Stupid scale! Must be broken...

[the_vulture]

Yeah, the damn thing doesn't want to budge from 280 lbs. This is in spite of all the Kung Fu and Tai Chi I've been doing the last few weeks. I console myself with the fact that when I was last this weight, I was tight fitting into a size 46. A couple of days ago, I purchased a couple of size 44 jean shorts that fit very comfy and will do me until my size 42s are not so snug.

The big pain in the arse though (about six inches away from being literal), is that I hurt my lower back during today's workout. I was good jogging in spot, I was fine running with knees high in one spot, I was also fine lightly bouncing one leg a number of times and then the other, as if skipping. But the once I try putting an extra high bounce on every fifth 'skip'? BANG! I get seizing in the muscles just off the spine and right above the hip bone.

Dammit.

I finished off the rest of the class just fine, but opted against a walk to the grocery store later on. Currently, I'm dosed up on ibuprofen and reeking of Tiger Balm. It's not a bad injury, as far as my history of putting out my back goes, but I've definately added yet another activity to the list of 'Things that will make my back hate me if I do them.'

On a positive note, I did a lot of work on scissor blocks, rolling up from prone, and how to utilize a couple key pressure points in the neck to do some really, really nasty take downs. :D

Comments

[lupabitch.livejournal.com]

Can you toss in some yoga or other stretching? My back twinges more because of the stress of running, so I do some diagonal back stretches along with the rest of my prep before i go out.

[the-vulture.livejournal.com]

That's good thinking, but I'm actually getting plenty of stretching between both the Tai Chi and the Kung Fu. This latest bit of back related idiocy was an impact issue more than anything else, and not one I could've predicted. I've badly injured my back before doing stupid things in my youth like lifting the rear ends of automobiles and stacking pottery wheels. As a result, I'm rather vulnerable to buggering it up by lifting heavy loads and, apparently, major jarring through a single leg.