Random Thought Thread

Blues said:
This is right up @yoko 's alley...

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Tossing them… tossing them back. Same thing 😁
 
klee94404 said:
coolbreezy37 coolbreezy37

Depressing thought: Enjoy it while you can. Started serious lifting late in life, sidelined by a herniated disc, now age has caught up to me. My equipment in our family room is a source of never ending aggravation and complaints for my wife.
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My equipment is in the basement and is a squat rack, 500lbs of plates, Olympic barbell and dumbbells and a flat bench. I destroyed my disc and it required surgery to fix. Heavy deadlifts for too many reps with form breaking down is the culprit. Now I’m wiser as to what works and what doesn’t. I really should’ve listened to my body.
 
coolbreezy37 said:
My equipment is in the basement and is a squat rack, 500lbs of plates, Olympic barbell and dumbbells and a flat bench. I destroyed my disc and it required surgery to fix. Heavy deadlifts for too many reps with form breaking down is the culprit. Now I’m wiser as to what works and what doesn’t. I really should’ve listened to my body.
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That's more than half the battle, imho. I can't go heavy now at age 71...compared to what I could still do in my forties and fifties.

Even doing my (current) normal deadlifts for high rep sets at 320 led to an unexpected small tear in my left hamstring, and black and blue from my ass to my knee for a month. I was scared to start again and tried to find a workaround, but you know there's nothing like deadlifts.

So, I've started back by taking 10% off the bar and have been at it for a couple of weeks and all is good.

That said, I'm not a power lifter, never have been, and don't have the structure for it...so at this point I do what I can for as long as I'll be able to. Personal records that I worried about in my forties are no longer a thing...and in truth were never "competitive" with folks who are "really" strong, anyway.

Good luck getting back into it.
 
Blues said:
That's more than half the battle, imho. I can't go heavy now at age 71...compared to what I could still do in my forties and fifties.

Even doing my (current) normal deadlifts for high rep sets at 320 led to an unexpected small tear in my left hamstring, and black and blue from my ass to my knee for a month. I was scared to start again and tried to find a workaround, but you know there's nothing like deadlifts.

So, I've started back by taking 10% off the bar and have been at it for a couple of weeks and all is good.

That said, I'm not a power lifter, never have been, and don't have the structure for it...so at this point I do what I can for as long as I'll be able to. Personal records that I worried about in my forties are no longer a thing...and in truth were never "competitive" with folks who are "really" strong, anyway.

Good luck getting back into it.
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Thanks, E. That’s the best way to do it. I have to start all over, and put the ego aside. This time around I think I’ll work smarter and not harder. I am lucky that I have a large structure and genetics suited for powerlifting/strongman. Intelligent training will allow for more results than sheer brute strength. Good luck with your training as well! We got this!
 
klee94404 said:
coolbreezy37 coolbreezy37

Depressing thought: Enjoy it while you can. Started serious lifting late in life, sidelined by a herniated disc, now age has caught up to me. My equipment in our family room is a source of never ending aggravation and complaints for my wife.
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In my case, I got lucky, and it was the opposite, for me.

I was never a powerlifter/strongman, or even a gym monster. Lifting was just supplemental training for martial arts (competed in sanda/sanshou, and Muay Thai).

Through sheer stupidity when I was tired, I gave myself a slipped disc about a decade ago. I was kind of fortunate that the disc wasn’t herniated, and that when it slipped, it slipped out backwards away from the spinal cord, so it didn’t impinge on nerves and cause the pain/numbness that puts a lot of folks on their backs when a disc slips out of place.

Over the years, though, it got progressively worse, to the point it would literally slip out of place multiple times a day, every single day.

Understanding that while the disc was out of place, it was MUCH more vulnerable to being pinched by the vertebrae, resulting in a herniated disc, when it slipped out, I would instinctively round my lower back to avoid pinching it, until I could manipulate the disc back in place (which I could always do with 100% success. It usually took anywhere from 30 to 90 seconds of careful manipulation).

When it slipped out, I could not only feel it sticking out, it slipped out far enough that the bump was visible with my shirt off.

I also knew that while rounding my lower back reduced the risk of pinching that disc while it was out of place, it also put my spinal erectors in a disadvantageous position, which increased the risk of straining/injuring them. That happened in Fall 2020.

I realized that as the disc progressively slipped out more and more frequently, I had to do SOMETHING before I wound up in the hospital.

I hadn’t been lifting hard in years (and especially, had avoided putting any strain on my back). When I first began trying to rehab my back, I had to start with just bodyweight exercises. Slowly worked my way back to deadlifting, starting really light.

Hit a milestone in my 50s Summer of 2022, when I was finally able to DL 2x my bodyweight again for 5 reps. In the process, somewhere around 225x5, I noticed that the disc was only slipping out maybe a couple times a week, vs multiple times every day.

Somewhere between 275x5 and 295x5, I realized it hadn’t slipped out in a few months. Kept working at it, and was both surprised and stoked when I was finally able to pull 2x bodyweight for 5. Continuing to train and push (carefully).
 
I was very lucky and didn't need surgery. It still took 5+ years before the pain & sciatica faded.

Transitioned to more bodyweight exercises but shoulders and grip problems from 33+ years of repetitive office work has deprived me of a hard earned muscle up.
Still chasing after a press handstand but long work hours, long commute, family commitments, etc. leave me with little energy or time to train.

C'est la vie until it's time to take a dirt nap.
 
Murphjd25 said:
Rise and shine. 8 am and suns barely coming up. Loaded up the truck for a quick dump run, then back home to get the sled and BRRRRRRAAAAAAPPPPPPP
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Sunrise here won’t be till 1013 and it is 10 below zero here right now. We have had some crazy weather so far this winter and record snow in Anchorage (80” so far). Temperature fluctuations and snow/ice have made avalanche risk high. It is -26 at the cabin today so I am waiting till Monday to break trail. I have found that when it is colder than -10, things like to not work as well (including me)!

Have fun Brrrrraaaaspppping!
 
beeinak said:
Sunrise here won’t be till 1013 and it is 10 below zero here right now. We have had some crazy weather so far this winter and record snow in Anchorage (80” so far). Temperature fluctuations and snow/ice have made avalanche risk high. It is -26 at the cabin today so I am waiting till Monday to break trail. I have found that when it is colder than -10, things like to not work as well (including me)!
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I have a couple good friends who do avalanche forecasting and backcountry heli ski guiding out of Valdez. I think they're going to have their work cut out for them this year, by the sound of things.
 
Smithhammer said:
I have a couple good friends who do avalanche forecasting and backcountry heli ski guiding out of Valdez. I think they're going to have their work cut out for them this year, by the sound of things.
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It is a different world there! You may know of the guide getting caught in an avalanche about 15 yrs ago, and knowing he broke his neck (he heard the crunching but cord intact)? He was first off the chopper and was filmed going down, only to have the slide start and catch him. He had one of the rescue vests on. They couldn’t get to him, so he supported his own neck as best he could after getting on top of the snow and actually skied down farther where rescuers could get to him. Was a true miracle for a true stud of a guide and really nice guy. Full recovery.

Thompson Pass south of Anchorage is notorious for avalanches caused by highmarking snowmachines. They ride as high as possible and cut back, sometimes getting caught. One of my wife’s coworkers got caught in a slide there while skiing- barely survived.

Search and rescue folks, PJ’s, and dogs are frigging awesome!
 
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