People have recommended me to do Yoga for some of my lingering pains in the kneecap a while back , then again it’s just breathing technique combined with stretching.
I haven’t followed their advice (due to various unrelated reasons) but just throwing it out there.
Happy to pick that up down the line but right now the advice I have is to stretch the lower back and target the upper ITB area and hamstrings with balls rollers.
I tried some standard leg stretches last week and was in agony afterwards. It seriously aggregated the area.
Thing about Yoga is that it starts off slow and you can probably feel your way back to how comfortable you are with your muscles. I try to incorporate some of those routines that as much as possible before / after runs. It’s not the quasi-religious aspect of it (in india) as much as it’s the slow actions that make it repeatable.
Got stuck in monsoon rains while out for a run. This does put a dampener on things , wonder how you lot balance it put with continouous rains and all…
Have to probably start looking at alternate things to do during this time.
Kettlebells. Have mentioned that before, but those little inexpensive things are the best investment I’ve ever made for my fitness. Got rid of my lower back problems and doubles as cardio.
I dont think you’re going to heal it with Cardio. It’s too difficult to load it at the right level and progress the loading. Those Barbell Medicine articles I pointed you to a few weeks ago provide a really good template for how to approach the situation with strengthening exercises and run through several different forms of hip pain to provide more specificity on how to apply the process to each of them.
I think in the absence of being able to identify what activity/movement it was that set this off, you’ll have to drastically cut back on all forms of cardio and then add it back in slowly being careful to pay attention to how it makes you feel afterwards. In the mean time you’ll focus on the strengthening for a bit. Note, the goal isnt necessarily to get stronger, but to allow the process of progressing on the exercises you choose to make the tissues heal.
Understood and thank you.
It was what I thought was a hamstring strain that kicked it off. I was doing some work in the house and was getting up and down lots on top of twisting into some awkward positions. It’s progressed from there. This also happened as I was recovering from Covid.
I dont think its a covid related injury. Just gutfeel
Certainly an inflammation problem which is why I added it. The original injury wasn’t, I agree. Straight up overload type injury.
covid while it is different for different people and i can only talk about my experience as such , almost entirely has to do with cardio and related muscles in the upper body…
that said , can’t rule out any other things as the science of what covid does affect and what it doesnt is very limited.
Just had a 18km run in 1hr 25 min. Me thinks its time to further revise my half marathon time to 1hr 40.
Either way, the half marathon is in mid september.
Got round to knocking out a half marathon distance at the weekend. 95% off road, mainly on canal towpaths with varying definitions as to what constitutes a path, from tarmac bits, to loose gravel to basically the dried muddy bit where grass no longer grows.
Took me 2 hours and 13 to get it done and I was absolutely cooked afterwards. Not going to lie, was hoping for close to 2 hours, if not a smidge under but pacing was again a problem. First few miles are too quick and the last three or four are more than two minutes a mile slower than the early ones. Still, just happy to get that distance under my belt for now and have a target to aim for.
One of my struggles is hydration. I don’t have a convenient way to carry fluids so I’m planning routes where I go one direction for a bit, turn round, come back past my car to grab some water and then head off the other way for a bit before turning back again. I’ve now ordered a running belt and a running vest that hold a couple of those flexible bottles and i’ll see which I get on best with.
I’m destroying the nails on the second toe of both feet too but think that’s just the increased volume and the dodgy form as my energy levels drop later on in longer runs.
I generally don’t have a problem with runs upto 1:30. The advantage I have w.r.t you guys is that I’m fucking in the center of Deccan plateau… So I don’t have changes of incline.
It could be over compensation to the extent of falling over. If it works for you then so be it…
First run since what feels like before 10AD. The hip has been loosening up this last week after various sessions of grinding the roller and some random stretches throughout the day at work.
Nothing special, more a case of getting moving again. Little trots, stretching, walking, jog etc. Aerobically I’m back in the gutter.
Was a shit day running just that my so called new shoe of newbalance gave up on me … As in totally got fucked over …
3 months old shoes gradually being primed to replace the old fucked nike lunarglide… And then I daresay the lunarglide is still good for another 1 month.
The Carnivore Diet
Tried this for a week - nothing but meat and animal products.
Dropped 2.5 kg in a week.
The downside is that the eruptions are on a Vesuvian scale and it does get a bit boring. I was craving broccoli by the end of the week.
I was not hungry for the entire week though.
I’ve taken a quick look into it in the past, but my problem is I love a stirfry with rice and pasta too much to give them up,
I think Jordan Peterson and his daughter were on this diet. I don’t think it turned out well for him in the end but don’t quote me on that.
Something to look into perhaps.
That diet is simply a non starter for me.
The carnivore diet followers have been seduced into a cult.