with school and house lookers. I have someone coming tomorrow so it kind of messes up going shopping if I want to get a workout in before my husband has to work. You are doing great with your workouts.

Debbie, I still think I have something like you do along with the arthritis. It is intermittent and sometimes unexplainable. Sometimes I can get it worked out and others I have to let up on just about anything. I sleep wrong and my upper back and shoulder will be throbbing. Particularly if I sleep for a long time without changing positions. I wish you could find out what is causing it. Do you find that sometimes all of the stretching and trying to break up the knots in the fascia causes it to be more inflamed? It does me. I am learning to be a bit more gentler with some of that. I think I get too aggressive with it at times.

Doreen, nice work out even with the workout ADD I do that a lot. It is not such a good thing when I am trying to get something in quick before having to take care of other things around here.

 

[dmerz]

This morning I did KCM Box Fit premix with boxing and legs. I held my #1 weight bars for the boxing. The leg section seem short - I should have skipped back and done it a 2nd time through.

 

[Fitnessfreakk366]

Debbie, I still think I have something like you do along with the arthritis. It is intermittent and sometimes unexplainable. Sometimes I can get it worked out and others I have to let up on just about anything. I sleep wrong and my upper back and shoulder will be throbbing. Particularly if I sleep for a long time without changing positions. I wish you could find out what is causing it. Do you find that sometimes all of the stretching and trying to break up the knots in the fascia causes it to be more inflamed? It does me. I am learning to be a bit more gentler with some of that. I think I get too aggressive with it at times.

Diane - I agree, I think we definitely have similar issues if not the same. Everything you've gone through, I've gone through. Yes, I find stretching and sometimes massaging the knots makes it more inflammed. I can't help but wonder why? I don't know what medical doctor to see, I know my family doctor wouldn't have a clue. What I'll be pissed about is if I stop working out for several weeks just to have it come back when I start back up. I was feeling great about two weeks ago and now I'm back to square one. I just don't get it. I'm glad you and I are going through it together, but I wish one of us could figure out how to make it go away.

 

[Jolie Fit]

I am back at it today and it felt amazing to move and get the blood pumping again. Today was cardio, I am going to start walking with Debbie and do lifting as well. I did a TM workout, 60 minutes, 6.0 to 6.5 incline, 3.1 speed, traveled 3.1 miles and burned 584 calories. It was so cold in my garage I didn't even work up much of a sweat which is odd for me. It is very hard for me to get going in the morning when it is cold outside, I cant wait for some warmer weather. We have gotten the biggest snow storm in 10 years from Reno, Nevada, the Lake Tahoe area ( where my son goes to school) all the way down to the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range. It has been cold needless to say. I remember taking my kids to Mammoth Mountain in the Sierra's where we always go and it snowed over 10 feet in a 24 hour span. It was insane!!! I always laugh about when they talk about snow storms back east and they get 1 foot and the whole area shuts down. Try 10 feet and we still go out driving and skiing. I love it!

Debbie, look into a Therapist to break up the knots that come to your house. My Chiro said it wont go away even without rest, it has to be broken up. If you dont break it up, it starts right back up again because the problem is still there. You can get a book or even look on Youtube to see what it is like. You could probably have your husband give it a try too! I look forward to walking with you

I hope you all have a wonderful Sunday, we are going out to lunch since they opened the restaurants agian. I feel like nachos today even though it is not on my diet. Yum.

 

[WD]

I think I never got here to post yesterday. I did Coffey Fit Raw Get Up and Move for extra fun warm up and Intervals #5 repeating some of it because I forgot to start the Fitbit back up when I paused after Get Up and Move so I figured out the calories for the extra 11 minutes and added them on, 44 minutes, 183 calories, 2436 steps. I then did Kelly's Body Fit dvd premix quick fix legs, 16 minutes(includes a warm up and stretch), 54 calories, 99/133 heart rate, 1,168 steps. Total time was 60 minutes, 237 calories, 3,104 steps. I had a house showing yesterday and today and also had to spend time troubleshooting my Anti virus and getting together a Whole Foods order. Having a salad with sockeye salmon, grapes, and pecans for dinner.

