Cookie wrote:To me that all reads like the chicken & the egg.
Chiro re sets back & you can't hit full position until further into the week. If it was me training you I would be expecting that to happen over weeks not days irrespective of mobility work because its quite clearly showing, to me, that after the treatment everything is where it should be both ROM & muscular strength wise. Yet a few days later your up to full position yet still saying you've got substantial weaknesses in that region.
Personally, I believe it is a result of muscular fatigue from the manipulation, but you made a good point and I will certainly keep that in mind as I believe you may be right on a few points.
Cookie wrote:I think your robbing Peter to pay Paul & using muscles you shouldn't be to achieve full position in that movement & maybe others.
More than likely. That is just the way it goes with all the wear and tear on this frame.
Cookie wrote:Since I dumped 99% of my core work & just followed what the Physiotherapist prescribed I've made more gains in mobility, balance, neuro-feedback & strength than the previous 2 years with no planks, side planks or tables in sight. Other when I slip a few in myself
Not willing to abandon core work, in fact I intend to increase it. However, I will retain your point in the sub-conscience in case I am wrong.
Cookie wrote:I know you've spent a considerable amount of time with your chiro & other stuff because of your accident & the sports you do. But it does come across to me that a trip to a Physiotherapist for some biomechanical testing (or what my physio calls an MOT) to get a bigger picture of what's going on would be money worth spent in the long term.
On this I agree, and have been meaning to do exactly this for a while now. I only know/trust one Physiotherapist and just have not made the commitment to travel 3+ hrs one way to get tested.
Plus to be perfectly honest, I like puzzles and challenges, especially of this nature. Finding the answers through my own trials and errors and research is what drives me.
Cookie wrote:Painful yes. And some days when things pop in my leg/hip during stretches & the tendons start to twitch, move around & generally give off signals of disapproval as they go back into areas they have not seen in a decade. With sweat running down my forehead & a face like its seen a ghost I do wonder if its all worth the effort.
Of course its worth it. Anybody can be average. Anybody can do nothing. This type of work will separate you from the pack. Besides, with kids, that are interested in training, you don't have a choice. Like it or not you are a role model for both them, their friends, and their parents. They might not appreciate it now, but twenty-thirty years from now your kid will be asking the same question you just did and then remember "Hell, my dad was lifting stones and finishing tops in Spartan Races until he was seventy and this is why. I am only thirty-five wtf am I thinking?" If your lucky they will just keep rolling with it and never fall in the trap we did and the question will never be asked.
Train on my friend! One armed handstands when we are 70!
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