Tuesday, February 15, 2011, Check-In

[muck_a_luck]

Hey, EED community!

Here is your daily check-in post! Hope everyone is having a great day!

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Comments

[watersword]

30 pushups.

[alphaviolet]

Congrats.

[willful_zephyr]

Body weight exercises, followed by soft-tissue work. Got a foam roller and a soft-ball on the way to work. Went to town on my TFL's on-down.

Sore, but can stretch more, now. Did some warrior's and could feel the wrap under my leg for the first time in months.

[rydra_wong]

Yay foam roller! It is a mighty tool.

[willful_zephyr]

Hey, do you know how often I "should" do the rolling? I can't find any consensus online.

[rydra_wong]

No idea, alas (my problem has always been forgetting to do it, rather than risking overdoing it).

Entirely off the top of my head, I'd say: it's working with the fascia, and potentially doing very deep massage -- not totally dissimilar to something like Rolfing.

Ergo, give it at least a day or so after a session to begin with, to see how your body's reacting, and to see how it changes things in yoga and other activities -- if you've got more range of motion all of a sudden, you need to adjust to that before you pile the next changes on top. Not leaving time for your brain to catch up with changes in your body can be a set-up for injury.

But once you've got the feel of it and you've adjusted a bit and know how your body tends to react to it, you could try it more then.

Anyway. That's me speaking as a completely unqualified individual, and just what I'd be inclined to go with for something like this.

[willful_zephyr]

That matches my gut feelings on it. I'd read some suggesting doing it 12 times a day, so I wasn't sure if my gut was out of line.

[rydra_wong]

Evidently our guts are in sync. Which sounds deeply disturbing, now I think about it ...

Just to add: occasionally, doing stuff to the fascia can trigger odd emotional reactions. Worth knowing about just so you don't get alarmed in the unlikely event that it happens; just wait and it'll settle down.

[willful_zephyr]

LOL! The new Olympic Sport.

Oh my...

Thanks for the heads up. I do enough hip-work that I'm in a pretty good place, now. Have had my share of weeping in class in the past, though.

[rydra_wong]

Yeah, exactly. The fascia seem to be like the deep hip tissues: stuff gets stored there.

Plus there's the whole thing of having to work with/breathe into deep sensation, which can bring up things all by itself.

[willful_zephyr]

Oh yes, I was quite wrung out afterwards.

[natmerc]

Just been trying one out the last bit. Only doing it every few days, but it seems to be releasing some muscle fibers bound up after a hamstring pull so I'm keeping at it.

[willful_zephyr]

That's what I'm hoping for. I started going to the gym last year, so I think this is just bound up fascia from building up my quads.

[rydra_wong]

TWO HOURS CLIMBING. Just traversing (going along sideways, minimal distance across the ground, so no falling and no impact), but if anything it made my back feel better; I had more range of motion afterwards.

And new traverses have just gone up, and the hard one looks like it's going to be an awesome project for me, so basically I can live in the traverse corridor until my back's okay and I can fall off things again.

Then 40 minutes of cautious yoga later.

[willful_zephyr]

Nice - so the back has settled down?

[rydra_wong]

Much improved; I applied some yoga skills -- and some tennis balls -- to convince the muscles to de-spasm a fair amount. It's still cranky with getting up from sitting, and walking any distance (or anything else that jars it), which is why falling is not on the agenda right now.

[natmerc]

Yay! Climbing!

I wish I lived in a city with a wall or two. I really liked it the couple times I tried it.

[lyorn]

NRoLfW, phase 1 workout A3.

First time to go down with repetitions for the not-bodyweight exercises. I loaded the barbell with shocking 5 extra kilos. :-)

[just_ann_now]

"Strength and Balance" from Power Yoga for Every Body, 'cause I knew there was Bakasana work in that set. I'm getting there, slowly but steadily.

[natmerc]

Another 40 min tramping in the snow after yet another snowstorm. More shoveling last night and a bit today and lots more tomorrow. What a winter.

Just ate so I'll give it at least an hour, but then a bit of yoga to relax before bed.

[smackshack]

Warm weather! Walked to CrossFit, CrossFat, and walked home. Hang power snatch, push press, box jumps. Butterfly situps.

[semielliptical]

Yoga first thing in the morning. Probably only 20 minutes, I was not awake enough to do much, or to note the time.

[alexseanchai]

Square dancing as the wrong gender is a serious mindfuck.

[zennish]

Crossfit!

[alphaviolet]

1-hr dance class.