Norski
Level 5 Valued Member
Greetings. I've recently discovered something interesting about myself and I'm not sure exactly what to do about it.
Apparently I have hemihyperplasia and the left side of my body is about 5% bigger than my right. I'm a full glove/shoe size bigger and my boxing reach is 1.5-2" longer on my left arm. Kind of trips me out but the chicks dig it (if eccentric as hell is cool..) Anyway, I've measured my legs and my left one is also indeed longer than my right. Not so much I've been able to notice for 28 years, I knew my hands were different sizes but I attributed this to playing guitar for 2-6 hours a day all through jr high and high school.
I've had mild to severe SI joint pain for 10 years now. I messed my back up "deadlifting" 155# when I was 19 and stupid and woke up the next day unable to roll over in bed. I've been through 3 SFG certs and studied under a Team Leader for 2+ years and the SI joint pain has been a bit of a moving target the whole time no matter how much emphasis I put on keeping an a#@ shelf or dialing my movement in as much as possible. I was nursing it all through my last SFG cert in December 2017 and when my back locked up and I fell on my a#@ during my 4th rep of my DKFS test I figured I had deeper work to do than just punch the clock strength work
Now I suspect it's not a neuro-muscular issue, having a leg slightly longer than the other constantly pushing my pelvis up to one side every day for all this time has done some weird stuff to my hip complex. I suspect this issue is in the realm of an SFMA but given I'm structurally different on both sides and the abnormality is so rare they treat each person that has it like they're patient zero I'm in experimental territory.
Pulling conventional usually aggravated my back and I've always been better at pulling sumo more comfortably, now I know why. Wider feet = flatter hips since my weight gets distributed differently. Standing on hard ground at concerts for 4 hours has always hurt, even with an a#@ shelf, I just figured I had chronic gluteal amnesia or some kind of SI subluxation despite focusing on my hinge pattern and mobility with a vengeance for years.
How would I best approach certification again? I've made a pact with myself to stay SFG certified but the only thing I've been able to do since December is bodyweight strength. I did a hard set of SS swings with a gym buddy who told me my form looked "perfect" and woke up unable to roll over again. Was walking bent over like old man for weeks until it relaxed
I absolutely do not want to look at this as an opportunity to slack on preparation, I hate participation trophy culture and I want to know I own the certification when I come back for it. I'm not sure how to approach training for this though outside of wearing one shoe and letting the bar hang at an angle when I deadlift. Does anyone train people who has a prosthetic or some type of abnormality they've been able to overcome? Most the cues like "tense your glutes" "screw your legs into the ground" "brace your abs" "stretch your hip flexors" tend to aggrivate it after a while rather than relieve it like it used to. Piriformis stretches feel wonderful but only do so much. I've got a knot that feels like bone in my SI joint that's resistent as hell. ..and I'm a bit lopsided.
I'm on muscle relaxers, and I'm doing a ton of myofacial release with FMS correctives. I'm loosely familiar with the SFMA and tested to have a dysfunctional QL on the long side last I checked. Piriformis and surrounding muscles are quite tight, and my left hip feels best when it's rotated out. Always has. More than one girlfriend has told me she recognizes me from afar by my walk.
Depending on perspective this may dip into medical territory so let's say from a hypothetical standpoint.. How would you address an athlete with the above conditions? I take full and complete accountability for all and any action I may take with the information I might receive. I'm not getting surgery to lengthen my right leg/arm though. I just want to train like I used to.
I'll keep grooving on my pullup program and do what's been helping but this is different than it's been the last few years. The condition likely isn't progressive given my growth plates closed a while ago but I was able to fight through it for a full 3 day cert weekend a few years ago and now I'm very apprehensive to do even a set of swings with anything heavier than a 16kg. I miss being able to flip the crazy switch and throw myself into a training session.
Any insight? Academically speaking of course. There's got to be some Dikul level story worthy of a book forward about an athlete who ended up pulling 900#+ hungover who had a dwarf leg or something.. I'm ears to anything
Thanks in advance, I'm aiming to get my name back in the local instructors list on the site again. I'll find a way, even if it's just as simple as wearing one shoe when I go through next time.
