So I decided to get back into shape..

[Rbacchiega]

y'know, healthier eating, trying to quit smoking (again) cutting back on the parties and going to the gym and getting back into the routine like when I used to play baseball/soccer.

Started off nice and easy, going for jogs, doing light circut training at the gym etc. and was starting to feel pretty damned good.

Well, I just got home from the hospital. I've re-agrivated / partially separated my shoulder and am in one of those fancy schmancy slings (typing with one hand!)

Now, I've already had two operations on my shoulder, and need to get another one, so this might be a good thing in that it should bump me up on the list (I mean really, I was on the machine where all you do is pedal your arms...and I wasn't going fast or using much resistance) but it's definately bad in that I'm out of commisssion for a week at least. Can't tattoo with only one arm and can't do much else either.

I think I might go crazy in this house.

[christyf5]

oh jeez, I should have let you start your nano yesterday instead :neutral:

[Skimmerking]

you can still eat low fat and high fibre foods and use the stationary bike 10-20 km per day.

heck my workouts are 5 miles for a run, 15 miles on the bike , and then i work out with weights

[Rbacchiega]

:hurt:yeah Christy...I blame YOU

Mike, I'll start doing light training again tomorrow. Right now I'm frankly hoped up on some Percaset and don't feel like doing much :D

When I was big into soccer I'd run 5km every day before practice (two a days) so essentially was running 10km a day... not to mention the weight training etc. Man I was in good shape LOL.

A little bump in the rode, but I'm going to do this for real this time. My butt is HUGE

[christyf5]

oh well I don't feel so bad if you have percocet :razz:

[Parker]

Sounds like me... My wife signed us up for Survivor Bootcamp and last night was the first night.

I can hardly walk today! 220 lb guys can't run 2km on the first day, how do you think I got to be 220 lbs. Not by running!

[my2rotties]

Before we moved to Bragg Creek, I was a Can fit pro trainer and was going for my Body Pump certification... now I have no gym close by, and my hiking trails are under water. With the brutal cold and crap weather I have been putting on some pounds. I eat clean anyways, but I have always had to work very hard to stay within reasonable shape. Genetics suck sometimes.

I have a myriad of auto immune issues that have come out of remission, and the lack of work I have been suffering is adding to the pile of things to try not to be depressed about. With being out of work, I figured I would do some serious hiking but with the trails in the condition they are in, I often have to turn back with the dogs.

I miss the gym, I miss the sun, and I miss feeling well. I have loads of work to do outside and construction garbage to remove, but with the never ending snow... I cannot get it to the trailer and to the land fill.

It sucks when busy and fit people hit a rut in the road... however we will get through it. Perhaps if the sun would shine again someday, we might be feeling a little more positive.

[Delphinus]

Sorry to hear about the shoulder Randi. As a fellow broken shoulder person thingy, you have my sympathies/empathies.

I can't do running. I've tried running for several years and each time couldn't escape the conclusion that I just hate it. I used to love it when I was younger, I ran track at school and did moderately OK at a few events, and ran through university. Nowadays though I'm like .. bleh, this sucks. And it doesn't matter how gingerly I treat my knees, my knees hate me these days. When I first went onto this "I'm going to start running again!" kick a few years back, I got arthritis in my knees (combination of shoes, technique, surface choices and well .. 200lbs or so). My older brother, 14 years my senior, who still loves running was all "Well DUH. Maybe you should try losing some weight before you start running." Uhhhhhhhh wow, thanks a lot you JERK. Yeah I'm running for the fun of it, not because I'm trying to .. you know .. LOSE SOME WEIGHT. SHEESH! Runners! They're all cooked in the head, I swear.

I like my bikes these days.

Never was good at any kind of team sport (surprise surprise). I made my dad so proud as a 7 year old when he was assistant coach of the team and me and a bunch of other fellow nerds in training found the sand for the long jump and were playing in the sand rather than chase the ball up and down the field.

Yep, I like biking though.

[my2rotties]

I was training for running... hated it. I ended up with runner knees and I swear to gawd I had glass shards instead of cartilage!!! Yet I was determined to keep going and it stopped hurting once endorphins kicked in... my gawd was I ever stupid.

I hate running... something very big and very scary better be coming afetr me to make me run... so far nothing out in Bragg has made me feel the need to flee yet. I would lvoe to get a mountain bike since there are some killer trails here that most people don't really know about. However like anything a bike will cost a lot of money which I just do not have right now.

I really fell into a hole this winter and I have felt like garbage so long, I don't recall what feeling good was like.

I look out my window and it just keeps snowing and snowing out here... I will make myself go out there, but cannot really go as far as I would like. Most spots are impassible mud holes and slews now. For all the talk of global warming... all I see is an ice age coming.

