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    mclaincausey
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    @Eza said in Lifter problems:

    @iammortalcombat I am very interested to see how the 1955 will fit so far the 634S has been succulent and if you want to talk about samurai the 634 is based after the ultimate samurai Miyamoto Musashi!

    Agreed! Ought to read Eiji Yoshikawa’s novelization of his life if you haven’t.

    Think it, be it.

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      Eza
      @mclaincausey
      Joined: 1 May 2024

      @mclaincausey I started practicing Kendo back in the 90s at University and became intrigued by all things Miyamoto Musashi! I have read it and it is excellent. Also, read all his published works and most recently the manga "Vagabond" which is epic and wonderful...

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        iammortalcombat
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        @Eza
        Joined: 2 Jan 2022

        @Eza honestly I haven’t done more than soak them. I had gotten my 888s maybe a week before the samurai s510. Soaked the samurais to remove starchiness and then they got put away. I’ll probably rotate them in this year once the summer is over. Way too hot here for 21oz as it’s already 80f and 60-80% humidity.

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          Eza
          @popvulture
          Joined: 1 May 2024

          @popvulture lets hope!

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            EdH
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            Joined: 2 Jan 2022

            I’ve named them Papa Bear, Mama Bear and Baby Bear. All three are bastards, but Papa Bear is the biggest bastard of the lot.
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            Take the dive...

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              flannel slut
              Raw and Unwashed
              @EdH
              Joined: 21 Feb 2022

              @EdH that your home set up? Let’s see a full pic w that rack!

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                EdH
                Iron Heart Deity
                @flannel slut
                Joined: 2 Jan 2022

                @flannel-slut here you go:

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                Take the dive...

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                  flannel slut
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                  @EdH
                  Joined: 21 Feb 2022

                  @EdH good shit man. Gymnastic rings were a surprise! Calisthenics guy?

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                    EdH
                    Iron Heart Deity
                    @flannel slut
                    Joined: 2 Jan 2022

                    @flannel-slut I've done a bit of everything.

                    I was into powerlifting for a good 8 or 9 years or so - and initially put this gym together in early 2021 during the lockdowns with the rack, a couple of barbells, and something like a combined 260kg available in plates - but decided to pack it in at the end of 2022 after further progress became too much effort, I was getting too heavy, and (with the baby on the way especially) taking 2 hours a day to work out was becoming selfish.

                    When the baby turned up I was looking for workouts that I could do in under an hour and spent 2023 doing calisthenics and trying to get a skill or two under my belt (unsuccessfully). I wrecked my shoulder falling out of a handstand in the middle of '23 and spent 6 months or so seeing a physiotherapist and just doing what I could in the gym without causing the shoulder to flare up.

                    Earlier this year while looking for ways to enhance my shoulder strength and stability I came across some macebell workouts on YouTube, so I got one of those. And that led to another (heavier) one of those, then some kettlebells, and over the weekend I filled up those three sandbags.

                    So my training now is some sort of hybrid between bodybuilding and functional strength. I usually do some shoulder warmups then 3-5 sets of a main compound lift like bench, pullups, ring-dips, for the first 20-30 mins, then do a circuit with the kettlebell, macebell, and (now) sandbags. It's just sort of intuitive what I'll do each day at the moment, and I really need to sit down and workout a proper regime to follow for a few months and track progress against.

                    So Tl;Dr: "calisthenics guy?" - I dabbled. 😅

                    Take the dive...

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                      Graeme
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                      @EdH
                      Joined: 30 Mar 2012

                      @EdH take a look at the Andrew Lock Big Three as a basic shoulder rehabilitation series.

                      He's added a fourth exercise to the sequence recently. If you've got access to Instagram.

                      https://www.instagram.com/andrew_lock_strength/reel/C3HAYNxSzIm/

                      Dr Lock is a genius physiotherapist who specialises in strength athletes. I used Dani, the girl in the first video, as a PT for a while to rehabilitate my back. (She fobbed me off on her boyfriend, as she felt his training style would benefit me.)

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                        flannel slut
                        Raw and Unwashed
                        @EdH
                        Joined: 21 Feb 2022

                        @EdH much respect in attempting calisthenics! similar journey as yours with the home gym during Covid lockdowns and suffered a shoulder injury as well -mine was from swinging an axe, nothing cool like trying to walk on your hands.

                        Sounds like your on the right path to strengthening your shoulder and like @Graeme have a video I swear by as well (incorporates a lot of the same external rotation principles tho my guy is allergic to shirts).

