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So, last Thursday I had an operation on my right eye. This involved cutting the eye open slightly to move one of the 6 extra occular muscles into a different position.
The muscle which pulls the eye upwards was too strong and causing double vision when looking down at my laptop screen. This was very annoying as I spend all day working on a laptop or external monitor.
A practical example of my problem would as follows: imagine you are looking at the list of threads in a forum but cannot line up the name of the thread with the name of the person who last posted in it.
Anyway, it is now 5 days later and today is the first time I managed to leave the house unassisted. For the past few days I couldn't really look at anything except for my feet, as any upward pull on that newly positioned muscle was pretty sore.
I managed a couple of walks by hanging on to Green Athene
Stuff like deadlifting and squatting is out of the question for a few more days. I don't want to risk bursting my eye / stitches open any further by applying extreme pressure i.e. lifting heavy stuff.
Anyway, the rest of my body is enjoying a nice recovery period :pac:0 -
So, last Thursday I had an operation on my right eye. This involved cutting the eye open slightly to move one of the 6 extra occular muscles into a different position.
The muscle which pulls the eye upwards was too strong and causing double vision when looking down at my laptop screen. This was very annoying as I spend all day working on a laptop or external monitor.
A practical example of my problem would as follows: imagine you are looking at the list of threads in a forum but cannot line up the name of the thread with the name of the person who last posted in it.
Anyway, it is now 5 days later and today is the first time I managed to leave the house unassisted. For the past few days I couldn't really look at anything except for my feet, as any upward pull on that newly positioned muscle was pretty sore.
I managed a couple of walks by hanging on to Green Athene
Stuff like deadlifting and squatting is out of the question for a few more days. I don't want to risk bursting my eye / stitches open any further by applying extreme pressure i.e. lifting heavy stuff.
Anyway, the rest of my body is enjoying a nice recovery period :pac:
Good to hear the op went well and you're on the mend chief. Keep well away from the gym til you are fully recovered :-)0 -
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So, last Thursday I had an operation on my right eye. This involved cutting the eye open slightly to move one of the 6 extra occular muscles into a different position.
The muscle which pulls the eye upwards was too strong and causing double vision when looking down at my laptop screen. This was very annoying as I spend all day working on a laptop or external monitor.
A practical example of my problem would as follows: imagine you are looking at the list of threads in a forum but cannot line up the name of the thread with the name of the person who last posted in it.
Anyway, it is now 5 days later and today is the first time I managed to leave the house unassisted. For the past few days I couldn't really look at anything except for my feet, as any upward pull on that newly positioned muscle was pretty sore.
I managed a couple of walks by hanging on to Green Athene
Stuff like deadlifting and squatting is out of the question for a few more days. I don't want to risk bursting my eye / stitches open any further by applying extreme pressure i.e. lifting heavy stuff.
Anyway, the rest of my body is enjoying a nice recovery period :pac:
Just got around to reading this now. I'm glad to hear that the operation went well and it's good to see you're back lifting again! 0 -
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Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 9,506 Mod ✭✭✭✭ Join Date:Posts: 8925
Malteaser! wrote: »Just got around to reading this now. I'm glad to hear that the operation went well and it's good to see you're back lifting again!
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Thanks. One of my goals this year is to power clean & press 60kg. At least now I know the pressing part is manageable!
Once you improve your clean technique I'm sure you'll be able for 60, imo you are strong enough already, its just a matter of doing it right. Oh and hammer curls ftw!
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Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 9,506 Mod ✭✭✭✭ Join Date:Posts: 8925
Saturday March 28th:
Squat
20kg - 1x8
60kg - 1x4
70kg - 1x2
80kg - 1x2
90kg - 1x2
100kg - 1x2
110kg - 1x2 ... personal best
115kg - 1x0 ... unracked and went down ok. Started up and ran up out of steam after a small upwards push. Clanked down on supports. Next time
60kg - 3x8
Military Press
20kg - 1x20 ... random warm up with first set of squat
Inverted Shrug
2.5kg per arm - 4x20 ... mini plates
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Barbell Lunge (oly bar)
40kg - 3x8 ... legs in bits after this on top of squats
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Bench Press (dumbbell)
12.5kg per arm - 1x10
32kg per arm - 3x5
One Arm Row (dumbbell)
12.5kg per arm - 3x10
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Face Pulls
21.25kg - 3x8
Hanging Leg Raise (feet to hands)
3x8
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110kg x2 squat - chuffed :pac: About time! - think I first squat 105kg x1 last May. In the past 10 months I have definetly put on a lot of muscle on my lower body and increased my strength through lots of volume.... so was good to go for a max today and see what happened. Previous max was 105kg x5. Never squat anything successfully above 105kg until today.
The 115kg didn't feel too bad. Maybe it would have went up if I had not done two reps on 110kg. Very pleased with myself anyway!
Bodyweight around 76.5kg so I was pretty close to a 1.5 bodyweight squat today (114.75kg). Now 120kg x1 (my squat goal for the year) dosen't seem too far away.0 -
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Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 9,506 Mod ✭✭✭✭ Join Date:Posts: 8925
Pull Ups (narrow, parallel grip)
BW - 1x14 ... equals pb, video to follow ....
Bodyweight 77kg this morning0
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