So, spent several hours this morning waking up, then falling back to sleep, waking up, then falling back to sleep. Not a case of insomnia or something, but the shoulder workout my trainer gave me had far greater consequences that I should have thought about. See, I’m a side-sleeper, sleeping on my back is only something I can do if I’m half asleep already and have mind to roll onto it. I wake up this morning and find I can’t lift my arms more than 5 inches from my sides, with two huge muscular bundles in the part of my pec muscles that attach on my arms. My partner was gracious enough to work them down to smaller bundles, but the adhesion there is still enough that it’s causing a huge weakness in those muscles. I should have thought about noting the work I’ve been trying to do to free up my shoulders, and the fact the exercises we were going through were detrimental to my progress. Which, I will now have mind to do, next time the trainer decides to work a part of me that I’m having ripped open. Yes, the muscles need to be rebuilt after being broken down, but they’re not done being broken down yet, and in working to rebuild them it is not necessary to overwork them. Which, is what has happened. I’m trying to get rid of the forward twist in my shoulders, that makes me look like i’m slouching when I’m not. I’ve just severely impeded that progress, in the fact that I’m now in constant pain when I rotate my shoulders back to where they’re supposed to be. I’m now in a constant slouch because we failed to workout the posterior section of my shoulders. Now, maybe I’m just a body nut, but shouldn’t a trainer be well aware of the necessity to work out both the protagonist muscle groups, and the antagonist groups? We didn’t even come close to that. Granted, those movements are probably relegated to the back movements, but still, they should have been present in the same workout. So, when I can move again, enough to get back into the gym, I’m going to re-plan my workout around those muscle groups, instead of going whilly-nilly around my body.
Note: I have way too many run-on sentences.
Freakchylde's 
ha ha ha
and i quote,
to : “god damnit lara… i don’t mind your posts, but could you possibly ever seperate your sentences a bit so it’s not like one long subject?”
*reads a bit more*
: oh… “Note : I have way too many run-on sentences.” Well.. uhm… Glad we’re on the same page!!
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no, actually, when it comes to journaling i believe in stream of consciousness. so, therefore, lots of run-on sentences because it is one long subject. 😛 if it were multiple subjects, it’d be split into multiple paragraphs.
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I keep meaning to ask you for the full story (if you don’t mind, that is) of what is wrong with your back/shoulders.
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The full story is actually pretty short, and describes what’s up with my whole body. I was a top notch gymnast for 17 years. So, all my major joint areas (shoulders, hips, ankles, knees, wrists) are all shot to hell from over-use and compression. My knees and shoulders have bourne most of the brunt because my main events were bars and vault. Most of my bar tricks were trained in harness and whatnot, so sometimes letting go of the bars weren’t an option. So, my shoulders have suffered repeated tearing and feel like I’ve dislocated them several times, even though I haven’t. I’ve got a huge amount of scar tissue in my shoulders that limit the range of motion and pull them forward. I look kind of like I’m slouching, but my back is straight. My dad used to get on to me to get my “shoulders back” (military style), but I couldn’t because the muscles pulled them forward. So, at this point, I’m trying to do as much stalling as possible on my trip down arthritis lane through therapy. Means severeal sessions of scar tissue break-up and re-building those muscles so the scar tissue is repairative instead of inhibitive (scar tissue tends to be a patch going in lots of different directions, which inhibits movement, vs going in the muscle strand directions. Which, still inhibits movement, but not as bad because the tissue will be pulling in the same direction instead of multiple directions). Lots of work and lots of pain, but it means I’ll be able to get out of bed with little pain and less movement issues.
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Ouch! I say it again, ouch! ::hugs:: Here’s hoping that the training will improve your back/shoulders and not leave you immobile and in bed.
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Me too! Plus, love you.
Jacob
(plus, POING hehe ’cause kiki rules.)
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