Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Well, today was kind of a tough day.
Yesterday I went into the gym and my legs were feeling kind of tight, so I slapped on some 25's and was going to do some 95 pound squats for a warm up. I do the first one, bam, huge pain from my groin down the inside/back of my leg. My girlfriend was with me and was saying things like, "Maybe you should take another day off." Well, I chose to ignore her advice and instead said, "Well, if it's gonna hurt I just want to get as much heavy lifting done as I can before I have to quit." I throw on 165 and and bring it up, bring it down, and right when I'm about parallel in my squat, my left leg pretty much gives out and the bar slams down on the side-bars. I put it on my shoulders and lift it back onto the rack and that was it for the day. Left leg hurt the rest of the day.
So I go in today and do some stretching first. Then I do just the bar, 45 pounds, 10 times. Then I do some more stretching. Then I put the 45's on am going down, and it hurts a little, but not too bad, and I'm about to get my legs parallel, and bam, same thing happens. I easily lift it back up after it hits the bar. Frustrated, I just left the gym. It's frustrating because I've never really lifted weights regularly ever, and when I did, it was mostly just benching, so to be hurt after just a week of lifting is just frustrating, I don't know how else to put it.
On my way back to my car I realize I can't just give up on training, so I set my phone alarm to go off in 10 minutes from the next minute and wait for that minute to come. When it come I start jogging. I haven't ran in probably over a year at this point, so even if I'm not lifting weights it's good.
I made the first mile in under 8 minutes, but over 7. I'm not sure on the exact time, because again, I was using my cell phone. By the time 10 minutes was up, I hit about 1 3/8 miles. Which isn't bad considering how much running I've been doing.
Anyways, that's frustrating, I'm not sure what to do about the lifting now. I was just ultra frustrated by the whole thing.
After this I go home and eat a little, then head off to jiu-jitsu. My groin is killing me now. Jiu-Jitsu went like this:
10 minutes pad work
10 minutes of pumelling to take-down positions
10 minutes of working a take-down from locking that one underhook in
10 minutes drilling arm-lock from being in someone's cross-side.
10 minutes of drilling the counter to that arm-lock
10 minutes of positioning where one person attempts to mount from cross-side while the other attempts to escape cross-side.
30 minutes of rolling
As an added plus, while doing the postioning my knee slammed into the other guy's knee, and now it hurts as well. My left leg is officially messed up for the moment. I guess I can work cardio or something for now.... ideas anyone?
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