Strapped the busted little toe up this morning and took it out for a run. Nothing excessive, or even impressive. Just a trundle around Teneriffe up and down a few hills, with one set of five stair runs along the way.
The toe was perf’, but my knee felt like it was going to explode a couple of times. I guess I’ve been walking on that leg in a slightly weird, almost clenched fashion for over a month to protect the break. If so, I paid for it this morning. The knee is still throbbing, but not so badly that I wont try this again in another week. In the mean time it’s back to the pool and those sexy sexy 1980s style aerobic floor exercises.
Oh, and weights.
Is your knee doing the same or a similar thing to when it was playing up late last year?
Different. A whole new kinda pain.
sexy 80′s style aerobic pool exercises ..yeah right!. Like sexy even come into the fkn equation!
YOU have a penchant for the glossification of reality! THATS A NEW HAVOCK WORD BTW.
think, shit into strawberry jam!
Yeah, it’s a problem when your body does that – compensates and stuffs up other things.
I’m not a runner – generally I dislike it and choose something else instead, but I went out for a run to clear my head after a shit day last week and was in all sorts of pain afterwards.
The lack of movement in a once-broken ankle means that the big toe has to move more and everything gets out of whack and strained.
The best solution I know for this kind of thing is stretches and massage to reduce the muscle tension and try and use your regular gait as much as possible.
Best of luck with it JB.
Shit mate that sucks, I’m on restricted training too. Did my shoulder wakeboarding about a fortnight ago and it just wont get better. Went out wakeboarding again this morning and reinjured it. so fkn annoying
Going to have to take the next week off training I think, maybe just do some running like you.
Does that mean 80′s style spandex was involved?
This coming Sat is my fitness assessment at the gym my partenr and I have joined, oh the pain, oh the humanity of it. Just what the ego needs, to have some lycra clad energizer bunny to tell me what I already know. Let the pain and hardship towards a fitter, sleeker me begin!
yes Mat, but think and remember WHAT the energiser BUNNY MIGHT LOOK LIKE!..
funny about shoulders Lobes. I kind of wrecked mine a long time ago and should have had it fixed, they seem to settle but I suspect that’s where they get very dangerous, in that they are NOT fixed. Just not hurting or painful, then ZAP, you do something and its back to square one.
I suspect that post pain or niggles with shoulders there really needs to be a very structured and gradual build up to full strength. Having said that, it sounds easier than it really is in my opinion. Good luck with that one, absolute fkn bastard of an injury .
Ignore Havsy, Mat. He’s just grumpy because the U-9s in his cricket team mock the way his bones creak as he shuffles after the ball on his walking frame.
As for your fitness assessment, when they ask what your goal is, try my approach. I just wrote down: to not be a fat bastard anymore.
That sucks. Injuries I can live with, but the compensatory injuries just plain suck. You’re trying to keep your fitness up through an injury and just end up injuring something else.
Being in the pool is good though. I am currently training about 8 times a week for this fkn triathlon and I reckon it’s only the 2 to 3 pool sessions that are saving me from being crippled with pain. No impact exercise has it’s benefits.
you are right on the secondary injuries Naut, I got COLD Burns from a Beer Stubby that had been CHILLED to much, that then made me switch hands to the left to hold the beers and then I found I was afflicted with a RSI injury from drinking to many stubbies ;left handed without sufficient fitness in that arm.. fkn terrible it was
Havock, you need one of these:
http://images.tradekool.com/119970200/Beer-Helmet-Pl-2216.jpg
Energiser bunny has a habit of wearing very short blue stripe lycra shorts, the missus was not impressed especially since the “dude” loves his lunges.
I must admit I am looking forward too it. The swivel chair spread will be minimized, and the most manly of exercises will be utilized “the Pull up”.
Mr Birmingham, Sir, I do hope you are wearing leggings under your 80′s thong leotard. My Lord and Master Greybeard (Keeper of the Torch, Bringer of Gruel, Stretcher of Lycra) should have a spare pair if you need some. I am sure he could be convinced to part with them for a small bribe. An Emjoi Gently should suffice considering the current state of his bikini zone.
