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Just eat food then.

This. Or buy lactaid, or buy lactase pills.

ssr7: I don't have a car, but it took my roommate 2 hours to get from Gaithersburg, where he works, to our apartment near U Street. That's the reverse commute, mind you. He said Connecticut outbound was a parking lot from Van Ness to the Beltway. Suckers.

Clarence: You're right, my hamstrings are sore. I was gonna guess traps, from all the shrugging. But nope, hamstrings it is.

Time to get some beasts back in here:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScgJJDYeqqg" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScgJJDYeqqg</a>

That doesn't look smart or healthy to me. Stubborn person trying to satisfy her dreams.

I hate marathons.

You gotta know the backstory. She was doing the Ironman (not a marathon) almost as a joke, for a class project during her senior year of college. Did not train in any kind of serious or concentrated way, showed up in Kona and there were all these hardcore people around with specialized bikes and outfits and such. And at some point late in the bike or early in the run, she found herself in the lead. Then, with 400m to go, her body quit on her. But her mind didn't quit. She decided that she was going to finish no matter what happened. She was going to stumble and crawl and shit her pants if she had to (and she does in that video), but she was going to finish. So she did.

It's not smart or healthy. But it shows an insane level of determination and mental strength. Your body can go so much harder than you think. Most of the time, your brain is the limiting factor. I love having that knowledge.

Beast.

BW = 172
SORENESS =  none
ACHES/INJURIES = left hip tweaking a little bit and left toe is bugging
FATIGUE = low
DIET = good

s4: deload-reactive

- RATING (7/10)
no focus

- warmup

- 10 yard dashes x 5 volleyball   no space

- ME jumps (~5-7 x 2)
depth jumps x5,3,3 -- last set was ok

- ME MR double leg bounds: 5 x 5
ME SVJ 2x5 -- kind of hard, hadn't done these in a whiiiiile

- ME MR tuck: 5 x 5

- ME MR pogo: 5 x 5

- S1: dips @ 3 x AF
+23 x10,10,F(10)

- S1: pullups @ 3 x AF
9,9,F(6)

- STRETCH

Kind of a shitty workout. No focus. Fuck Crossfit and volleyball.

In response to a certain journaler's account of a recent ankle tweak, I began to write this semi-coherent rant. And then I decided that it actually applies to a bunch of people around here, including me. So instead of singling out said journaler, here's a new thread:

The most important thing when recovering from a connective tissue injury is to REST THE FUCKING TISSUE THAT GOT INJURED.

Even Andrew "Rest is for pussies" Darqui is resting his toe now, kind of. Tendons and ligaments heal slowly and take time to recover their former strength (if they recover it fully at all) once they're healed. So if you sprain your knee or your ankle or your wrist: Stop playing basketball! Stop shooting jumpers! Stop doing anything that makes you plant on it or rely on it for reactive movements! Slowly reintegrate strengthening and balancing exercises once pain begins to subside! But don't push them too hard too fast!

DO NOT FUCKING RUSH, YOU WILL ONLY FUCK YOURSELF HARDER IN THE LONG TERM.

Trust me, I have years of first-hand experience of rushing back into playing after a sprain. This always, IME, ends with another sprain. You're not a pro athlete, you're not on scholarship somewhere to play sports. You're a recreational athlete. Just like me and almost everyone else on this forum. Therefore, you have absolutely no excuse to rush. And if/when you do rush, and you re-injure yourself, there are only two possible outcomes:

• Your recovery takes even longer than it would have otherwise, or
• You end up injuring yourself badly enough to cause long-term pain/damage.

It may sound a twinge hypocritical of me to say this after such a post, but relax. Let your body heal itself. You can always get back to playing basketball or jumping or sprinting or lifting later. The gym isn't going anywhere, the track isn't going anywhere, the hoop isn't going anywhere.

NOTE TO POTENTIAL HATERS: I'm not saying you should never play hurt, especially when you're in organized competition. You get bruised up? If you even complain about it, you're a pansy. Friction burn? Same thing. Jam your thumb? You'll be fine. But if you have an injury that disables you, like an ankle sprain, you're not being awesome by pushing through it. You're being an idiot.

glad to see you got a scale and are hitting some 

+1 on the chipotle. That can de-rail a workout

De-rail? I know no better fuel (for the money) than Chipotle. If they didn't treat their employees so badly, I would probably say Chipotle is around the level of St. John the Baptist or at the VERY least St. Theresa of Avila on a scale from Stalin to Holy.