Saturday, March 24, 2012

Training - Squats and Interview with my PT

Bodyweight - 243

Leg Press - 6 plates per side x 4 sets of 20

Pause Squats - up to 455 x 5 singles, then 500 x 1

Not as much pain today. Still not pain free by any means, and 500 was not fast on the pause squats, but I feel like I'm making progress.

Lunges - 4 sets of 20

Here is the interview I did with my PT about what my injury is, and we're doing to fix it.

Part 1 and Part 2 -





17 comments:

  1. great stuff man! gotta try out this exercises :)

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  2. Thanks for sharing that man, never been to a PT and was interesting to watch the whole process. Rob

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  3. Very cool Paul. Thanks for posting that.
    RyanH

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  4. Cool stuff man. Hey if you don't mind delving into your personal life a bit I just wanted to know what you did for a living?

    Office Linebacker?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzToNo7A-94

    I can see you yelling, "if you kill the joe, YOU MAKE SOME MORE!"

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  5. Awesome vids Paul. I work as an ET and the 2 biggest things we deal with is glute strength issues and their association to spinal problems and a lack of scapula mobility. I found these videos very interesting and looks like you have a good PT.

    Trent

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  6. Thanks for posting Paul.

    I'm in the process of applying to PT school, so this was fascinating for me.

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  7. Maybe you could do a mini-series of posts+videos with your PT about common injuries and inflexibilities, you know, knees, elbows, rotators, shoulders etc... that sure would be interesting to many people.

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    1. This is a great idea. Maybe what i can do each month is, collect some videos from guys or questions and then have wendy respond.......

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    2. Yes that would be great.

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  8. Many thanks Paul...

    I have begun doing these today and I'm enormously weak in the first exercise. Hopefully it solves my problems too. Please keep us updated on the process!

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  9. Glad I'm not the only one getting my ass kicked doing seemingly-easy PT exercises (fixing scapular instability in my shoulders right now). Thanks for the vids Paul.

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  10. Very interesting to watch, I learned quite a bit. Obviously right now your goal is some acute rehab in prep for your meet, but in the future, do you plan on doing any weighted glute work? A lot of trainers advocate the barbell hip thrust http://youtu.be/jVlQhlKf-5Q , and the barbell glute bridge http://youtu.be/03rSrFdq9P0

    Just curious what your thoughts were.

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    1. More than likely I will be putting in some glute work for lower body stuff after this.

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  11. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS3U5ibBsDU&feature=player_embedded#t=334s

    nice gastrocnemius. i have gastroc-envy

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    1. LOL thanks. All the bodybuilders at my gym are envious of my calf development. I just got fat for a couple of years and they stayed.

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  12. A couple weeks ago I started having what I thought was hip pain on my left side from squatting. No amount of foam rolling and icing helped. After reading your post I noticed I corkscrewed from the left side in and my left foot was always more forward than my right foot. I guess I naturally did this to compensate. You just saved me a whole lot of grief. Thanks Paul.

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