Apparently I have hemihyperplasia and the left side of my body is about 5% bigger than my right. I'm a full glove/shoe size bigger and my boxing reach is 1.5-2" longer on my left arm. Kind of trips me out but the chicks dig it (if eccentric as hell is cool..) Anyway, I've measured my legs and my left one is also indeed longer than my right. Not so much I've been able to notice for 28 years, I knew my hands were different sizes but I attributed this to playing guitar for 2-6 hours a day all through jr high and high school.
I've had mild to severe SI joint pain for 10 years now. I messed my back up "deadlifting" 155# when I was 19 and stupid and woke up the next day unable to roll over in bed. I've been through 3 SFG certs and studied under a Team Leader for 2+ years and the SI joint pain has been a bit of a moving target the whole time no matter how much emphasis I put on keeping an a#@ shelf or dialing my movement in as much as possible. I was nursing it all through my last SFG cert in December 2017 and when my back locked up and I fell on my a#@ during my 4th rep of my DKFS test I figured I had deeper work to do than just punch the clock strength work
Now I suspect it's not a neuro-muscular issue, having a leg slightly longer than the other constantly pushing my pelvis up to one side every day for all this time has done some weird stuff to my hip complex. I suspect this issue is in the realm of an SFMA but given I'm structurally different on both sides and the abnormality is so rare they treat each person that has it like they're patient zero I'm in experimental territory.
Pulling conventional usually aggravated my back and I've always been better at pulling sumo more comfortably, now I know why. Wider feet = flatter hips since my weight gets distributed differently. Standing on hard ground at concerts for 4 hours has always hurt, even with an a#@ shelf, I just figured I had chronic gluteal amnesia or some kind of SI subluxation despite focusing on my hinge pattern and mobility with a vengeance for years.
How would I best approach certification again? I've made a pact with myself to stay SFG certified but the only thing I've been able to do since December is bodyweight strength. I did a hard set of SS swings with a gym buddy who told me my form looked "perfect" and woke up unable to roll over again. Was walking bent over like old man for weeks until it relaxed
I absolutely do not want to look at this as an opportunity to slack on preparation, I hate participation trophy culture and I want to know I own the certification when I come back for it. I'm not sure how to approach training for this though outside of wearing one shoe and letting the bar hang at an angle when I deadlift. Does anyone train people who has a prosthetic or some type of abnormality they've been able to overcome? Most the cues like "tense your glutes" "screw your legs into the ground" "brace your abs" "stretch your hip flexors" tend to aggrivate it after a while rather than relieve it like it used to. Piriformis stretches feel wonderful but only do so much. I've got a knot that feels like bone in my SI joint that's resistent as hell. ..and I'm a bit lopsided.
I'm on muscle relaxers, and I'm doing a ton of myofacial release with FMS correctives. I'm loosely familiar with the SFMA and tested to have a dysfunctional QL on the long side last I checked. Piriformis and surrounding muscles are quite tight, and my left hip feels best when it's rotated out. Always has. More than one girlfriend has told me she recognizes me from afar by my walk.
Depending on perspective this may dip into medical territory so let's say from a hypothetical standpoint.. How would you address an athlete with the above conditions? I take full and complete accountability for all and any action I may take with the information I might receive. I'm not getting surgery to lengthen my right leg/arm though. I just want to train like I used to.
I'll keep grooving on my pullup program and do what's been helping but this is different than it's been the last few years. The condition likely isn't progressive given my growth plates closed a while ago but I was able to fight through it for a full 3 day cert weekend a few years ago and now I'm very apprehensive to do even a set of swings with anything heavier than a 16kg. I miss being able to flip the crazy switch and throw myself into a training session.
Any insight? Academically speaking of course. There's got to be some Dikul level story worthy of a book forward about an athlete who ended up pulling 900#+ hungover who had a dwarf leg or something.. I'm ears to anything
Thanks in advance, I'm aiming to get my name back in the local instructors list on the site again. I'll find a way, even if it's just as simple as wearing one shoe when I go through next time.
