This just in: Breaking your neck not recommended
Ever have one of those weekends that things just don’t seem to go right? My team lost, my apartment is barely breaking 60 degrees fahrenheit, and the first thing I did on my birthday was sit up in and bed and listen to a loud crack as my neck decided it didn’t want to do anything for a few days. A minor muscle strain, probably from my short weight workout and hour long run in the rain the day before, it definately means at least a week off from lifting, probably more.
I have enough pictures taken to last the rest of the month for the animated exercise descriptions, but I may have to revisit variations on previous exercises if I am not able to get back in for another photo session. Hopefully I will be able to maintain the one a week pace.
On a bright note, I do have a new type of stretching to research and eventually write about on here.
The moral of this story (somehow) is that you should go see your doctor if you hear a loud crack and your neck experiences some sharp pains. Luckily, my doctor’s office has a sports med team upstairs that they can send down so that I don’t have to pay the specialist copay or waste time getting a referral. Don’t ask how that became the moral; just take my word for it.
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January 17th, 2006 at 10:40 am
So sorry to hear that you team lost…NOT! But I must say my team lost as well…and the refs did everything that they could to give them the game. Damn Colts! Hoping that Denver beats Pittsburgh this weekend.
January 17th, 2006 at 2:44 pm
Neck pain’s a, well, pain in the neck. Hope it’s back to normal soon.
January 17th, 2006 at 9:16 pm
Thanks, Scott. It is mostly better now. Hopefully by tomorrow I’ll be able to look to the right again.
As for the AFC game next weekend, I am going to root for the steelers because there’s nobody on the broncos for me to root for, and I wouldn’t mind seeing the bus get his ring before he retires.
December 31st, 2006 at 11:30 am
[...] This year, I ran just shy of 1370 miles. Not a lot of miles, but enough to have kept me busy. I suffered two injuries, one of which was running related. In mid January, I pulled a muscle in my neck which delayed my real start to my training. [...]
February 10th, 2007 at 7:42 am
[...] Sometimes you really like a workout, but for whatever reason it just is not feasible to do the workout in the manner you have written down. For example, you might have to learn how to navigate a new gym or use dumbbells instead of barbells or machines. In my case, I took a few weeks off after I hurt my neck really bad. I also joined a new gym. It seemed like a perfect opportunity to get used to the layout of the new gym and to get back into a shape a little before starting a new program, but the layout of the gym was not conducive to the goals of this workout. So, as an example of retooling a workout, here is what I will be doing it for the next few weeks instead of my normal resuming weights after time off workout: This workout is done as a circuit, which means that you perform a set of each exercise and then immiediately start the next exercise with as little rest as possible. You can either rest for a few minutes between circuits, or just jump straight into the next one. This workout is designed to hit the majority of your body, working similar muscles a few sets apart from one another, but you will have had plenty of rest to do 3 sets continuously with no rest if you want. The idea is to lift a weight that you can comfortably lift 15 times. You should feel it at 15 repititions, but you should be able to do 2 or 3 sets of 15 reps (except where noted) of each exercise and not be extremely sore afterward. Start with some type of warm-up, such as a jig jog on a treadmill or easy spinning on an exercise bike. You want to get your blood flowing. If you like, stretch a bit after your warm-up. One mile on a treadmill should be good, or 10 minutes on an exercise bike. Between exercises, feel free to drink plenty of water. I aim for at least 32 ounces of water per workout, which in this workout is pretty easy to do because it is so long. The circuit goes as follows: [...]
July 11th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
[...] reminds me a lot of my birthday a couple of years ago, when I pulled a muscle in my neck and had to cut back on my training for a few [...]