You tried using a foam roller for body weight massage? Should be a staple of everyone's physical regimen. Do it 2-3x a day. The roller hits that IT band oh so good and loosens it up but not without lots of pain from the deep tissue massage. I'd reckon you just need to loosen it up. If it were injured, you'd be in dire straits.
Any previous shoulder injuries brah? The shoulder is both incredibly flexible and unstable. The labrum, rotator cuff, minor ligament and other connective tissues are like O-rings and washers to support and buffer stress to the ball and socket joint of the shoulder. My comparison was to mechanical pivots by the way. Try a glucosamine/MSM supplement in gram quantities a few times a day. I've lost seasons of play in my main sport from shoulder dislocations and subluxations (partial dislocate). I know what you mean from the paddling. It's the overuse and ballistic impact of sprint paddling. Try slamming on your breaks day after day and see how fast you're at Meineke. Rotator cuff exercises go a long way.
Yup. And leg to azz transition that make their buttocks look like a nice, firm shelf. Not to forget upper, inner thigh muscles like Faith Hill has. Good teeth and high cheekbones, a sense of humor, burnettes, Portuguese, and intellect can also be added.
Electrolytes, sodium/potassium balance, and overall hydration of the muscle are obvious keys. See my post on the foam roller. Could be a tension issue. Do you wear older shoes and stand on hard surfaces much of the day? Sole supports. They also make a calf stretcher that looks like the foot measuring tool at the shoe store and it 's on top of a boat-like half circle that lets you get full stretch of the calf. Made of plastic and usually blue.
Glucosamine/MSM supplementation, NSAIDs, and either boxing wrist wraps or a wrist support that has a gel insert that goes on the underside of the wrist where you take your radial pulse.
You guys sound like you could use constant hydration (going number one at least every 30 minutes and clear), improvements in flexibility, some more muscular strength and mass so the muscle bears loads and not joints (think if letting a stack of weights in a expertise machine slam together - those are your joints if not treated well), better overall diet, and body weight massage by use of foam roller. Try even half those and you'll feel like new men.
Thanks for the suggestions, I tweaked my shoulder benching a couple of years ago and just did dumbbell press for about six months. Then I worked bench back in. I haven't been in the gym enough this year, I am sure that has something to do with it
My neck. I now take care of my neck. I go in feet first and avoid hyperextending (looking up from the prone position) as much as possible.
How do you avoid this? I can't stand sitting on my board, I just think it's tacky and lazy. Instead I arch up or posture up to see the next set coming in. If your neck is hurt that bad where you can't tilt your head up, you might be injured.
I too can't stand sitting on the board for too long. It puts you out of paddling position and when you see a set coming in you have to turn and find the sweet spot on your board again. It's also uncomfortable. If nothing is coming in at all I'll hang on the board and float in the water, much more comfortable than being on the board. makes you look like a "kook" though
Sounds like just about everyone has something nagging them. Good to know its not just me. For me it's my shoulders and hips. Over the past few years and after plenty of time in the MRI machine I have been diagnosed with a torn labrum (among other problems) in both shoulders as well as both hips. All the doctors recommend surgery but honestly I just don't want to go through the recovery process on all 4 joints. For now I just do my best to keep up with PT and not overdo it, but there's always a nagging pain going on somewhere. Maybe I will end up getting the surgeries down the road but now is just not the time. I'm holding out for some kind of magic labrum repair medicine to hit the shelves. Good diet, exercise, stretching and the foam roller have been my best friends lately.
Damn naggers and things that annoy you. I preach the diet, regimen, and roller all day long. A lil how's your father from the women don't hurt no one neither. Makes the world go round.
Like your rides, eh Gaffer? American muscle or German? I don't mind me a hard downshift taking a 90 degree at 50 now and then.
I have ptsd from combat in Iraq and received a traumatic brain injury in the marine corps 3 months after I returned home from middle east. Right before I paddle out, whether its knee high or head high, I get crazy weak and my legs are heavy. Sometimes I get to lineup and have to let a few waves roll by and then it passes. Other times I get pummeled and don't have the energy to even make it outside. Its scary and sometimes I faint. I think its anxiety of not having control. Weird thing is im pyching and happy before paddling out. But then it comes. Surfing is only thing that cures my issues from war. But I guess sometimes I bring them to the water without trying to. Its getting old. Just want to be normal
BCN - you got that right about being ready for the set on your board's sweet spot. Something I think of all the time out there. I don't lay on my board like a corpse doing the dead man's float. If I'm prone, which is basically all the time, my back is arched with chest up to see the set coming in, ready to move quickly, and for all other times, just in an athletic posture. If that makes me look like a kook, then I don't ever want to look unkookish. This sit on your board all day crap is no different than sitting on an inflatable couch. There's far more stable objects for that at Wal-Mart if you're into that sort of thing.
Thank you for your service Mattyb. Thank you even more for your service in that you continue to carry weight of that duty with you afterwards. As exceptionality is the key to survival, be glad that you're different. I personally am glad I'll never be normal. Again, thank you.
