Dr's Visit

So- spent the morning fording the snow squalls and poorly cleared streets only to have the Dr. say 'Take it easy. If it gets worse we will MRI your knee.You dont need PT. ' Lame. I would have preferred more than a few cursory joint mobility cks and wait and see. Rather have had a regimen of self administered maintenance techniques to shore up any possible ligament or tendon issues. 'The first words out of his mouth- are you taking anything like Motrin for it?' Indicative of the fundamental problem with our bodies and society in this day and age- pharmaceutical companies w/ the medical industry's stamp of approval have us on a Pavlovian hamster wheel to anything we think of as out of the ordinary- it is a problem they must be fixed. The way i see it is...pain is a language. It can tell you when you have a problem for certain- but the nuance is in knowing what the pain is, why it started and how to handle it. You have a headache- why take 2 aspirin when you can Socratically backtrack and figure out why things are hurting? Ask yourself, are you tired? Dehydrated? bump your head? If the fix is mere water- why take the drug? Tangentially but in a similar vein-on long endurance runs- things hurt- they come and go, you can run through some, others mean- you need to call it quits- youve gone too far. Till you have pushed yourself to some of those limits, you never know what you are capable of. Sometimes the pain means you need some aspirin- others its your body settling in for a long haul- just letting you know all the modes of communication are open and active.

Today's noon class was fun-

For Time:

10 HSPU

30 Deadlifts 135/95#

20 HSPU

20 Deadlifts 185/125#

30 HSPU

10 Deadlifts 225/155#

I finished in 12:10 or so.  After the first 30 HSPU's I had to go to 1 abmat- my arms were just out of gas. Still need to work on full extensions at the top. The dead lifts felt good- Still having an issue opening up at the top. Energy wise am feeling much better today-ate a ton. Maybe my body was fighting off a bug by having me not eat as much yesterday or the day before.