I’m not usually one to get giddy over Video Games-to-Movies, but recently I saw a trailer for Ironman. Yeah, Ironman. And though I didn’t really like the video game, I must say that at the least the trailer for the film looks to be quite entertaining.

Not “and the winner for Best Picture is…” kinda good, but entertaining. You know, like any other summer action flick. Except the Fan-suck-tic 4. There’s nothing you can do to make that entertaining short of lighting it on fire. I’d buy popcorn to watch that f*ck of a franchise die.

Oh, and for those of you that don’t know, apple’s movie trailer website’s pretty nice and has lots of stuff to view (even in HD! Yay!). Take a peek here.



Tales from the Gym: I hate you all….
Welll as you may recall from a recent post, I have had issues of recent trying to get my workout on. These troubles stem from the abysmal creation that is olympic dumbell sets that DO NOT lock as advertised. In fact, today doing our legs (me and The Girl), we had another weights falling off the dumbell episode, so I am 110% positive that they suck and it’s not user error. So there!

Anyway, back to my point. Due to our not having any standard weight sets yet – due to our desire to put it against next month’s or the month-after’s budget – I’ve been doing something quite alien to me: Barbell exercises. You know, all that stuff that I never did that all you meatheads do all the time and chastise me for not doing, like regular bench press & shoulder press. Now before I go any further, let me say that my arm is still not 100%. I can’t even do 1 complete pull-up, as it just plain hurts too much right now. I haven’t worked out regularly since August 9th (I got un-lazy and looked up the date I did it. Yes, I keep track…), and this week marks my first full week back into some sort of routine.

Having gotten that out of the way, let me be honest enough to say that man-o-man, am I freaking weak. Yikes, I have been scary weak. I know that quite a bit of my bench press weakness is due to the fact that I haven’t lifted more than my – Well, uh… my shoes. Yeah, shoes – in more than a month, and even more of my weakness has to do with the fact that I haven’t done actual bench press since sometime around Moses’ parting of the sea. But still, some of it has to be just plain weakness. I’m weak. I– I haven’t managed to even put up my own body weight more than 3-4 times without fear of severe head trauma. And I have spotter bars.

So for all you that knew I was probably pretty weak? F-you man, F-you. I hate you all.



The Healing powers of large inanimate objects
After a month & a half of rest to help my forearm along, I decided to start lifting weight with it gently. Yeah, I didn’t do any workouts for that time. It was a bad injury, it really was, and I’m just beginning to realize that myself, exactly how bad it was. But like I was saying, light weightlifting with it. Mostly to gauge where I was in the process of becoming complete again. I didn’t like what I saw, but I did like how I started to feel. It hurt pretty bad at first, but I pushed through it and the next thing I know, it’s starting to feel better a few sets in.

This is the 4th time I’ve had an injury to my forearm. This is only the second time that it’s been workout-related, so cool your jets on that. Once was just a re-injury of a damaged forearm due to some jackass at work not knowing how to carry large objects in tandem while communicating. But I digress. This time and the time just before it (as I was healing from the injury sustained by dumbass. But I digress…), I went back to the gym before the arm felt like it was 100%, and both times it was because I got to the point where it was like it’s never going to be 100% again, I need to learn to deal with it like it is. So I end up pushing weight, and lo-and-behold, my arm starts to get better. I am not sure exactly why as I’m not omnipotent, but I have a theory as to why lifting weights causes my injuries to heal.

Specifically, I think that it’s simply my body having to deal with the stress of it. It’s the same principles of weightlifting itself: the body will only grow as a response to stimulus. So I’m providing stimulus to the area, making it stretch and bend and go through motions, and as such my body compensates and begins to adapt. What’s more, I think that there’s added assistance being thrown into the mix by increased blood flow and thus increased nutrient availability to the damaged tissues.

So basically what I’m saying is, once you’ve rested your injury for a length of time, if you really want it to get better, you need to begin to push it slowly. Ankle still sore after 5 weeks? Start running lightly. Push through the minor annoying pains. It’ll force your body to adapt, and adapt it will! This is the second time that I’ve worked it out for my forearm, and I must tell you that I’ve done it before for a knee that I never thought would be right again, after 3 months of rest and compress.

When in doubt, lift it out. That’s my new motto.

Peace.

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