shit, Mike!
Mike is the exercise physiologist that I'm seeing. Not romantically, just for torture. Last week I had my assessment and yesterday was the first day of exercises. And here are the places I'm sore: too numerous to list; let's just say everywhere. I can't turn my torso; one of "my" goals (in quotes, because he set the goals for me based on my test results) is to increase core strength. So that was fun.
I was almost at breakdown point yesterday. I kept thinking that I have NO business training other people when these exercises are so hard for me. Luckily, Adam was there to talk some sense into me: 'this is how you'll get stronger', not 'this is because you are a weak baby.' Why do I have such negative self talk when I repeat a million times a day "you can do this, you are strong enough, I know you can do two more"? Maybe it's because I'm saying those things to people who pay me to say it. Hmmm.
Here are the assessment results:
knee adduction, right leg dominant, torso flexion
this means that when I squat, my knees turn out and I lean to my right. Left leg wusses out.
left arm dominant
during pushups. Interesting...
feet supinate
and again my knees turn out. No wonder my knees hurt often-my alignment is all fucked up!
So he gave me a bunch of HARD exercises to correct these things and to improve my strength/flexibility balance. If it wasn't so hard, it'd feel like a super fun project to embark on. Maybe in a few weeks I will feel like that. But right now I can't take a deep breath.
I was almost at breakdown point yesterday. I kept thinking that I have NO business training other people when these exercises are so hard for me. Luckily, Adam was there to talk some sense into me: 'this is how you'll get stronger', not 'this is because you are a weak baby.' Why do I have such negative self talk when I repeat a million times a day "you can do this, you are strong enough, I know you can do two more"? Maybe it's because I'm saying those things to people who pay me to say it. Hmmm.
Here are the assessment results:
knee adduction, right leg dominant, torso flexion
this means that when I squat, my knees turn out and I lean to my right. Left leg wusses out.
left arm dominant
during pushups. Interesting...
feet supinate
and again my knees turn out. No wonder my knees hurt often-my alignment is all fucked up!
So he gave me a bunch of HARD exercises to correct these things and to improve my strength/flexibility balance. If it wasn't so hard, it'd feel like a super fun project to embark on. Maybe in a few weeks I will feel like that. But right now I can't take a deep breath.