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                          popvulture
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                          Not sure if this would be of any help @EdH but I had an interesting thing happen recently with shoulder related stuff. I’ve been working out pretty intensely for a couple years now but really ramped it up at the beginning of this year after moving from home stuff to a gym.

                          I started having some bad pain in my shoulder, but thankfully mobility tests indicated to me that it was more impingement or bursitis than something like a tear. It nonetheless sucked to work around.

                          Unrelated, I ended up with contact dermatitis in the form of a super uncomfortable rash on my arms, which my dermatologist attributed to likely detergent or something of the sort. He put me on a course of prednisone. I’ve gotta say — the shit made me feel crazy but the immunosuppressant nature of a steroid like that meant that all the inflammation in my body chilled out. I think the time on it gave my shoulder some time to rest and now it feels a million times better. So, it was a weird way to get there, but I really appreciated the unexpected side effect.

                          Funnily enough, a lot of the other general aches and pains in my body came right back when the medication was finished. Old man problems haha….

                          WTB
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                            EdH
                            Iron Heart Deity
                            @Graeme
                            Joined: 2 Jan 2022

                            @Graeme Thanks mate. My issue was I f'd up my teres muscles. My physio gave me a little routine to follow at the start of each workout, and I do that. The macebell swinging is really helping otherwise, and I haven't had a flare up in 8 months or so now.

                            @flannel-slut yup, I recognise those and put some of them in my routine. To hit the teres maj. and min. I also do some overhead circles against the band, trying to keep my shoulder blades flat against my back as I do so. The stepping out and then resisting the eccentric looks like a good modification to what I do now, which would require more stability than just going heavier on the concentric. Might work those in!

                            @popvulture Glad to hear your shoulder got accidentally sorted! Like I say, mine is hopefully fixed now, (at least until I do something else stoopid). I hear you on getting old. Funny how my fitness goals became "be able to do fun stuff at weekends" and "don't be an embarrassing dad on sports day" as soon as kiddo arrived!

                            Take the dive...

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                              popvulture
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                              @EdH haha yeah I have to watch myself on the stoopid as well. I want my experience with ‘roids (albeit of a different variety than the typical swole type) to be a one time thing 😅

                              WTB
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                                flannel slut
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                                @popvulture
                                Joined: 21 Feb 2022

                                @popvulture +1 for prednisone!! Took a prescription of that to clear some nasty poison ivy a few summers ago… I had spare energy for days!!!! The house never looked to clean
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                                  popvulture
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                                  Joined: 2 Oct 2018

                                  @flannel-slut lmao RIGHT? I had to take Benadryl every single night or I couldn’t sleep. Gnarly shit!

                                  WTB
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                                    EdH
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                                    Joined: 2 Jan 2022

                                    @flannel-slut Shhhh, or Mrs H will start sneaking it into my food!

                                    Take the dive...

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                                      Graeme
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                                      @EdH
                                      Joined: 30 Mar 2012

                                      @EdH the theory that Andrew Lock promotes is that most injuries are down to a weakness, and it's the muscle that's working overtime that's hurting.

                                      I'm glad that yours is on the mend. I've been struggling with back issues over the last few months, which I'd rather not have to deal with.

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                                        EdH
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                                        @Graeme
                                        Joined: 2 Jan 2022

                                        @Graeme said in Lifter problems:

                                        most injuries are down to a weakness

                                        I believe this. I recall reading about a study that found lower incidence of back injury among powerlifters and strongmen than the general population. This seems counterintuitive - the common knowledge is that picking up heavy things can be hazardous - but it makes perfect sense when you realise that the people who have spent time picking up heavy things are going to have ironed out any weaknesses in their backs that the rest of us would leave unnoticed.

                                        I do a sort of butterfly movement for my shoulders while lying prone, which seems like it's been developed from Lockean principles. Shown from 4:00 in the below:

                                        Take the dive...

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                                          popvulture
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                                          I suffer from pretty bad low back problems, and because of this, for a while I avoided core stuff and exercises like deadlifts out of fear that I’d trigger another episode. Plus, gotta admit I just hate the feeling of working my abs. That said, not too long ago I started to push aside that fear and have been trying to build more strength in that area. Doing deadlifts and barbell squats have most certainly helped, and I started working up the strength to do things like hanging leg raises for my abs and obliques, as they’re a shitload friendlier to my back than something like crunches (ugh).

                                          It does seem counterintuitive, but it’s so true. Pushing past that initial, scary weakness has meant more protection for my back in the end. Now if I can just get rid of this layer of flab that sits on top of my abs…

                                          WTB
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