Shoulder update: Week 10

I can say now that my shoulder feels about 85% up to par.  Which is funny since I can’t wait to play golf again.  I’m really not that great at it but it’s hella fun to just get out there on a hot day and hit a tiny object with a metal stick towards a tiny hole (and do it 9-18 times).  I might walk next time out so I get a good exercise in.

I do daily exercises to strengthen the cuff area.  These workouts look very pansy like.  They look so simple but I tell you what, do them long another and the interior of you shoulder feels like its on fire.  These are bulking up exercises that work delts, these work deep in the shoulder.

I did wake up on it this morning hurting like hell.  Morning is when it’s stiff and the bursitis really gets me.  But it goes away after a few minutes of moving around.  Another solid couple of weeks and I should be mostly back to normal and hitting the links

Shoulder: Week 7

Honestly I have good days and bad days.  So far, today is a good day.  Slow healing makes for extreme frustration.  Doing the exercises really seems to help.  I’m quite sore after I do them but I take that as meaning those muscles aren’t very worked.  It’s not the shoulder muscle that you see on the outside (deltoid) that I’m working.  It’s the small group of rotator cuff muscles I’m focusing on.

After reading up, It seems like it’s one of the most neglected group of muscles in the body.  Only when you hurt it *cough* do you realize how important it is to keep it strengthened.  The exercises are small, trivial almost.  But you do enough of them and you get a little sore in that area and can feel those little muscles going.  I’ll never take that area for granted again.

I can’t wait to play golf again though it might be several more weeks before I feel comfortable doing it.

The wacky weekend

Had a great weekend actually.  The wacky part comes in the form of our kids being insane and playing golf (wacking a golf ball that is).

Our children are just wide open on the weekends.  They get up at 6am and go full speed until the evening.  Our oldest fell asleep early afternoon actually on Saturday.  That resulted in him getting up at 9pm and staying up till at least 11pm.

My golf game wasn’t nearly as bad as I had anticipated.  In fact all of our games were pretty good considering it’d been some 4 years since we played?  I won a $100 gift certificate for being the first to make a genuine par (no mulligans or re-tees!).  Thanks CB!  Funny enough though, I made par on the next hole too, a very annoying and looong par 5.  I got some much needed Sun and I’m basically sore all over.  Look forward to doing that again.  It’s great fun!

We did our 30 minute walk yesterday as part of our 5k training.  She gets shin splints as a result of the too much too fast we were doing.  So we’re taking it slow.  New shoes will help, hopefully we’ll have those soon.  Today we’ll run at the gym more than likely.  Then again, our youngest is sporting a cold it seems so we’ll see.

Wait, it’s Monday? WTB Friday, PST!

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How could I forget the Doctor Who season Finale!?  It was great and tied up everything really nicely.  John Simm plays a great bad guy (The Master) and you really grow to hate him, yet, feel kind of bad for him.  The ending had a nice little twist to it also, especially if anyone watches Torchwood.  I have to add, that show is pretty good too.  I do feel a tad awkward during the makeout scenes that are of the, uh, male nature.  The connection it has to Doctor Who is good though.