Strength Exercise
Today I have decided to try something different. I was going to up the weights and lower the reps. This is supposed to wear down your muscle more and cause your body to build more muscle tissue rather than just maintain what I already have. I didn’t really succeed with adding much weight, I’m apparently a wimp and can barely lift anything. I have also skipped abs today and did military press for my shoulders instead. I think it was a mistake.
I have a weird condition in my shoulder called OCD. It’s not the OCD you’d think about when you hear that three letter acronym. It’s Osteo-chronditis Dissecans, a rare bone condition. If you Google it you would find a ton of articles relating to dogs and horses and they are usually put down. I hope it doesn’t happen to me. My orthopedist called it a “fascinating case”. “Fascinating case” is not something you want to hear when you go to the doctor. Basically the top of my humerus is dying and eventually it will die and the cartilage will separate from it. At that time it will be terrible pain and suffering and they would have to remove the dead parts and either replace it with donor cartilage from my knee or some other parts or get a full shoulder transplant. I really don’t want this to happen but there is not a whole lot I can do to stop it. OCD in humans generally happen in adolescent boys in their knees. The causes are unknown but trauma is suspected as one of the causes. I did fall on my shoulder when I was 17 so I might have injured it at that time and now it’s giving me grief.
The bottom line is that I did the military press and I just hope I didn’t injure my shoulder with it. The jury is still out, I’m pretty sore but it could be just muscle pains. We shall see in a day or so.
Bench Press
- 1×10 @ 110 lbs
- 2×8 @ 100 lbs
Butterfly
- 2×8 @ 80 lbs
- 1×8 @ 70 lbs
- 3×8 @ 60 lbs