Sorry to hear about the shoulder Randi. As a fellow broken shoulder person thingy, you have my sympathies/empathies.

I can't do running. I've tried running for several years and each time couldn't escape the conclusion that I just hate it. I used to love it when I was younger, I ran track at school and did moderately OK at a few events, and ran through university. Nowadays though I'm like .. bleh, this sucks. And it doesn't matter how gingerly I treat my knees, my knees hate me these days. When I first went onto this "I'm going to start running again!" kick a few years back, I got arthritis in my knees (combination of shoes, technique, surface choices and well .. 200lbs or so). My older brother, 14 years my senior, who still loves running was all "Well DUH. Maybe you should try losing some weight before you start running." Uhhhhhhhh wow, thanks a lot you JERK. Yeah I'm running for the fun of it, not because I'm trying to .. you know .. LOSE SOME WEIGHT. SHEESH! Runners! They're all cooked in the head, I swear.

I like my bikes these days.

Never was good at any kind of team sport (surprise surprise). I made my dad so proud as a 7 year old when he was assistant coach of the team and me and a bunch of other fellow nerds in training found the sand for the long jump and were playing in the sand rather than chase the ball up and down the field.

Yep, I like biking though.

[randallino]

Sorry to hear about your shoulder Randi.

Where do you push ink, I've gotten some work done by Paul at Smiling Buddha.


Ah yes Brag Creek, I do miss that neck of the woods I remember fondly ridding my bike from NW Calgary up to Elbow Falls just for something to do on a Sunday. :tongue:

[Rbacchiega]

My body in general is alot older than I am I think. I put it through hell when I was competative and now I'm paying for it. The last year I played ball our team was in three different leagues, we were playing 3-6 games a week (Double headers on Wednesday followed by games on Thursday) and then there were practices. I was a catcher and ended up playing over 160 games that season. I first injured my shoulder when I was 14...lost 4 full rides to the states etc etc. So I got into soccer. You don't need a shoulder to play soccer! All it took was a bad take down and I tore my MCL and ACL...
bye bye competative soccer.

But there's no reason why I can't get back into shape. My dumb ass got me into this mess and I plan on getting myself out of it!

[Rbacchiega]

[QUOTE=randallino;415447]Where do you push ink, I've gotten some work done by Paul at Smiling Buddha.


QUOTE]


Thanks
I work at Impact Body Art, which is downtown, but know Paul well. Lucky you for getting him to work on you, I've known the man for 6 years and he won't tattoo me...he's more into doing the appearances now, he's put his time into the industry, it's time the industry look after him. The guy is one of the founding fathers of tattooing in Calgary, he has nothing but my respect...(except for when there's too much sake involved at the sushi house...then there usually is a sushi war....)

[Parker]

I usually drop the weight in the summer when I start biking again but the last couple of years I have been gaining more in the winter then I was dropping in the summer. It was time to add something different into the mix.. We'll see what this does for me. Can't hurt anyway.. or so I keep telling myself.

[my2rotties]

You to eh? I have noticed the same thing happening these days. Too much wonter and not enough summer to burn it off.

I usually drop the weight in the summer when I start biking again but the last couple of years I have been gaining more in the winter then I was dropping in the summer. It was time to add something different into the mix.. We'll see what this does for me. Can't hurt anyway.. or so I keep telling myself.

[AndyL]

Meh, loving the medical system - finally got my appointment with Dr wiley (ortho - not surgeon) at the U of C sports med clinic today... Got refered April 9th - appt may 22nd... Luckily, sounds like I've actually done enough damage to my knee this time around to be a surgical candidate (they've been letting it get worse for the past few years because they don't think they can do further arthroscopic - too many already - thus it's gotta be 'bad' before they'll do more).

But like you guys - lb's have packed on over the past 5 years - mostly because I can't do much walking, hiking or biking before the knee flares up and I end up back on crutches... Yet last 2 years orthopaedic referals have gotten me all of 'you need to loose 60lbs to hit your BMI' - very useful information and advice, given about all I can manage because of the knee problems is 20-30 minutes a day on the eliptical trainer...

And the medical system wonders why people look at medical tourism...

[Rbacchiega]

my shoulder was in bad shape after the first surgery and I was reffered to Dr. Richard Boorman. All this guy does is shoulders and elbows and i was doing well after the second operation, but he told me that once you have a shoulder operation it's only a matter of time before you're looking at partial to complete replacement, which is what i'm looking at now...woot woot

[Delphinus]

You'll be like a cyborg! Make sure you don't get some of that self-aware metal though. I watch Terminator. Mmm, more Summer Glau kicking butt, please, and less of this "Sarah Conner's weirdo dreams" stuff. It's so depressing!

