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lifting_heavy_things2012-03-03 11:05 pm
untonuggan) wrote in lifting_heavy_things2012-03-03 11:05 pm
Push-up level-up!
I've been in physical therapy for the past two months or so and I've finally graduated with the clearance to do more exercises as long as I build up to them slowly. But that's not the exciting part.
The exciting part is that today I switched from doing wall push-ups (or push-ups against a table) to doing push-ups on the floor on my knees. I managed seven (7!), so I did the rest of my usual set using the wall.
This is especially exciting because I couldn't have done that before physical therapy, either. The injury is not a weight-lifting one, more of a chronic pain type thing that has pushed me into doing strength training. (One of its few benefits, I suppose.)
I'm also excited that at least right now my pecs aren't sore, because when I started doing push-ups on the wall I realllly felt it in my pecs. So that means that they have come a long way! (I am feeling my traps, though, but I think that was from some of the other exercises I was doing.)
I'm hoping that soon I'll be able to *gradually* work my way up from the pink and purple rehab weights to some of the bigger ones that aren't coated in plastic. I am going to do it slowly, though, so I don't end up back in physical therapy.
The exciting part is that today I switched from doing wall push-ups (or push-ups against a table) to doing push-ups on the floor on my knees. I managed seven (7!), so I did the rest of my usual set using the wall.
This is especially exciting because I couldn't have done that before physical therapy, either. The injury is not a weight-lifting one, more of a chronic pain type thing that has pushed me into doing strength training. (One of its few benefits, I suppose.)
I'm also excited that at least right now my pecs aren't sore, because when I started doing push-ups on the wall I realllly felt it in my pecs. So that means that they have come a long way! (I am feeling my traps, though, but I think that was from some of the other exercises I was doing.)
I'm hoping that soon I'll be able to *gradually* work my way up from the pink and purple rehab weights to some of the bigger ones that aren't coated in plastic. I am going to do it slowly, though, so I don't end up back in physical therapy.
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