Training Log Archive: Wyatt

AJ's got 80% of the skills and 50% of the attention span needed to complete a White course by himself.

Very slow run on ~5 steps and very fast walk on another 30-60 seconds (keeping up with AJ & Michelle.)

One long PT (light) and one short-set (heat/stretch/ice)

Event: Hudson Valley Sprints (Reschuled)
 

5 min + 10 min Leg had slight burn during ~6-8 min of 2nd set, fine by end. Maybe I should do more.

Elliptical, Lifefitness, L4, 55 rpm

Leg pain barely noticable today. So little that I didn't even feel bothered to do my PT work until 7pm. Good pain, bad training. I wonder if the extra hard stretching of the Left leg (and a little more on the Right for some symmetry) is the valuable thing?

10 swim, 4 water run, 5 swim, 8 water run, gym/stretch/strength, 6 elliptical

4 min, then 8 min. Leg a little light burning during end of the 4-min set and the early/middle of the 8 minute set. 'warmed up'? to almost no pain by the end.

Light pressure seems to be a surprisingly touchy thing - by adjusting the seem of my swimming shorts, and moving where it presses on the hamstring, I can go from lightly annoying pain to no pain. It's not like it's any tighter than the other leg - just that the L-hamstring is senstive to the pressure...

Elliptical backwards, level 4, 50rpm

Long PT has been modified a bit, and now includes:
Stretch
- Hams: straight, IT & eccentric (same)
- Quad, hip flexor, IT, calf (mostly same, ex. hip flexor now done with front foot elevated and back knee not on ground)
- Hams - Extra L-leg (and less R-leg) single leg stretch whenever burn is present - standing with one leg up in front. ( This seems to help in Florida & after a 'Sprint' walk a few months back too - to quell burning as soon as it starts. )
Exercises
- Bridging, feet on ball, with slow roll-off of ball (eccentric hams + balance)
- Prone plank (1-leg at a time for 5 sec each) & pushups (same)
- Laying on back and 'running' with knees bent and pelvic tilt (lower back held firmly to mat, alternating lifting opposite arm-leg pairs.)
- Hamstring weight machine (on stomach) - both-legs do concentric, then slow eccentric motion with L leg. (did 15x15lbs today, vs. 10x10 lbs on Monday - a big jump, but 10x10 was exceedingly easy and even 15x15 was pretty easy)

Pain:
None at the end of today's workout. Nice.

1 Long & 1 Short self PT session. I wonder if it's helping. I seem to be doing slightly more exercise than a week ago although I'm not noticably less sore. I was hoping for more and more time with no pain, but after a few hours last Friday, there's still a light burn on/off.

Again, for the new readers out there, the light burn is really not a big deal - it's just that it seems like, based on a few tries over the last 5 months, that if I try to increase activity through burn, the burn just gets worse and worse until I can barely sit on it - still at very low levels of activity (e.g. little to no running!)

So this is keeping my activity level low. I'm going to a new doc on Friday who apparently does "needling." Kinda like the prolo-therapy (?) or even more similar to what I think Zhuk has tried for his Achilles.

C • What's that? 4

5 swim
arm stretch
5 swim (4min hard)
4 min aqua-jog
10 min swim
6 min aqua-jog
no elliptical as a really strict bent-knee stretch test failed...

mid-AM, some of long PT, mid-PM, more of long PT
Added 10x10lb hamstrings at the gym - both concentric, 100% Left leg on eccentric. Seemed rather easy, as intended... Did roll-off-ball too in the PM, and some bridging in the AM.

4m ... 6m...