Sunday afternoon.
"Bottom" ST workout.
I felt a slight niggle on my right MCL while pyramiding up to my max deadlift, so quickly pyramided down. First time I've felt the MCL over on that side. I wonder if my form was off. Or if I was thinking too much about the recent passing of the great Joe Weider, one of guys who really turned weight training into a science in the 60s and 70s. My older brother always had those books and mags laying around and that's where I learned the basics when I was just starting out.
Anyway, no matter, I didn't feel the MCL on the other leg and glute exercises, and was still able to up the weight on my leg extensions a bit, leading to much quad soreness today. I also did my first hanging knee tucks today on my new pull-up bar. Marvelous. I'd been missing those, so much more fun than sit-ups and crunches.
This is where it pays to not be all that goal oriented. It wouldn't be very satisfying to be laid up.
Yah, this half mary coming up in August keeps trying to mess with my head, but I've gotten pretty good at overriding it by listening to my body's soothing voice of reason. Goals and injuries can become a vicious circle of overtraining, injury, further overtraining to make up for lost time, then re-injury. Glad I finally spun free. I ain't upping the mileage until my current mileage feels more comfortable, no matter the timeline.
I get a little IT stuff on my right side whenever I'm not doing those hip abductor/adductor exercises, but I'm recalling that as long as I do them it stays away. Needless to say, since I hate doing them, they don't happen very often, so I'd be a hypocrite to recommend them. Meh, I've been worse.
I've gotten pretty religious about ITB stretches, static and dynamic, and massaging too. I like to do the hip abductor/adductor exercises standing up with ankle weights, swaying my free leg to and fro like a pendulum in front of the supporting leg. It's more fun for me to do it that way than laying on the floor or with cables.
Waitaminute...I'm the guy starting the week 13 thread?
I think you should take up this position permanently. Always good to have some humor in the weekly mileage opener, loosens up the crowd.