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Pro Tips: Always warm up your muscles before cold exposure. Trying to do this with tight muscles makes the shock worse. Time your cold session before tasks that need focus, like reviewing game film, to get the most benefit.

What to Expect: Recovery feels faster. Drills feel sharper. Next session feels less heavy.

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Liam Dec 10, 2024

The practice of sharing my workout goals here has helped highlight how much of my workout time is recovery/maintaining.

I think that when I was doing less physical tasks outside of workout out, it was slightly more skill time, with a bit less on the recovery time.

None-the-less, it's nice to see it so clearly

I still am doing new and cool things, my handstand has never been better. I get to really play on my hands now, and that's new.

I still want to get back into doing more partner acro though. Trying to figure that out, while knowing that tonight I have to move my bones until my neck stops feeling quite so tight.

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Liam Oct 25, 2024

Well, as is so often the case, I did *something* (presumably while doing more acro than normal on Wednesday) to my wrist, and it's being whingy. So.. taking it easy is the goal today. Still going to do movement as I can, and we'll see what happens, maybe it'll warm up and stop being sad, but I'm gonna be gentle with it either way, tbh.

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Liam Sep 7, 2024

Tonight's workout did not go as expected. I jumped rope in the dark again, which was more or less unremarkable. I then came back inside and started doing some CARS, and as I tested my range of motion I was quickly aware that I was *not* in a good space to be challenging my body.
My neck was stiff, my sides and back were knotted intensely and I was *exhausted*. The tension in my back felt decidedly connected to a numb-ish sensation on my lower back and side that I'd noticed a couple of nights prior. I had overworked myself.. again.
I don't have a good way of knowing what the exact or final cause was but any of the following recent events seem like likely contributors:
- An intense month of working on my pancake flexibility, with *no* work on the twisting movements in the waist and hips
- Moving furniture to upstairs
- New acro moves/ getting back into acro too quickly
- Working out while recovering from a blood draw
- Having spent a few hours mowing the lawn (with a scythe) and trimming the sidewalk edges (with an electric weed wacker thing).

So I may not know what did it (likely some combination near-ish "all of the above") but I did know that I wouldn't be putting any *more* strain on my lower back today. So no flying, which was a bummer, but it's better to be safe than to really injure myself and be stuck not doing for even longer!
I did do full range of movement explorations, and some specific stretches aimed at relieving strain on the sciatic (and other lumbar) nerves, which I am running on the assumption are acting up.
After dinner I took a nice long epsom salt soak, and I shall be being careful to make sure I don't overwork myself this weekend, and I will probably be adding some of those stretches to a daily practice till that strange sensation in my side clears up.

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James Wynn 🧐Mar 14, 2023

Can anyone recommend some good injury recovery supplements? I've been looking at a lot of them, but it all feels like marketing which always makes me suspicious. I saw some promising stuff from SwissRX but holy crap $$$. Maybe they work but all the reviews sound like paid testimonials.

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