I had an ankle reconstruction last year and it’s much the same thing. It’s not the actual place where the injury is that is the pain in the ass, it’s all of the muscles that deteriorate as a result of the injury that cause the most amount of grief. I’ve had three major surgeries on ankles and knees in my life, and it’s always the same thing. If you don’t take the time to build up the muscle strength again (and I’m no Arnie-type here) you pay and pay later on. The second major operation I skimped on the physio because I wasn’t really aware how important it was. Two years later and it was difficult to walk because of the pain in my back and hips, and I had to modify my walking gait just to get over the pain. Six months of even harder work to get over that debacle taught me the importance of making sure it’s right right after the injury occurs, or you pay through the nose later on.
Well no such healthy living for me. Instead I spent yesterday pogo-ing to live music in the sun (& a little rain) @ Big Day Out GoldCoast.
Observations:
Regurgitator still Fkn rock. Even with a substitute drummer.
The Hill Top Hoods are Fkn gods, although I thought they were a touch off. They were doing a private battle @ one stage: who can go faster Mr Suffa spitting lyrics, the drummer or the guy on the decks, perhaps fun for them, but my belly don’t bounce @ 160 bpm.
Drapht were a big suprise, those boys can make a room go orff.
Sluts ‘r us Fashions must have a chain of outlets on the Goldy. Good lordy, the eye candy. Troubling for a 40+ year old man. I’d like to thank all those 19-20 year old girlies for sharing.
@ M’sM
I could have died happier never having thought of Khan Greybeards bikini zone.
Mr Nowhere Bob, Sir, I notice you made no mention of the thought of Mr Birmingham in an 80′s thong leotard. Is it that he is more ripped than My Lord and Master Greybeard (Keeper of the Torch, Bringer of Gruel, Rat Drill Sergeant)? Or is it that he uses the Emjoi Gently my Lord and Master so desperately needs?
@M’sM
Your average ceolenterate is more ripped than Greybeard.
Mr Nowhere Bob, Sir, appearances can be deceiving. I doubt any jellyfish could jump onto a toilet seat with the same alacrity and indeed agility as did my Lord and Master Greybeard (Keeper of the Torch, Bringer of Gruel, Big Girls Blouse) when confronted by my Raterati.
First runs lead to 2nd runs, good on you JB, don’t give it up. I’ve survived 2 months of Football practice and only got knocked out once…even out ran some of the kiddos who graduated a couple of years back. Now it’s on to gamenight on the 27th….we’ll see how that goes.
Ear-burning sensation means my slanDAR is working. But I will ignore these ill-natured jibes and stay more or less on topic. Running is right out for me, possibly permanently, due to Sudden Leg Collapse syndrome & discriminatory surgeons who won’t repair 40+ ligaments. Been doing light weights regularly which is OK for the upper body, but ignoring the legs. Helping the neighbour yesterday involved moving around in his roof space in a half squat for about 30 min. Oh. The. Pain. May have discovered a new fad. Roofercise? Duckwalkercise? And rats don’t make me jump M’sM. I’ve spent many a happy hour reading with a couple of little ratties sitting on my shoulder or climbing around my shirt.
I believe technicly they’d be referred to as familiars.
Indeed.
Back on topic, if tangentially.
JB don’t like to swim, Wrinkly can’t run, I can’t be arsed doing either.
Why can’t one of those big brains come up with an exercise regime that is as nice as veging out in front of a TV. C’mon Brig Barnes, when are your sciematists going to do something good for a change?
Bob, you seem to be trying to invent the rowing machine.
Here I disregard the spring-tensioned contraptions one trips over at a gym. The resistance must come from the passage of a blade through a fluid medium, so driving an impeller immersed in a tub, or better, a large fan arranged to provide a refreshing breeze in direct proportion to effort, is a minimum requirement. There may well overpriced offerings that meet these criteria, but there always seems to be something “wrong” about those, unless they were made before about 1950. You need a real oar, or indeed a pair of sculls, for instance. So bespoke seems to be the only way to go…
Actually I’m interested to experiment with sliding-rowlocks by way of alternative to a sliding seat, when I finally get around to finishing the little rowboat in the back shed. Since it’s a fair bit beamier than your basic shell, these would be of the form of stub outriggers on tracks, both connected to the (also moving) footboard.
