Thursday, 8 July 2010

Z-Health
Ankle Tilts / Ankle Pulls / 6 position Ankle Circles / Knee Circles / 6 position Hip-Leg Circles

Naked TGUs 5 e/s - bit of a twinge in the right shoulder but finished off feeling better than I started

1 Arm Swings - 8/12 secs for 30 rounds @ 16kgs
(150 total in 10 mins)

Food Intake:
5 Eggs ( 1 yoke)
2 cups Stir fry veg
1/2 cup of oatmeal
1 cup skimmed milk
3 fish oil capsules
Green Tea

155g Chicken
2 medium potatoes (wedges)
2 cups Broccoli
Salad cream

155g Chicken
2 Tortillas
Peppers
Salad cream

Got something to blog about again. I was "on a break" for the last few weeks while I tried to let my painful shoulder heal. In an interview I heard with Eric Cobb he talked about how with shoulder problems in z-health they focus on the Feet & Ankles / Hips/ Thoracic / Hands in that order. So I dug out the DVD and focused on doing only those exercises and with more control, looking for dead spaces and problems. I spent a week doing only feet and ankles and that seemed to help a bit and then I added in hip mobility and either the exercises or time to heal has reduced the pain a lot.

So tonight I had a go with some light KB practice to see how it would get on. It seems OK, but I'd like to take it slow and steady. I thought i was going really well before it flared up.

Sunday, 4 July 2010

Sunday weigh in:

191.6lbs @ 28.5% on tanita scales / 24.4% accumeasure calipers

Massive weight loss of 3.4lbs for the week. Trouble is that all indications are that it comes from muscle. I haven't documented what I did this week as I forgot until thursday when I couldn't remember everything I ate. I have however ticked all the boxes nutritionally over 7 days for 100% compliance. I also walked when I wasn't working and did z health drills for my feet and ankles only on 5 days.

It's been pretty much business as usual without any training to help my shoulder mend (z health drills have helped). It seems that it was a large part of the reason I was hanging onto my muscle though. I'm planning on going easy on the shoulder for at least another week so I might have to find something I can do to stop the muscle loss. Squats of some description prehaps?