The year of the Comeback!

[JB_rD81]

I didn’t squat last night and my knees are killing me… it probably doesn’t help that I’ve been walking on concrete and gravel in work boots for the last 16 years. Maybe I need insoles?

 

[Poppy]

I spent 20 years on my feet and the next 10 probably close to 50/50.

I did not like the “gel” insoles. I believe i ended up with the dr scholes(sp) brand and two sets of steel toes. Rotating them out every couple weeks helped me.

 

[Poppy]

I was just cracking myself up. I always had it in my head that thicker industrial concrete was harder than an average driveway. Our plants shop floor was two foot thick and 50+ years old.

You’ve probably been standing on the same stuff and gravel just sucks no matter what.

 

[JB_rD81]

It’s terrible. I definitely need to look into a set of insoles. It doesn’t help that I have very high arches and most work boots (slip ons especially) aren’t made for my feet…

 

[Bigmurph6]

So check out sketchers there not work boots but they have work shoes that are durable. They are the most comfortable shoe ive ever worked or walked in

 

[Poppy]

That’s was one of mine in the rotation. Wifes also when she had to wear steel toes.

I agree…very comfortable.

 

[Bigmurph6]

I was surprised that they lasted and were durable because shoes never last long in my work

 

[Poppy]

If I remember correctly the safety toe in mine was composite which lightened them up considerably. Still rated too

 

[Bigmurph6]

I didn’t know that they even made a safety toe version. That’s actually cool especially if its required.

 

[Poppy]

Yes sir. Like you said very durable light and comfortable

 

[JLee]

I’ll definitely be checking that out. My back kills after an hour at work (concrete floor and work boots). I can hike for hours with a backpack full of crap and don’t have problems like I do at work

 

[JB_rD81]

Squats/Bench/Pin squats today… I made it through squats, by my 3rd set of 4 my knees were destroyed. I’m not sure what the hell is going on, but I need to take a step back and figure some things out. I was talking with my buddy who owns the gym, and I may step away from barbell squats for a while… there are other things I can do that will carry over to deadlift strength, and be less destructive to my knees… add in that I had a funny twinge in my prosthetic hip and it made for a pretty shitty workout. Needless to say, there were no pin squats.
Bench went well, my shoulder/bicep felt good enough to allow me to bench with my pinkies on the rings, and I was able to pause every rep. Tomorrow I’ve got to deadlift, so little recovery time for my knees and we’ll be back at it… I do think with lowering my test back down to 200 mg/wk of Cyp, I’m going to throw in 50 mg EOD NPP just to help with joint health for a while.

 

[JB_rD81]

Well, I ended up missing my Sunday deadlift session due to my knees. I could barely walk let alone think about trying to bench and deadlift, so I relaxed, took a step back and assessed things. I’m going to do a total reboot on my leg work other than deadlift and deadlift assistance… and by reboot I mean start completely over. I will probably utilize a lot of body weight and stability exercises as far as squats go, and start to add in some very light single leg extensions and curls with slow eccentric contractions to assist in elongation of tendons. I’ve had to do this before, several years ago I injured my SI facet joints and basically had to re learn how to squat after recovering from that, so this isn’t new territory to me, it’s just a little different this time as I’m dealing with a prosthetic joint and weak knees from a few years of dealing with hip injury.

Just a bump in the road. Tonight, Bench and Deadlift for sure, as far as the squats I’m supposed to do, I’ll figure something out

 

[Poppy]

Being on your feet all day probably doesn’t help… do you gotta do a lot of get up and downs, climbing etc?

 

[JB_rD81]

Oh yeah, ladders, stairs, and back and forth on foot in some pretty big plants. I used to do Boiler and Pressure Vessel code welding for one of our Union shops at a Bridgestone plant… it was a 20 min walk from south end to the north end of the plant. I spend a lot of my time now in a Barilla plant, it’s a 10 min walk from end to end and I’m constantly going back and forth

 

[Dirtnasty]

I get you not that I’m of nandro I can tell I was getting the joint benefit. Didn’t notice change coho I g on but now off I can feel difference

 

[JB_rD81]

It really helps. I’ll be adding it back in probably as early as next week.

 

[Poppy]

I’m the last person that knows anything about deadlifts but I was wondering if you could just prehab/rehab your knees and train your deadlift?

 

[Rusty]

A good friend taught me a good way to train for dead’s. Take 135 with good form bring it half way up to your knee and hold five seconds then half way above the knee hold five seconds then all the way up hold five seconds then go back down. Don’t let it touch the floor and keep back straight and shoulders high and tight and repeat until you loose good form then that is a set. I did that this past summer and increased my dead by 150 in one month cause my grip and back and shoulders could handle it. You are on a whole different level then I am but maybe that’ll help. Dunno if you can even use light weight or not. Edit. Not one month one summer!

 

[herrubermensch]

Similar to doing RDLs to build DL capability and form. Works well.