happyhd
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Hi
TLDR:: tried not pushing bell, messed up, want advice on rhomboid and/or rib release. For the record, I have only gratitude towards @Anna C and @Mark Limbaga for helping, it was I that messed up Aka "too much too soon".
After posting videos of my technique here Hi there, I got some very interesting, good, and for me totally new info: I could(should?) swing without hip push. A powerful hip push was THE cue I had used to learn myself to swing, as in the deadlift.
I immediately tried to changed my focus, trying to delay the swing until just after the moment my forearms leave my thighs. First experience was being dragged onto my toes, obviously wrong. After some trial-and-error I felt the technique was "ok".
I also realiced that this is the excact way I am swinging a lighter bell, no direct hip push. Definitely no arms involved, I can float the bell mid-air, arms removed.
After this my struggling onehand 5x10 felt MUCH easier. I had a notion that my body didn't allowed me full force because of grip stamina so I switched to 10x5, staying on 10 sets while increasing 1 rep per set per day/workout.
So the day before yesterday I got to 10x10 one-arm swings with the 24kg and felt good. Now, I guess I must have pushed those last reps when I shouldn't because I felt "funky" low in my back on the right side, right on the inside of the lovehandle. This was around 6am before work. I felt so great that I decided to have another workout after work, that was a mistake. The workout went great(semi-easy, played with calisthenics and barbell, among them pendlay rows).
Enter yesterday: I almost needed help getting out of bed, walked like a woman 9 months pregnant and could not draw breath fully. Well, I could, but I felt like I was beeing punched in the back. I spent some hours doing light mobility work, then light stretching and a lot of foam/ball rolling. That eased things alot and I felt 90% ok.
So today, same stuff, had to roll out of bed, painful to breath really full breaths, but better than yesterday. I have an appointment with a naprapat(combined Chiropractic, muscle release and needles) next week, but I really don't want to sit around waiting for that.
I know this is not webmd, but I still want to hear your thoughts. As for actual doctors the standard advice in this country is pain killers "if need be" and "give it 14 days". Both are non-options.
Some thoughts: past two weeks I have been working a lot on improving my posture, pulling shoulders back and down(into their sockets), releasing chest and shoulder muscles and general mobility work. This makes me think that perhaps my middle back can engage in ways it could not do(in a long time).
TLDR:: tried not pushing bell, messed up, want advice on rhomboid and/or rib release. For the record, I have only gratitude towards @Anna C and @Mark Limbaga for helping, it was I that messed up Aka "too much too soon".
After posting videos of my technique here Hi there, I got some very interesting, good, and for me totally new info: I could(should?) swing without hip push. A powerful hip push was THE cue I had used to learn myself to swing, as in the deadlift.
I immediately tried to changed my focus, trying to delay the swing until just after the moment my forearms leave my thighs. First experience was being dragged onto my toes, obviously wrong. After some trial-and-error I felt the technique was "ok".
I also realiced that this is the excact way I am swinging a lighter bell, no direct hip push. Definitely no arms involved, I can float the bell mid-air, arms removed.
After this my struggling onehand 5x10 felt MUCH easier. I had a notion that my body didn't allowed me full force because of grip stamina so I switched to 10x5, staying on 10 sets while increasing 1 rep per set per day/workout.
So the day before yesterday I got to 10x10 one-arm swings with the 24kg and felt good. Now, I guess I must have pushed those last reps when I shouldn't because I felt "funky" low in my back on the right side, right on the inside of the lovehandle. This was around 6am before work. I felt so great that I decided to have another workout after work, that was a mistake. The workout went great(semi-easy, played with calisthenics and barbell, among them pendlay rows).
Enter yesterday: I almost needed help getting out of bed, walked like a woman 9 months pregnant and could not draw breath fully. Well, I could, but I felt like I was beeing punched in the back. I spent some hours doing light mobility work, then light stretching and a lot of foam/ball rolling. That eased things alot and I felt 90% ok.
So today, same stuff, had to roll out of bed, painful to breath really full breaths, but better than yesterday. I have an appointment with a naprapat(combined Chiropractic, muscle release and needles) next week, but I really don't want to sit around waiting for that.
I know this is not webmd, but I still want to hear your thoughts. As for actual doctors the standard advice in this country is pain killers "if need be" and "give it 14 days". Both are non-options.
Some thoughts: past two weeks I have been working a lot on improving my posture, pulling shoulders back and down(into their sockets), releasing chest and shoulder muscles and general mobility work. This makes me think that perhaps my middle back can engage in ways it could not do(in a long time).