2024 : 08 : 26

Rigid Things Break

Rest days are inevitable. If you don’t plan them, then illness or injury will find their way in. Sometimes, you do everything right and unexpected incidents still occur and force you to adapt.

255 x 2, 12 weeks post MCL and meniscus tear

Summary:

Over the past week I’ve done a lot of fiddling with my personal training logs and journals. As I mentioned last week, trying to sort out “signal from noise” and let subjective measures (journaling) and objective measure (data / logs) each do what their good at without duplicating tasks (i.e. busy work).

I’d like to think I was sacrificing my body for science, but drinking (alcohol) 5/7 days combined with ragweed season and flip-flopping weather resulted in a sinus infection. With that said, I’m still collecting data — for at least the next 4 weeks — with Morpheus and Cronometer to re-establish some primary, secondary, and tertiary metrics for the above documentation.

The week started with a decent deadlift day, the middle was a deadzone, and working back up to some open mats over the weekend was just the right protocol. The time off did remind me that my knee still isn’t 100% and until I can hyper-extend and contract it all the way I won’t feel comfortable wrestling.

It was a reminder that just because I could lift weights and grapple from my butt, my knee wasn’t completely heeled. I made the mistake of ignoring knee-specific mobility as soon as I was able to move on elsewhere.

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