Hadn’t really thought of this in terms of the stationary apparatus before, but it does seem that this arrangement would offer some novel possibilities. Albeit lacking the advantage on the water gained by obviating the effect of the sliding seat on boat trim.
Remember to wear Lycra gear that show cases your genitals to get that real ’80s look.
On a more serious note: Rowing machine, that’s the way to go like Damian says.
Or does that make the toe hurt too? Break an extremity and one soon realises that we depend on them a lot more than one thought, I once squashed my index finger and was surprised and irritated to learn that.
I got a rowboat for Christmas. Despite the limited rowing potential in the family pool, it is proving to be excellent arm exercise – mainly because I have to keep thwacking the kidlets upside the head with the oars, to stop them overturning the damned thing and dumping me in the water. Little bastards seem to think it’s funny.
BLUNTY INSURANCE JB:..sorry for the thread jack.
You had to do an article on China didn’t you!
Whilst I cannot disagree with where we are now, the CHINESE MODEL as it now stands is unsustainable..why…their middle class thats why!
Fact is, their people will continue to want more, the cannot maintain the advantage of low cost manufacturing of anything and keep the vast…AND I MEAN FKN VAST numbers of the middle income earners happy.
China will implode at some point and I hope its well before we end up in some kind of brawl. WHAT! BRAWL..what nonsense you say. They, that’s the leadership are an anarchistic throw back to the fkn dark ages..china as I have said before needs its political leaders kicked in the head NOW, before it costs us serious cash and serious numbers of lives.
I HAVE NO FKN TIME FOR THEM WHATSOEVER..I WILL NOT TRAVEL THERE..Their human rights suck, they are THE FKN BULLY!.
NUKE THE FKRS FROM ORBIT!
insurance 2:
Hey, did you mention that China is already building a vast NAVY and has imperial ambitions…except that they have no concern for life and limb at all, will incarcerate foreign persons at a fkn whim, thumb their nose at any convention they like, continue to litter space with debris from Anti Satellite tests, try and control the water in their North, SLAM the Tibetans and anybody else they think they can get away with, they WANT the South CHINA sea as their own lake, they WANT the Spratly Islands as theirs, they want want and want. AGAIN!…NUKE THE FKRS…NOW, at least the part HQ.
I’m not biased…or mean…just a fkn practical person.
I will learn CHINESE when they take the GUN from my cold dead fkn hands,
YOU want me on that wall, you NEED ME ON THAT WALL!.
and after all this I have to go to a job interview..nice one JB!..All calm and angered out!
@ Matt K, remember your old fulcrum stuff. Load, force & fulcrum, levers only work to your advantage in certain configurations. Like the guy who rigged his own block & tackle and then couldn’t shift the engine he was trying to lift, as he had the block “going the wrong way.”
Also I’d suspect that rowing technology (obviously excluding materials tech) was refined about as much as it was ever going to be a hundred years ago.
Nah rowing technology made a huge leap in the 1990′s when they invented cleaver blades. Hull design is radically different over the last few decades too. I’m fairly sure also that there have been several attempts to make a sliding oarlock but for whatever reason it hasnt taken off.
Its hard to beat rowing machine for cardio. You could do it with a busted toe I think, you need a good footstrike at the beginning of your stroke but that mostly comes through the balls of your feet. I’m doing ergos 2-3 times a week. Progress has been amazing.
NBob – as I understand it, sliding rowlocks were developed around the same time as sliding seats, simply it is the latter that took off. Possibly materials technology and cost were factors. Since then, several systems for sliding rowlocks have been developed.
There’s a trade-off where the extra weight needed to link the oarlocks to the stretcher mechanically has to be offset by increased efficiency. There are two reasons for increased efficiency. First the boat’s trim is effected by the shift in its centre of mass as the rower(s) slide back and forth (more an issue for shorter boats than long racing shells, granted). Second the shift in mass affects the boat’s momentum on both the stroke and recovery: sure the nett effect must cancel out in the end, but since wave-making resistance on the hull is a steady function of boat speed, you want the momentum to be likewise steady.
Lobes, as I understand it FISA banned sliding oarlocks from competition in the 80s. The rationale being to avoid forcing clubs to change to remain competitive. It would be interesting to compare two eights with all other things being equal… not sure if it’s been done.