Reactive Training Systems

JordanLinteris · Senior Member

RE: Jordan's training log.

JordanLinteris · Senior Member

I just decided to go light today and do some decline presses.

JordanLinteris · Senior Member

Actually that will never fool anyone! No one will belive that is me since he has hair on his legs.

Tony Parrella · Senior Member

JordanLinteris wrote:

haha WAXED TO PERFECTION. It is a habit of mine to make sure that my 14" calves are hairless, tanned, lotioned and lean. It you are going to sport calves the size of a malnourished 12 year old girl, you might as well make sure they look nice!

I have zero spasms Tony. One thing that my wife reminded me about was that my neck was out before this all started happening. It was a very shortlived tweak but perhaps that is all it needed to get something pinched. You sound very educated towards this issue. Do you doing something like this for a living?? Sounds like it. Anyways if you have any other steps/options of what I should do Tony, that would be great. Waiting for appointments sucks.

funny **** about the calves dude, my training partner says the same about his. yeah i am a physical therapist, or as you canadians would say, a physiotherapist lol. From what your describing it sounds like a pinched nerve. if it was a muscle, ligament, or tendon you would have some kind of pain with range of motion but it sounds like yours is a classic nerve impingement. So now we gotta find the cause/where its coming from: when did the neck start, because its very possible that its really the neck and not the shoulder. in your spine there are nerves that come off the spinal cord and the different levels of them control different muscles. For benching you use delts, tris and pecs, which are different levels. the delts are C4-5 and the tris are C7 so it may be one of those areas. If you do have a herniation of the disc at one of those levels it can put pressure on the nerve causing weakness. Another cause may be a tight muscle in the neck which is clamping down on the nerve. A lot of nerves run through/underneath muscles so i would suggest stretching the neck out. it would also give you an excuse for your wife to massage it. The MRI will tell for sure if its a herniation, the Xray will only show if theres a fracture (which is unlikely) or one of the vertebrae is displaced, the disc most likely wont show up on it. But start with the stretches and let me know.

JordanLinteris · Senior Member

Physical therapist.. pffff. who says that. You are a physiotherapist. Freakin Yankees. haha. Yeah I think you are dead on with your online assessment of my problem. Judging by what you say, I would place the problem in my C4-5. I say this because not only is my chest weak, but I cannot do a single rep with a weight I could almost get 20 withon DB shoulder press. Do you feel that stretching and massage is enough, or should I go to physio a.s.a.p?

-- Edited by JordanLinteris on Friday 17th of July 2009 12:57:00 AM

JordanLinteris · Senior Member

Intensity block

deadlifts
135x3
225x3
315x3
405x3
500x3
585x1 Arm felt like it was pulling from the socket. HOOOOORAY!!!

Front squats
135x3
225x3
315x3
365x1
405x1
315x5

Back squats- Just to try out my new babies (Adistars)
135x3
225x3
315x3
405x3 Very balanced.

Well that was short and useless. Looks like this inury in my shoulder/chest is going to affect my deadlifts. I lose stability in my arm while pulling and the socket doesnt seem to stay tight. LOL I hate writing my log because I have a whiny sob story everynight to let everyone hear about. Maybe I will only be squatting for the next while, rather than deadlifting as well.

Tony Reid · Senior Member

I started seeing a physical therapist about a month ago. It's not instant relief, but it has slowly been helping, but according to her, it's all about the stretching. Stretching has been a non-existent part of my training. It's not so much sitting in a circle and stretching before working out like a dance class. I do static stretches at work while I am sitting at my bench or standing up. It's simple little things like palm flat on counter to stretch the forearms. Arm bent behind back while sitting in the chair, sit on hands and tilt the head. It doesn't produce that salty liquid from the pores and no one really knows you are doing it. However, she has really made me realize that it's all about the stretching. I still do not do anywhere near enough and that's probably why it's taking so long for me to get better, but it's coming along. For my therapy on Tuesday all she did was "massage" my tendon in my elbow in about a 2 inch area for 1/2 hour, I only cried 8 times. Then she move to about a 2 inch area on my back and spent a 1/2 hour torturing that. She actually did it at my house so my wife got to see firsthand-
A. How NOT much fun it is
B. She now knows how to inflict severe pain to me w/ little effort

Tony Parrella · Senior Member

i would say start with the stretching first and if after 2-3 days its still the same to make an appointment. do you need a prescription from a doctor to see at PT in canada? if not you could prob make an appointment sooner with the PT than the doc. but tony is right with the stretching. ive tried to incorporate more in the last 2-3 years esp for low back, hamstrings, and quads since they are tightest on me. let me know how it goes

Date: Jul 20, 2009

Just as an update
I hace recently got an x-ray to find the issue with the nerve impingement. Doctor figures an MRI will also be neccesary. I used to think It was my chest/shoulder issue, but it is now very obvious that it is strictly to do with my triceps. This is why my bench, shoulder press and isolated tricep work was all weak. I was researching it and trying to determine where the issue was located. I am able to flex my chest, and every part of my shoulders and have them flex and fire properly.When I was doing some light shoulder work and I did not use my triceps (side delt raise)I had no strength lose. This made me realize perhaps my shoulder wasn't the issue. I was flexing my left tricep to compare with my right yesterday. The left was defined looking and was hard when flexed. I then grabbed my right tricep to compare and I could not flex it for the life of me. From my elbow right to my rear delt is the dead area. My tricep is lacking any firmness, has shrunk down already and is so soft even flexed that I can literally push my finger deep into the muscle. I got my wife to compare and she got pretty concerned when she felt the difference. LOL. From what I have read, this translates to an issue in the C6. When I find out anything else, I will post. I wont get x-ray results for a few more days. X-ray is only skeletal anyways, so unless there is a severe alignment problem then it will most likely be useless.

JordanLinteris · Senior Member

Was off of the gym the last week because I was working overtime shifts. This gave me an opportunity to give my nerve issue a break, since I have been getting a throbbing sensation throughout my neck to my right shoulder blade and into my tricep. My tricep is completely unusable now. My bench went from 315x15, to 275x4, to 225x4@10 today. I was just testing to see where I was. 225 felt overwhelmingly heavy on my right side. I am done with any sort of pressing until I get my x-ray results and chiro. While doing machine presses for chest I could see that my right shoulder was at a completely different height/angle than my left. Everything is completely out of whack. I am going to focus my attention on squats and deadlifts. I did some really light biceps and tri work today to slow the atrophy on my right arm. Try to hold a bit of size as long as I can.

TRON · Senior Member

This is in response to the decline press video

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