Getting in shape 2011

[ghostdancer308]

^did this injury just happen?

[lt99ls1]

^did this injury just happen?

No sir. Must have happened on 4/21 or 4/23 when I messed up my upper back and neck. I stopped liffting till 5/2 and that when I discovered the rest of the damage. I knew I had pain in my tricep/chest/shoulder but I thought it was just nevre pain coming from my back.
Got any tips for recovery?

[ghostdancer308]

just rest and maybe massage therapy...

[Trailabite]

Got on the scale this morning and it said 216 so that's 6 pounds in 3 weeks and my body % has gone down about 3%. I think my body has finally turned on because the past couple of days my appetite has grown.

[lt99ls1]

Got on the scale this morning and it said 216 so that's 6 pounds in 3 weeks and my body % has gone down about 3%. I think my body has finally turned on because the past couple of days my appetite has grown.

 {toast}

[Mortalis5509]

What do yall think about this protein: http://www.vitaminshoppe.com/store/en/browse/sku_detail.jsp?id=OP-1011 ?

I'm looking for something good but not overly expensive. Right now I'm drinking the muscle milk like stuff in the little cartons for breakfast and throughout the day. Those things aren't the cheapest. I have used GNC pro performance protein powder but that"s not cheapest, well anything from there store isn't.

[BigJerm]

Very popular! Lower price, high protein compared to calories, sugar and carbs.

[Trailabite]

I hate GNC and muscle milk.......that may be ok, never used it. I'm a big fan of syntha 6, they have a lot of flavors and so far they are all good.

[lt99ls1]

Still taking it super easy on the chest/delt/tricep but giving the rest of my body hell. Did a few miles on the mtb Sunday. Did about 2.5 hrs of BJJ last night. Going to work legs today and do some more BJJ too.  {toast}

[Trailabite]

Larry, when doing BJJ are you just doing the kata's or are you actually making contact? I don't know how you do it with a chest muscle injury.......

I'm going into week 4 now. I backed off of the cardio and I'm spending more time lifting. I need to build muscle, period. I tried doing a regular bench press last week and could not believe how hard it was. I think the girl next to me was benching more.......

[lt99ls1]

Larry, when doing BJJ are you just doing the kata's or are you actually making contact? I don't know how you do it with a chest muscle injury.......

I'm going into week 4 now. I backed off of the cardio and I'm spending more time lifting. I need to build muscle, period. I tried doing a regular bench press last week and could not believe how hard it was. I think the girl next to me was benching more.......

Don't worry about how much somebody else can do! Worry about are you giving it 100% every time and are you gaining and reaching your goals. I will be telling myself this in a month when I start trying to bench again.


There are some warm up drills and some things in practice that I just can't do right now. The jui-jitsu is mostly pulling, leveage and not so much about pushing, strength or size. The differences in strength and size have to be major for it to be a factor. So I am able to roll (make contact) at around the 80% effective range. I am eating between 1200 - 1800mg of ibuprofen a day too (doctor prescribed).

Video we shot last night.

Ignore the fat guy in the corner resting while they did sprints.  ;D I was tried and seeing large spots in my vision at that point in the night.

[lt99ls1]

Finished killing my shoulder off last night. No BJJ or upper body work at all now. I will not go back to being a couch potato, lost 32 lbs so far and got at least 25 lbs more to go.
Cardio only for about a month.