Jan 27 Push pull day - Challenge completed
That's a pushmi pullyu of Dr Doolittle fame :) source
Jan 27 Push pull day
Warmup
10 minutes Indian club swinging
Commando rocking
FTW squats
12 pullups
20kg kettlebell C&P 12R, 12L
Training (Fat bar pullups today)
Pullups bodyweight @ 81kg +20kg - 8 reps
24 kg Kettlebell C&P 8R, 8L
Pullups bodyweight + 28kg 6 reps
28kg kettlebell C&P 5R, 5L
Pullups bodyweight + 44kg - 3 reps
FTW HSPU on parallettes -5 reps
Chinup bodyweight + 52kg 1 rep
FTW HSPU on parallettes - 3 reps + 1 tiger bend
Pulley assisted one arm chinups 8 kg counterbalance - 2R, 2L
FTW HSPU on parallettes - 1 rep + 1 tiger bend
Pulley assisted one am chinips 8 kg counterbalance - 2R, 1L I failed the last rep
Cooldown
Pullups bodyweight + 16kg - 8 reps
24kg Kettlebell C&P 7R, 7L
Joint circling
stretching
Teacups
Notes
I woke up this morning and I could barely walk, my dodgy knee just didn't want to get going today. So instead of doing an hour of mobility work - stretching, foam rolling and soft tissue work like it normally takes me to get it moving well enough to walk it took well over two hours. It's starting to look like I'll need a TKR sooner rather than later.
On a different note I weighed myself this morning and I've lost over 2 kg without changing my diet or making any major changes to my training. The overnight minimum temp in my house hasn't fallen below 32 deg C, so maybe I've just lost a lot of fluid. My body fat scales say I've lost a bit of fat but those things are notoriously inaccurate, maybe I've lost a bit of fat and a bit of water.
I rigged up a pulley so I can get a good gauge of my progress on the OAC. I can do them with either arm using a 8 kg counterweight and possibly could have gone a bit lighter on my right arm, so hopefully I'll get a full OAC some time in the next few months
Love the picture @khufu lol
Is surgery an option to replace the cartilage you're missing? Might be a long recovery, but might also increase your future mobility and comfort.
I'm not sure if I counted right, but I recorded at least 120 reps. I'll tack this on the block post from the past challenge so it's included in my upcoming post shortly.
I've had way too much surgery on that knee already - unsuccessful every time too. The worst case was a simple flipped meniscus where my knee was locked at roughly 20 degrees flexion because the cartilage had popped out and flipped over locking the joint. The registrar (quack) decided he had to force my leg to straighten it and mashed the last piece of meniscus I had left.
So I recovered from that and was up walking again in about three weeks while I waited for chance to get that knee reconstructed, they didn't do any real investigation and just thought I had a torn ACL and a minor meniscus tear.
When I woke up after the operation they handed the remnants of my cartilage to me in a specimen jar and told me they'd sucked the rest out with an arthroscope.
When they handed the jar to me they told me they didn't think I'd ever walk again because every ligament & 3 hamstring tendons were completely severed. It was supposed to be a physical impossibility to walk without all those ligaments and tendons.
I wasn't very impressed as I'd walked into the hospital expecting to get the knee reconstructed and woke up to that news. I told him to get F'd and went on a rant that made Ned Kelly's Jerilderie letter look like a polite well mannered dear Jane letter & then I got up and walked out. It was the most painful thing I've ever done in my life but I wasn't going to let that butcher condemn me to a wheelchair.
That was over twenty years ago and it's deteriorated a lot since then and almost all the articular cartilage is now gone too. So it's bone on bone now and it's just a matter of time before I won't be able to walk.
That's why you won't see any squats or deadlifts in my training log. The pullups and gymnastics are all I can do most of the time & I can't do that all the time either because I have a few completely mashed disks in my lower back and a vertebra that just decides to break several times a year. That's another story about medical incompetence altogether, so I won't go into that now.
& I did count those reps today but I got distracted by my kids when I was posting, so 120 reps will do.
I know it was well over 100 so that's all that matters.