I have spannered my left knee and to cut a long story short, the x-ray was clear and it is still swelled and not functioning 3 weeks later. The MRI I got a referral for today won't be until 25th Feb (the week after fish heads stag do in Font).
I had a look at going private today and got the eye watering quote of 3.2 grand. Not the kind of money I can fritter away on bionic knee operations!
Rather than becoming demotivated I have found being crocked a great motivator for getting down to the wall 4-5 times a week and doing intensive amounts of pull-ups, chin-ups, weighted hangs, 1 arm hangs, pressups..etc and I'm starting to see some gains already: I.e. Getting bigger if not necessarily better at climbing! The new goal by Font is to tip the scales at 73kg+ and not have the appearance of a skinny fingered, malnourished, hollow eyed aspirational crusher!
Watching World's strongest man always gets me more motivated than watching most climbing media and I have had a few sessions back down the gym too, obviously having to steer well clear of the deadlift and squat but getting back into the pressing exercises and the lat pull downs.
Sadly I am never going to be 6"8 and 180kg, so I'll have to stick with the climbing for now.
You can keep Sharma and Ondra and marvel at Brian Shaw crushing a 442.5kg deadlift:
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442kg? Pah, Jim lifts more than that each time he stands up.
Sad to know you injured your knee! How did it happen? I can't recall anything about it in your blog.
Anyway, heal soon!
The weights are amazing and I really miss them.
Unfortunately, to make everything in this world be in balance, while you are a skinny bastard, I can pack up mass just by staring intensely at a barbell... No good, unless I want to break holds on 6a+ vertical boulders or give some proper hugs to girls...
haha good answer Gareth!
Thanks for the sympathy lore. It just went bad during a session before Christmas. Nothing obvious happened but it is clearly bad.
I think it was an injury waiting to happen after years of roof climbing and heel-toe/heel hook/toe hook cheating!
The good thing is, I will be forced to get stronger fingers and core from lots of front on climbing once it is safe to do so again. Your down jacket hustle on the 1 arm deadhangs terrifies me!
Ahahah!!!
Cheers Rich, it was just a stupid idea to have a laugh at myself!
Heal soon!
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