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Won't have time to write detailed journal entries this week, but I thought I'd mention this...

My friend Scott (the crazy buff one that does throwing events in track) sent me a text during my track workout that read, "Guess who's in the emergency room "

That smiley face was sarcastic. He tore his right anterior deltoid doing dumbbell bench press with 100lb. db's. He was on his 12th rep....

EDIT: Ignore the scar on the top left of the picture. That's from burning my arm when I was much younger. (15 months old)
         That's not the problem area.

Okay, so I haven't posted on here in a while. I have however been doing my indoor track workouts. Stayed off the heavy lifting until I could find out for sure what was up with my arm. This week track has been really slow. Mostly hurdle form and running form stuff to try to get the new people to run with high knees and flexed toes. I'll be getting a schedule next we so we can rework my lifting routine.

So on to the more important stuff... today I found out what really happened. Medical anatomy teacher (also the school's trainer) explained what happened. What I have isn't really a bruise and my vein didn't really get punctured. Considering the abnormal pain I felt with the needle first entering, I think the needle did go through. But that shouldn't be enough to keep me bruised that long. If I remember the explanation right, what happens is while the nurse removed the needle she made a mistake in the way she cut off the blood flow to the vials they use for testing, or did it out of order or something, and the blood in the tube "backfed" into my arm. It was too much for the veins to keep up with so it pooled. Rapid change in blood pressure explains why it's the only time I've ever felt like I was about to black out. There's really nothing to do about it. It seemed to get worse at first because the blood that backfed and pooled has to dissipate in my arm.

So yeah... I'm set to go and apparently it'll still take about two weeks until it looks 100% normal again. I can do all my normal exercises already. The dissipation also explains why my light runs and workouts during this first week of indoor have only made it feel better. Even though heavy stuff feels uncomfortable right now, the bloodflow from the lighter aerobic stuff is just helping it dissipate faster. Kind of awesome, but the blood pooling still looks pretty gross.

I can do 4x5 on DB press with 60's. If 50's aren't easy for you something is very wrong...

Didn't get a chance to fill this out yesterday, so here it is.

Wednesday 12/1/2010:

-Warmup
-5x10 yard sprints.
-Single leg bounds: 5x5

Sprint accellerations. (indoors. One lap ~ 120m
-1 lap jog
-1 lap 70% (fast-ish run)
-1 lap 400m pace. (actually slightly faster)
-1 lap walk
-Repeat.

-Bench Press: 3x5 w/125 lbs. (explained below)
-One armed dumbbell row: 4x5 w/45 lbs.
-Cooldown/stretch
-PWO shake

So that bruise from after donating blood... it didn't feel to good after my sprints. I kept bench in but I went up until just short of locking out my arms on any of the reps because it was too uncomfortable. Had to skip pullups/dips because the griping was becoming painful.

Showed my coach today and told him what happened. He said he already wanted me off anything the next couple days before indoor starts, but that was one more reason I should just chill out until indoor starts. Says he wanted me fresh and fully recovered to hit it hard Monday.

Being in the military for a long time, he's done IV's and other injection type things for friends. He gave me two possible explanations, of which the first sounds more likely since it was when I had the most pain... either they went to far and puncture through the other side of my artery when the needle went in, or on the way out the needle scraped the bottom of it and cut it open. Either way, it's probably arterial puncture. He said the veins really aren't that hard to break, they're pretty tough... but not that tough.

So basically I'm out until Monday... FFFFUUUUUUUUU...... I told myself nothing was gonna slow down my training this year like my shoulder did last season. Hopefully it doesn't get any worse. I'll try icing some more. I can only hope it's at least mostly healed by Monday. (I'll also try not to do anything stupid to make it worse.  )

Thats "Story Of The Year" and the song is "Our Time Is Now"

Thanks. I may download some of their stuff and use it in the gymn if I like it enough. Sounds pretty good so far. Might be a good time to try my 14 day Zune pass. That way I get to listen everything (legally) before deciding whether or not I want to buy any of their music.

I'm diggin' the video title.  Good stuff. That's kinda where I wanna be at. Anything above double plate for reps would be nice at my weight. haha.