| Silock |
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| 06/12/17 12:31 AM |
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1 year post-injury, still no surgery
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Decided against having shoulder surgery, and bought my own home gym in January. Started doing my own rehab and lifting, basically ignoring the doctors. Not usually a good idea. Anyway, I improved my mobility and the "crunchiness" in my shoulder on my own and finally got back to lifting. Hit 245 flat bench today and 190 overhead press. That's a little more than 10% down from where I left off at this time last year. Bench is down more than my overhead press, which is weird. I'm also in a pretty big calorie deficit now, so I'm hoping that once I get back to eating normally, I'll be able to recoup all the losses.
Doesn't look like I'll be doing the surgery at this point in time.
| Design |
| (Post Master Supreme) |
| 06/12/17 12:15 PM |
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Re: 1 year post-injury, still no surgery
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If you can hold off, good for you. I really do consider surgery a last resort.
| WNDYCTYone |
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| 06/12/17 04:04 PM |
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Re: 1 year post-injury, still no surgery
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Fuck, man, that's awesome.
| 98V-TeC |
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| 06/14/17 04:12 PM |
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Re: 1 year post-injury, still no surgery
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What type of injury? Any chance you can share the shoulder strengthening exercises?
| Silock |
| (Post Master Supreme) |
| 06/14/17 07:47 PM |
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Re: 1 year post-injury, still no surgery
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AC joint separation, grade 3-4.
What I did for the shoulder:
Started with close-grip push-ups, slowly getting wider over the weeks. Supplemented with internal and external rotation with bands.
Progressed to TRX push-ups, which forced the shoulder to develop stabilization due to the unstable nature of the TRX straps.
After that, I started in on the free weights. Slowly moved up from just the bar to where I am now.
Hope that helps!
| No Runners |
| (Post Master Sr) |
| 07/23/17 06:16 PM |
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Re: 1 year post-injury, still no surgery
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Do you have a fitness blog or recommended reading?