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disobey_gravityThe Friday post of glee is where you get to tell us about your climbing-related happiness this week.
It can be a new achievement or adventure, or just that you climbed and had fun; it can be that your favourite climbing wall is expanding or that you bought new rock shoes or that you found a cool ice-climbing vid on YouTube. No glee is too small -- or too big.
Members are encouraged to cheer each other on and share the squee.
To enhance this week's glee: Erik Weihenmayer climbs The Naked Edge in Eldorado Canyon. (Oh yeah -- he's blind.)
N.B. Feel free to post your glee in the comm on any day of the week. The Friday post is just to get the ball rolling.
It can be a new achievement or adventure, or just that you climbed and had fun; it can be that your favourite climbing wall is expanding or that you bought new rock shoes or that you found a cool ice-climbing vid on YouTube. No glee is too small -- or too big.
Members are encouraged to cheer each other on and share the squee.
To enhance this week's glee: Erik Weihenmayer climbs The Naked Edge in Eldorado Canyon. (Oh yeah -- he's blind.)
N.B. Feel free to post your glee in the comm on any day of the week. The Friday post is just to get the ball rolling.
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Date: 2011-02-11 05:07 pm (UTC)My glee this week? I found out I don't have arthritis in my left hip, so the problem is muscular or tendinitis. Either of those is much more manageable! YAY!
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Date: 2011-02-11 05:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-11 05:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-11 05:39 pm (UTC)It worked like magic when I started getting elbow tendon problems from climbing, and I've just started seeing if I can use it to ward off some finger tendon tweakiness.
Basically, "eccentric" exercise is the phase of an exercise where the muscle has to work while lengthening -- i.e. the stage when you're lowering a weight to the ground, rather than lifting it (the "concentric" phase).
The protocol for tendonitis is usually along the lines of: identify the muscle attached to the cranky tendon, then do only the eccentric phase of the exercise (using whatever means necessary to handle the other phase -- so you might raise a weight with both hands, then lower it with one). And do this slowly, with substantial weight.
Dave MacLeod has a review of some of the research here (in the context of elbow problems).
Anyway, I am not a doctor or physio, check in with someone who is before you do anything, etc. etc.. But it's good stuff, and as MacLeod says, it seem to be able to literally remodel the tendon structure. Which is very cool.
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Date: 2011-02-11 05:41 pm (UTC)