Honestly, at this point I am not 100% sure of what will trigger it at this moment but I know that actual work sets of Rack Pulls or RDL's are not a go right this minute. I am sure I could do them in some form of recovery capacity. However, I also need to continue to make progress or work the area enough not to lose any progress. So at this point my concern isn't so much what to do to recover. The area needs rest, and allowing the inflammation to go down is what is needed. This isn't a muscular injury, or imbalance but the result of an acute injury where inflammation creates the issue by pressing on the nerve and once that inflammation is gone so is the issue so long as I don't put a bar back on my spine. Right now my concern is what to do for hypertrophy in that area in the meantime.Trying to better understand the position that puts the bad strain on you: are you able to do like bench supported rows or seated machine rows?
On the RDLs I rehabbed at 95lbs and every day warm up with the empty bb.
I can't tell you anything you don't already know better than me, but there are some movements like my arm bars and RDLs that have saved my life at incredibly super duper low weights. I mean can you bend over to tie a shoe? That can be an RDL almost....
Tuesday is my next leg day and the next day that should push the area a bit. I have RDLs, and lunges that day. So I will be testing things out then and then doing some extra work on supported rows or some seated cable rows if I find I can not do them. I did try to do the Arsenal Supported Row Bench Rows on back day, and it wasn't too bad but also wasn't a good or non problematic feeling either. So, I felt I was safer with a light cable row to stimulate and get a lot of blood into the area instead after trying them.
Yeah, when it is genetic unfortunately the holistic stuff is just good nutriton practice. It is not medicine and can't offer what the medicines out now do. Not even close in most cases. If so the FDA and Big Pharma would ban them as supplements, and make them a medicine for profit. If you take the medicines you need to help out you should live longer.My father was incredibly healthy. He was a DMD, Merrimack College and Tufts Dental cum laude, and believed more in holistic medicine. lived on Salisbury beach, walked a mile a day in the sand, racquet ball, fish pill, garlic pill, total gym(Thank You Chuck Norris!), didn’t drink, didn’t smoke, only caffeine was from green tea for antioxidant purposes but my mother smoked a carton of Newports a week, and 2 handles of vodka or rum/wk and she has lost mental faculties due to Lewy Body Dementia but her physical health is fine. If I had an option I’d rather go out his way
Time will tell. For now just trying to be healthy.
Very interesting, I was looking and it looks like it might be closer to what was 4g is now 3g, but 25% is still a big discrepancy. Of course that is just from 2 different studies I just went and looked at after you mentioning this. You may be getting your information from newer or more reliable studies. There is also an added benefit to the resistant starches for gut and lower intestinal health from the resistant carbs. Which could allow more of the rice to be digested and free some of the carbs from rice up that might otherwise just be excreted.It’s definitely a good way to meal prep. The only downside could be that a certain percentage of the carbohydrates turn into resistant starches when you cool them down for 24 hours. This means instead of 4 calories per gram of carbohydrate, it becomes 2 calories. Whether this is important or not depends on how much one cares about it, and the continuity of it.
I think most importantly as you mentioned though, the key here is consistency. If you have always refrigerated your rice, or at least do so now and continue to do so then keeping that level of consistency is going to mean when you bump carbs up or down you will always be adjusting rice cooked and cooled the same way. So, the results should remain somewhat predictable, because it's nutritional worth should be the same gram per gram.
Do you know of a rice cooker that can keep rice warm for days. I have heard of them but when I look even at the $300+ rice cookers I don't see any touting more than 30 hours. I guess the other option would be to make exactly what I needed nightly, leave it on extended then pack it up in some type of insulated device to keep it hot throughout the day. How do you cook your rice?
Yeah, if you google it you will find a ton of articles, studies and information on it. That being said, I may ask my coach if he has any preference on how I prepare my rice. One thing that was also mentioned is basically that the resistant starches act in the same way as fiber slowing down the absorption rate, and blunting both the glycemic and insulin response. So never cooled rice might be better after a workout if trying to get things in there as quickly as possible.Wait, what is this? Carbs cooled down lose caloric value?
I was 197.4 lbs today, weight is still dropping back down. I kind of expect to see an increase in calories again this week with that being the case. I think my metabolism is revving up with the big increase in carbs, which caused a pretty good increase in overall volume of training this week for anything not affected by my injury.
I am about to take my pre-workout and head to the gym here in about 30 minutes. It is Arm day, so it should be a fun day at the gym.