#leg care

[kcowgill]

And I got a little busy last night, resuming my lifting where I left off. Which not even halfway through the front squats felt like a mistake, so I stopped :)

Then some Beat Saber and even a little Creed. Topped off the night doing some quality reading while sitting in my compression boots, then upstairs for my leg stretcher, Hypervolt, and R8 roller.

Trying to let my legs know I care for them.

Deeply.

[kcowgill]

Lifting + Beat Saber last night. Continuing forward progression on my lifts, but last night was rough since I’m supposed to have 2 days rest between the workouts I did Tuesday and Wednesday nights. Ah well, I got through it. Most importantly (I should’ve mentioned this a couple of days ago), my hand is feeling TONS better. A little discomfort on bench presses, but overhead press was super great (as far as pain/discomfort) and I didn’t have to alter my grip!

Leg self-care last night: compression boots while reading Living Kindness, splits stretcher while using my Hypervolt, ultrasound, foot spa + epsom salts, new “tri-planar” stretches as recommended by the guy I saw on Tuesday. I think all that took me about 2 hoursish? All while moving the weeks (or more*) laundry through the washer/dryer.

* Because there’s no way in heck my daughter could’ve worn that many pieces of clothing since my last laundry day when we got back from vacation this past weekend. I think she might be putting clothes she doesn’t want/don’t fit any more in her hamper instead of in the donation pile. I’m going to have to talk to her about that. Again.

[kcowgill]

4/29/2019 3.11 miles/5.01 kilometers Testing the Torins on the Treadmill YTD: 275.06 miles

Since the treadmill seems to bother my foot the most, I figured I’d test out my Altra Torins with freshly-doctored insole on the treadmill. Didn’t hurt that it was cold and rainy outside. Started conservatively, felt pretty decent so upped the speed throughout. And of course, Rene joined me for his “easy 3″. He was done before me :(

I think I’ve identified another spot I want to alleviate some ball-of-foot pressure from, so I’ll give that a go and further doctor the insoles before my next run. Whenever that is. I’m leaving work early tomorrow to spectate my son in a school play, starting at 1:30pm. Which is completely ridiculous - how do they expect parents to attend? Do they really think people can afford to live in the city of Chicago on a single income?

Anyhow.

Lifted after dinner and before the kids went to bed. Overhead press (my hand is feeling much better now - not 100%, but mostly OK at least for lifting), incline bench press, lateral raise, dummbbell flies.

Capped off the night with my compression boots, splits stretcher + hypervolt, ultrasound, foot bath (shown above), extra hypervolting my right “compartment” (under the inside of my shin bone), and some tri-planar stretching as prescribed by the guy who dry-needled me last week.

Speaking of which, I had my 2nd of 4 EPAT (extracorporeal pulse activation treatment) appointments today. He started off at the same, uh. Energy level? he left off with last week, so naturally the intra-treatment pain/discomfort level started off fairly high. And then he stepped it up a couple of times.

No pain no gain, amirite?

[kcowgill]

2/19/2019 1.04 miles/1.67 kilometers This thing is WHACK (Oh and a high score!) YTD: 154.66 miles 50 days in a row

Supposed to be an easier run week (than the previous week) but since I missed 3 miles last week this week’s plan has it about the same mileage as last week. Fine.

10 minutes on the stairmill, a little faster than the last 10 minutes. A few more floors, and WAY more elevation! To recap, 73 floors was 481 feet, this was 80 floors at 853 feet. I figured out it was just reporting the height of whatever thing I had just climbed past - and they don’t have anything between the Great Pyramid of Giza and the Transamerica building in San Francisco. Thus why 51 floors = 481 feet (Pyramid of Giza again) and 73 floors is also “481 feet”.

Enough of that nonsense - I decided I’d report the elevation more accurately going forward. According to the internet, the height of each step is 8 inches, and it considers a floor to be 16 steps. Thus, a floor is 10′8″. I plugged that information into my spreadsheet, entered today’s 80 floors, multiplied by 10.66, and got...

852.8 feet.

That’s right folks, today’s elevation happened to be actually accurate.

But I’ll still start counting it this way going forward.

Taekwondo was a small class. I was the highest belt. First we paired off for self defense. I got paired up with the next highest belt, a cho dan bo/deputy black belt who’s one test away from his junior equivalent black belt but won’t be testing this weekend. Regardless, he’s a young kid (somewhere around 12-14 I’d wager) who doesn’t seem to have much oomph in his gusto. So the self defense was pretty lackluster. Then forms - chun-ji, taegeuk 1-8, koryo, and keumgang. We doubled up the ‘target’ forms for each person’s belt level, so we did taegeuk 5 twice for Kevin (a high blue belt), taegeuk 7 twice for Jeff (high brown belt), koryo twice for Spiro, and keumgang twice for me. Then a quick round of “keep the plastic grocery bag afloat” (quite reminiscent of hackey sack) and that was pretty much it.

I had brought my re-breakable board to class and asked Master Mark to hold it for me, since I’d never broken it. He first held it a pretty non-standard way for a sidekick, and it was a little high for me. Sure enough my support leg flew out from under me and I landed on my side like a doof*. He held it normally and I broke it. Verdict: it’s harder than the thick boards we use during testing. But I’m not sure quite how much.

I practiced a few hammer fist strikes since I’ll be breaking a brick this weekend (since I wasn’t asked to break one to get my 1st dan (why**!?!?)).

Beat Saber after the kids went down. Continued doing new songs on expert level at 90% speed. I actually did pretty well! Finished up with $100 bill and Rum ‘n’ Bass on Hard at 150% speed, and then Pop Stars on expert normal speed. Good times.

Spent some time in my compression boots reading a few chapters of a book on mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh, then stretched out in my leg stretcher while massaging my thighs with my Hypervolt. Ah, the good life.

* Now my leg’s killing me. I might actually end up having a bruise (which is pretty rare for me).

** Actually I think I know why - Master Chung is pretty much checked out and ready to retire. i think he just didn’t get around to buying any bricks. Since Master Chris has been taking over, they’re being sure to take care of issues like this and then some.

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How Should We Do Leg Care?

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