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Mohamed F. El-Hewie
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 Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 9:06 pm Post subject: Drop Squat |
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Hot, humid, and smothering day. Every one snuggled under the air conditioner. Deadly day for obese people, I could tell waiting for an chubby FedEx woman to finish my order.
The two sinister features of osteoarthritis:
stiffness after sitting and
noisy joints.
Neither one is assuring.
Getting to the Union City gym at 7:30 pm, I could feel that my knees, despite getting better, were stiff and edgy. Swelling is minimal.
Decided on calisthenics alone but changed my mind later.
100 Goodmorning
200 lateral arm full swing, on each side.
300 push up split over 8 sets, incomplete, deep, some on dumbbells,
200 arm raises with 12 lb dumbbells
20 deep leg split on each side
40 deep squat various feet stand
20 chin ups on isometric suspension split over 5 sets
200 spinal twist with extended arms
The drop squat felt strangely healing. I was very painful to get the knees to bend below 90 degrees and stay there for few deep and long breaths. But soon it made the deep drop squat possible, which meant, the pain and hesitation are trivially minimal.
Back Squat: 60 kg x 2 sets x 4, 80 kg x 1 x 3, 100 kg x 4 sets x 3, 120 kg x 3 sets x 2.
Regaining the squat to parallel with 120 kg gave me a sense of great euphoria. Finally, the quadriceps gave up the pain and the stretch reflex functioned smoothly. It was unexpected for me to opt to that plan. With the terrible heat and my soaked shirts, I wanted to stay away from the weight. The calisthenics did me good.
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sjaak smorenburg
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| Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 1:46 pm Post subject: |
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Cool workout! (no weather pun intended).
Did you eat after the workout, or a light meal beforehand?
| Quote: | 100 Goodmorning
200 lateral arm full swing, on each side.
300 push up split over 8 sets, incomplete, deep, some on dumbbells,
200 arm raises with 12 lb dumbbells
20 deep leg split on each side
40 deep squat various feet stand
20 chin ups on isometric suspension split over 5 sets
200 spinal twist with extended arms |
Wow, good stuff!
| Quote: | | The drop squat felt strangely healing. I was very painful to get the knees to bend below 90 degrees and stay there for few deep and long breaths. But soon it made the deep drop squat possible, which meant, the pain and hesitation are trivially minimal. |
That is surely a sign of advancement in healing?
I do not see the drop squat clearly in my mind, could you describe it?
| Quote: | | Back Squat: 60 kg x 2 sets x 4, 80 kg x 1 x 3, 100 kg x 4 sets x 3, 120 kg x 3 sets x 2. |
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Mohamed F. El-Hewie
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| sjaak smorenburg wrote: |
Did you eat after the workout, or a light meal beforehand?
I do not see the drop squat clearly in my mind, could you describe it?
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I had one pound of carrot and bag of nuts all day plus two 44 oz diet Coke. It was too hot to desire food. After workout, I was really hungry. I had a cheese sandwich and tea with milk. Both vanished in my empty guts.
The drop squat is the clasp-knife technique where you drop freely squatting and break abruptly when the hips sink at the bottom. It differs from controlled squat in that you shut off the quadriceps completely and act as a free falling object. Then you fire the quadriceps abruptly to hold you in the fully squatted position. That is similar to snapping a clasp knife and relying on the metal stop to prevent the blade from going further beyond the stop. You cannot do that if your pain is crippling your mind. So you must stretch and stretch until the muscle act as an elastic spring, not a plastic one. The later is an unconditioned or atrophied muscle.
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sjaak smorenburg
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Thanks for the explanation; That movement approaches my Squat Jumps, as I call and do them. The "Clasp Knife" is done on the final rep, the preceding reps are full squats with instant ascent from the bottom and final push upwards when the thighs are parallel to the floor, jumping up.
I like your casual approach to eating. Not meaning careless.
SOAP: (Subjective/ Objective/ Assessment/ Plan of managment) From a previous post.
Could you shed some light when you have time?
- How does it work exactly; it looks like a very useful tool.
- I'm intrigued to learn to sort the subjective from the objective in this case.
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Mohamed F. El-Hewie
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| sjaak smorenburg wrote: |
SOAP: (Subjective/ Objective/ Assessment/ Plan of managment) From a previous post.
Could you shed some light when you have time?
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I did not ignore that question. My intention was to rearrange the Central Disc Prolapse article into SOAP format, which I will do soon. The concept is not new, but is its a documentary of evidence such that facts remain recorded as accurate as when those facts came to exist.
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sjaak smorenburg
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Thanks very much.
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| sjaak smorenburg wrote: | I like your casual approach to eating. Not meaning careless.
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One of my legal opponents died on January 22, 2010. He weighed 600 lb when I put him on the stand in an administrative trial on March 19, 2007. He would stop every morning by ShopRite and buy two bags of Bagels with cream and feed all his peers, many of whom graduated from the most prestigious school in USA. I took Holbrook to a top class gym in 2005 when he weighed 400 lb and I promised him to get the 200 lb down before the angels of death get to him. One of his long time associates, confided to me that, Holbrook drinks daily a whole bottle of vodka and never sleeps. When I get to Holbrook home, he sits on his coach all night long with the TV on, while his downstairs neighbor expecting him to die any moment. In 2005, while visiting Holbrook, his neighbor was not informed with my visit, she thought that he already passed away.
Another fellow, who lives all his life gambling, once commented on my carrot, banana and apple diet by saying that: only monkeys eat carrots. When I suggested to him to visit Europe or the Middle East, he stated that he would not go anywhere unless they have horse races.
Any way you look at it, doing what we believe never hurt.
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sjaak smorenburg
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| Quote: | | Any way you look at it, doing what we believe never hurt. |
My sentiments exactly.
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