Doreen, I think the leg segment I did for the quick fix was all of the leg work. I have done the boxing and legs before. So, without the warm up and stretch that 16 minutes would be significantly shorter. I enjoy the boxing on that workout.

Debbie, I wish we could come up with the cure too. So far doctors have not been that helpful and physical therapy was sort of a learning experience on how long to work on things. A lot was familiar with watching tons of physical therapy videos and learned some from chiro vids. Still I have obviously not come up with the solution. Arthritis doctor is not helpful either. You mentioned a sports doctor, but I had one of those once when I had a ganglion cyst taken off me knee and I was pretty disappointed and she did not seem to be interested in what my activities were when I talked to her. No pain at all when I got up this morning, but by the time I got home from church sitting in the pew and looking down at my Bible, I hurt. It is frustrating to say the least.

Jolie, you would think that you would burn extra calories with your body trying to warm itself. In the past I have kept the workout room cool during the winter months and just wore a hoodie till I got warmed up well and then took it off. I have not done that this year though. I take so long to get upstairs to work out and with school, I just keep it warm.
It seems like therapists that come to your house would be pretty expensive and insurance would not pay. Fortunately I did not pay anything for those weeks of PT. They really did dig into some of those knots at times and it felt like they were moving the knot around. I was thinking that their hands must hurt after a day of doing that. They usually only spent part of the whole session doing that though. Most was assistants that ran me through the moves one at a time till the therapist was ready for me. I would finish up and go home. Still it often set off some pain and I would come home and take Advil. It would start to feel better and I would go back 2 or 3 days later and it would start all over again. I talked to my arthritis doctor about this.
We have only had really deep snow 3 times since I have moved to Oklahoma. It is generally more sleet and black ice. The worst thing to drive on.

 

[Fitnessfreakk366]

This morning I walked on my treadmill and worked up a pretty good sweat. Walked on only a 3% incline but it was fine for today. I am keeping a diary of how I'm feeling each day and what I'm doing so I can see if there is a pattern that is causing these issues. However, I will not be lifting for a while so we'll see what happens. Today I'm not bad but I have a couple knots I tried to work out after I walked using my Body Buddy.

Workout was 41 minutes, burned 232 calories, went 1.88 miles (TM showed 2.14 so why so different?) did 4583 steps and HR was108/128.

Jolie - What Diane said. Several years back I had this exact issue but on my right side. It was so bad that at one point I was wearing a sling to take pressure off my shoulder blade that used muscles to hold up my arm. That is how bad it got back then. The cause: a massage therapist. They did exactly what you said, really worked on the knot and by the next day I could hardly move my arm. That lasted for several weeks if not months, it was horrible. I remember my DH and I went on vacation, I think we went to Mackinac Island, and I was wearing my sling. Eventually, the pain went away and everything went back to normal, but it took a LONG time. This is why I'm not all gong ho on getting a massage. The Body Buddy scares me enough, I'm so afraid that after I use it I won't be able to move the next day. Thankfully that hasn't happened. So now you know my hesitation in doing this. It scares me. Plus it would cost an arm and a leg, especially if they came to my house which I doubt we have anything like that here. And like Diane said, she did all that and is still having issues. I really do appreciate your thoughts on this, though, and if you have any other ideas, please share them. I just wanted to tell you the experience I had with a massage therapist, it ranks right up there with my experience with a chiropractor! I will never go to one of those again either. Great job on your workout!!!

Diane - Same thing happens to me when I look down to read. Now I place my Nook on a lap desk when I'm sitting in my chair and read with my head directly up, it has helped a great deal. Let's hope we both recover soon, I'm really sick of dealing with it. So weird how our experiences are so similar.

Have great workouts everyone!!