W: Wall, Thalkirchen. Didn't have time for my usual Weds evening routes session due to an MRI appointment. Did a short, sharp bouldering session afterwards to take my mind off depressing pictures of the crumbling ruin that is my left knee.
Keep the muscles around the knee strong, it won't stop arthritis or rotting cartilage from getting worse but will help instability hugely. I get lazy with the one legged squats from time to time and really notice the difference.
That's reassuring, thanks.By "one-legged squats" do you mean full-on pistols? I can't reliably do these on the left due to instability. Or some kind of toned-down version? Going to the physio tomorrow morning, hopefully he'll show me.
All only anecdotal advice obviously but my legs have been hammered over the years, including driven over, and they rarely stop me doing anything.
whoa. Story time?(if you're comfortable with it)Seriously impressed that you are able to climb as hard as you do if that's the case.
Quote from: krymson on May 27, 2013, 04:27:30 pmwhoa. Story time?(if you're comfortable with it)Seriously impressed that you are able to climb as hard as you do if that's the case.Everyone has injuries that hold them back I guess, some way worse than mine, so I've no excuse for not climbing harder. I'm just learning that there are some moves I actually can't do and that finding a way to work round them takes a bit of thought and time. I was minding my own business on a motorbike when a large van (3.5t) decided to basically hit me head on - him texting. Into the windscreen, knocked me back onto the floor and he then drove up my right leg, onto my chest (thought I might die at this point as the bumper was snapping my head backwards). He then got out (still parked on my chest), uttered "I didn't see him" to a passerby (obviously you twat, you were texting) and proceeded to reverse back over me.Heard the paramedics tell the Police I'd die (cheers for that) and off to Salisbury Hospital. After one op on the arm, they decided to knock me out and amputate the right arm (26 breaks) but no one had been to get me to sign the release form. Off home to Northampton, more ops, and I have a right arm that works okay-ish. Couldn't walk properly for well over a year but nagged the surgeon to take the metal out of the arm and sort the thumb tendon about two years back, so it's as good as it gets now. Interestingly, the surgeon had said the metal would have to stay in period but I said I climbed (badly) a little, was back decorating and he checked the arm out and said he was willing to operate again. I think the fact I didn't sit on my arse but went and started climbing clinched the op for me.Non of this makes me any sort of hero - a real hero would have popped a wheelie, rode up the front of the van, fancy stunted it through the air and landed nicely on the back wheel. I, like a prat, basically punched his engine block. DOH!
This is where my climbing's going wrong - surgeons using titanium plates and pins, when all I needed was a tube of Superglue!
Failure - keep backing off the VS things I get on, that's four in a row now. Not willing at all to take a fall it would seem, which was excusable on two of them but it is an issue in my head. I don't like failure much and I'm starting to realise that climbing is failure, with little ten second highs before you have to start failing again.
(26 breaks)
M Saw Steve at Hallamshire physio. Very interesting, looks like my shoulder problem might be more to do with my posture/back and sitting ata desk in the same position for years.
M Shed. 10 miles on bike. Saw Steve at Hallamshire physio. Very interesting, looks like my shoulder problem might be more to do with my posture/back and sitting ata desk in the same position for years.T The WaveW Beastmaker and even a bit of campussingTFS Tor with Shark. First time on a route that Ill need to work at for 14 years. Enjoyed it though and Ill go back for more.S hungover after Sebs party. Then in the evening bent over to zip up the tent that the kids had been playing in and my back went and I fell to the floor. Family tried to get me up for 30 mins then we had to call an ambulance. Took an hour of gas and air then rolling me onto a sccop stretcher to stand me up before they could get me in to the ambulance and off to A and E. Didnt get out of there until 1 pumped full of drugs and in lots of pain. Stillin bed now. Dont think Ill be doing much this week
S hungover after Sebs party. Then in the evening bent over to zip up the tent that the kids had been playing in and my back went and I fell to the floor. Family tried to get me up for 30 mins then we had to call an ambulance. Took an hour of gas and air then rolling me onto a sccop stretcher to stand me up before they could get me in to the ambulance and off to A and E. Didnt get out of there until 1 pumped full of drugs and in lots of pain. Stillin bed now. Dont think Ill be doing much this week
STG: "Dirty Dozen" in Yorkshire Grit Guide up to and inc. E1LTG: Font 7bM: Gym session on lunch - 10k bike, 1k row and died after 3k runT: Rain stopped trip to Cliff after work, crap sweaty session failing at Depot insteadW:Gym session on lunch, 10k bike, 1k row and 3k pyramid of 1mins at 12, 12.5, 13, 13.5, 14 and then back downT: Beers after workF: Woke up thinking I was just rough from previous night, turned out to be beginnings of another rank coldS: Nowt, sulking indoors listening to TMSS: Felt slightly better so headed to Brimham, pottered around but nothing hard(M): Nowt, felt crap again and then my girlfriend's CAR broke down