Road to Recovery

I had to look up what LARP even was lol It looks interesting and I watched a bit of the dracon documentary intro. Do you have your armor or is it cloth material? I cannot imagine doing that but goodness I would definitely do it if I had the chance at least for an experience :)
 
I have a suit of leather armour with most of it hand made using the boiled wax technique to harden the leather combined with soft leather for the joints. I have also made Brigandine but like the hardened leather it lives in Canberra at my parents house.

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yesterdays training went well, the ladies are making good progress and my DOMS didn't hinder doing the training exercises with the ladies.

Gym again today.
 
Gym session was light but will try to get outside to do some fartlek running this afternoon.
 
Trusylver said:
What I don't like to see in the gym is teenagers who see an experienced lifter and try to imitate the weights they are lifting using bad form and having no idea how much of a risk they are taking for injuring themselves but are unwilling to lower the weight and learn the right form. I have needed to rescue more then one teen boy from under a bench press bar which is too heavy for them.
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I completely agree, it really, really kills me to watch someone with bad form. Especially with machines, they want to lift as heavy as can go, but they have their back arched, or their joints locked.. I cringe. And dont get me started on free weights. I cant even stomach watching some teenage kid do bent over rows with a massive weight, when his back is hunched over.

And I completely sympathize with your wheat woes :( I'm allergic to anything that comes off a birch tree! Pollen, apples, pears, plums, peaches, cherries, everything I used to love as a child.. And I'm deathly allergic to cats and dog dander now. My allergies run my life in the spring here on in the northeast of the states, and I'm frankly pretty surprised I can breathe at all in the gym during the month of May. But I'm right there with you with allergies :cry: I feel your pain!
 
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feeling good this morning, down another 1/2 kg ?? hmm could be the extra running I am doing at work ? as it was another busy afternoon yesterday with a number of length of the field sprints (Why do they always get injured at the far end of the field ?) but sprints combined with the adrenalin of a body, which is often apparently not moving until you get close enough to see better, are probably better for calories used than sprints just for the fun of it.

Have been asked again to take on the sports medicine co ordinators role but I am not sure I have the people skills or the organisational abilities for the job. I have also been asked to train a group of teenage boys how to do preventative strapping as part of their traineeships (coaching) which I will be doing once the practice tape arrives. Once the are trained they will be doing shifts in the medical shed to relieve the under staffing problems on game day.

I like the way teenagers who may otherwise struggle with high school can get the opportunity to get real world work experience and qualification as part of their high school studies.
 
quiet day today, I have to go do my annual CPR renewal tomorrow morning BOOOORING but has to be done.

finally convinced hubby to take a week off training and miss one football game to try to recover from his quadricep injury, I am sure he has a tear in the muscle but like most men think they are invincible and that it will be magically better before next game day grrrrr.
 
Have been to CPR renewal, for the first few years it seems ok doing the annual renewal but now all I want them to do is get on with it so I can go home lol.

Have completed some Hill sprints before having a nice chicken salad for lunch and might take my bowling ball with me this afternoon when I take my son to the alley for his league games and have a game myself.
 
AAAARGh so bored this afternoon, I don't usually have spare time lol

Boredom relieving exercise

2 X 10 handstand pushups (against wall, balance isn't good enough to do them free standing)

2 X 10 decline clap pushups

2 X 10 single leg squats (each leg)

1 X 10 squats (holding my large dog ridgeback X Wolfhound)
 
Just catching up on your dairy. Lady, you are crazy busy! And those pushups?!?!?!? Holy smokes! I don't know why, but pushups always seem to be the HARDEST thing for me to do. I don't think I can use the excuse of breaking my arm 18 months ago any more. They've always been hard for me even before that....

Hope you have a good week!
 
It feels good to be able to do them again after all of my shoulder problems and it brings thoughts of returning to competition but the sensible me realises what stress my shoulder would be under and my physio is right, I would highly risk loosing ROM and quality of life to be able to compete at a National or International level again, I know that I could win at state level now but my competitive nature would lead to me going to far and trying to lift at my old level.

I may reconsider next year when at 40 I would qualify to compete in the Masters division Which even now I feel that it would be possible to break the Australian record in my favoured lift in my weight division, A National record has a lot of pull on the Ego lol.
 
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Are you kidding? Just doing a handstand against the wall takes a lot of strength. I haven't done one for a long time but there's no way i could do half a pushup!

Trus why are you doing all this stuff if you are not competing? Is it just an addiction thing? I mean you love it so much you can't not do it?
 
yes I suppose I am addicted to exercise/lifting and when you come down from an elite level it is very hard to give up the training which becomes a big part of your life and it very common for athletes to balloon up with their weight if they simply just stop training (Been there done that lol). I train less now than I did but as I have a lot more strength than most I still need to do what sounds hard for some just to achieve a maintenance level. - I doesn't hurt the ego either :D

even while I am not actively competing I still have to stay strong for coaching (helps to be able to demonstrate an exercise rather than just explaining it) and it helps especially when you coach men, to be strong physically as well as mentally, I normally coach female players but do coach men sometimes.

I also need a lot of strength to be able to restrain one of my sons If he goes into an Autistic fit of adrenalin fuelled rage in a public place (it is amazing how strong someone can be when they have no inhibitions to stop them using ALL of their strength and energy putting themselves and others in danger).

I also need to maintain a good level of strength and cardio fitness when I am working as a sports medic for both the sprints onto the field and the lifting involved (stretcher/ chairlift etc). sports events in the country don't usually have the benefit of nifty little buggies or wheeled stretcher that they have at big events and city games, Front Row Rugby players are not light lol
 
Thanks for that. Its interesting and sounds totally sensible too.

Men are strong. Even when they are puny they are a lot stronger than me. So yeah with your son, i can totally see the need for strength.
 
I noticed most guys who have lots of muscle now tend to just replace that with fat later on in years lol. They still look bulky but not the same kind of bulk. I think having an active coach is much more inspiring too. If you have one that doesn't do what they talk about or who seems in worse shape then you are then I feel less inspired. I don't discount their advice its just very noticeable when they don't take their own advice lol

I can't imagine being very small and trying to restrain a boy or a man. I think even my little nephew is starting to surpass my own strength but I can use jiu jitsu to counteract his weight sometimes lol Thankfully learning jiu jitsu has even allowed me to occasionally beat my fiance if we are playing around but still hard. I would definitely see good reason to keep that training up not just for that but for your own health.

If you enter I wish you luck on getting the national record! I haven't ever won anything that involved physical prowess.. well I did get most improved when I played basketball but I was horrible to begin with lol I think it would be nice to win something because you are better then everyone else though :)
 
urgh, I just feel not "with it" today, it is a show holiday the kids are at home and hubby wants to go for a drive south to go to the cinema and go shopping at the large shopping centre which we don't have locally.
 
I have been fighting off a bit of the flu but I think it may have more to do with not really wanting to go out today.
 
Look after yourself. If a lot of people are off (do I understand it's a regional holiday, like Melbourne Cup in Melbourne? I'm from Sydney, we don't have any of those) it'll probably be an absolute zoo at that shopping centre. Wouldn't blame you if you didn't want to go.
 
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