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They are sadists. 100%. But, I had PT really early in life and got used to their sadism and work well with it so... I am just grateful Kaiser is like "We are continuing PT until the PT is happy with your progress." As of right meow, he is not.I’m happy that you have found a great PT. If you have any questions though I am happy to pass them along to my wife for a second opinion.
Oh and I don’t know if I would say I’m lucky to live with a PT, she has no sympathy for me
Have you seen that new commercial I want to say its Ford but it has a voiceover that says something like " If you think you can do it. Or you think you can't do it, you are right." I am for sure mangling it but that is the gist of the commercial.The easiest way to kill a performance is to tell yourself “I can’t do it”. You usually end up being right.
Another easy way to screw it up is to set and focus on impossible expectations. Just barely beating your expectations will feel a lot better and will prob hurt a lot less than losing to your expectations. I’ve had moments in races where I thought things were going terribly. Then I noticed I was beating my goal and suddenly my legs stopped hurting
What was stopping you from trying Iowa Hill before? The unknown? Too much total exertion? Too steep / too difficult to pedal going that slowly?
One thing that structured training has taught me is that tomorrow's workout can be just as important as today's. Wrecking yourself today so much that you can't perform tomorrow is far less productive than doing both workouts well. All that is easy to manage when someone else is writing your schedule. Or when you have clearly defined rest days, as there's more freedom to wreck yourself before a rest day. But it's good to be mindful of this all the time.Have you seen that new commercial I want to say its Ford but it has a voiceover that says something like " If you think you can do it. Or you think you can't do it, you are right." I am for sure mangling it but that is the gist of the commercial.
Another mental note to self don't do superset arm days right before mowing the lawn. Got a new to me Cyclone rake to stop having my yard look like dead grass clippings all the time. Well you have to empty it so I was using a rake to empty it at our burn pile and for the love of god all that extra arm work on top of the heat had my forearms and biceps screaming "No Mas" in short order but had to power through it which sucked. Luckily for me on Sunday the motor on the Cyclone rake wouldn't stay started so detached it and now sections of the yard have tons of dead clipping but my arms were saved.
Hopefully this week will be calm at work, I was on conference calls for down systems 14 hours Monday, 9 hours Tuesday and Wednesday was a marathon 22 hours until 7am Thursday morning, so that I can stick to my normal 4 day schedule and not have to double up days.
It’s a big effort (for me) at 30 miles and 5k+ of climbing. And it’s steeeeeeeeep. I’ve really only been doing this since the very end of April. But like I said, I now see that it’s within reach.
Yeah I didn't factor in emptying the dame grass container and the strain it would put on my arms. Lesson learned arms and shoulders now moved to Thursday as it didn't seem to effect my back at all so that will be done Fridays.
I just started PT for the shoulder yesterday. It went well and the gent was solid. Did a lot of PT when I was younger and racing MX, but not much since. Got the go ahead to do several exercises I stopped doing because of the pain so that is cool. There was no pain doing those so good to go. No pushups or shoulder specific stuff yet.I’m happy that you have found a great PT. If you have any questions though I am happy to pass them along to my wife for a second opinion.
Oh and I don’t know if I would say I’m lucky to live with a PT, she has no sympathy for me
5k over 30 miles is a damn good ride!