[Rbacchiega]

ha ha!
I just can't get into the one they're showing on tv....I've tried, but meh

[AndyL]

While looking around last year - had some long discussions with a surgeon down at johns hopkins; Pricing wasn't actually too bad - and unlike the canadian system; apparently in the states I have several options as to how to repair... Hoping this time around I get something done - if not, I'm going to end up pulling an rsp and heading south...

Same with knees - they keep telling me the more they go in the worse it'll get; but I can't qualify to even get on the replacement list until 40yrs of age... Without a catastrophic failure (lol, anyone wanna join me for some extreme skiing? Guaranteed you'll get a helicopter ride out!) I'm just in limbo for the moment...

[Ian]

Since we are talking war wounds.... blown knee to basketball scoped for that one and ended that..So i thought I thought I would take up a less dangerous sport and got into rugby and power lifting.......was told 4 years ago by the neurosurgon that I had to choose rugby or being able to walk do to major damage to my back...now i have to wate until narcotics won't control the pain before I get to have surgery....but so far it is all under control.
Worst part is I cannot use them as an excuse at home because my wife was mauled by a bear ...over 30 rib fractures and a broken back before I killed him...she always wins in that contest...LOL

[Rbacchiega]

wow. You're wife has all of us beat...times 10

[OceanicCorals-Ian-]

y'know, healthier eating, trying to quit smoking (again) cutting back on the parties and going to the gym and getting back into the routine like when I used to play baseball/soccer.

Started off nice and easy, going for jogs, doing light circut training at the gym etc. and was starting to feel pretty damned good.

Well, I just got home from the hospital. I've re-agrivated / partially separated my shoulder and am in one of those fancy schmancy slings (typing with one hand!)

Now, I've already had two operations on my shoulder, and need to get another one, so this might be a good thing in that it should bump me up on the list (I mean really, I was on the machine where all you do is pedal your arms...and I wasn't going fast or using much resistance) but it's definately bad in that I'm out of commisssion for a week at least. Can't tattoo with only one arm and can't do much else either.

I think I might go crazy in this house.


Sorry to hear about your injury! Just park yourself in front of your tank and look at the nice frags! :smile:

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Oh man sorry to hear that! Sucks.

I have a routine of going to the gym three times a week and really stick with it. Just becomes 'normal'. But since learning I am going to be living in 30 degree weather all year round (less clothes), I have really felt the need to get in even better shape! LOL

So what I am saying is that you should plan to move somewhere HOT all year round and then you will feel the pressure to get in great shape ;)

or just get there and sweat it all away I guess.

[Rbacchiega]

well I am planning on going back to Italy for a couple months.... that might be the kick I need. That and I don't think I've worn a pair of shorts since I played soccer, so I have nicely coloured knees and pasty white everywhere else on my legs. It's time to get these puppies tanned and show off the tattoos....

[G1GY]

I go for a run every morning. (Because I sleep in and have to run out the door to the car. lol)

I've allways weighed between 140-150 pounds and have been very lean my entire life. This year when I turned 43, I got an instant belly. I mean, just at that moment in time I went from 150 to 160. Not all that much, but it seemed instantanious.
I better do something before this gets out of hand.

I hope you feel better soon.:smile:

[BMW Rider]

Shoulder injuries suck (as do most any other type of injury). I've just managed to get mine working well enough to finally return to work after 6 1/2 months. I never had surgery on the shoulder, but did for my fractured ankle. The shoulder had many things damaged but none bad enough to warrant cutting into it (at least not for now). All this as a result of hitting a deer with my motorcycle. My arm was the first thing to contact the road and did not stand up so well to the forces of a 500lb motorcycle and me jamming it into the gravel at 60 Km/h. Lots of Physio to get it back to about 85-90%. Still some pain and discomfort, but I expect that is just my life now. Looking forward to the future of probably needing surgery on it someday.

I've heard good things about Dr. Boorman, he did my initial assesment for both my injuries in the ER at the PLC. For my shoulder, I ended up under the care of Dr. Lo who is also excellent. I believe they are the top two shoulder specialists in the city if not the province.

Good luck with the recovery, it can be trying not being able to do the things we take for granted. But at least you can still walk, try using crutches with a wounded wing :lol:

[Rbacchiega]

hahaha no thanks Ed.

Well, for those who I met yesterday at Johns, yes, the arm is out of a sling. Dr Boorman contacted me and we talked and it was decided that there's nothing really left for me to have injured/torn...that's already been done. So after the shoulder was put back in place the only point of the sling really was to help keep weight off of it. I hate being the one armed bandit...so it's out of a sling. But noooooo cycle thinger for quite a while. Good thing is, it moved me up on the operation list