Finally I can get back to lifting! Man have I been busy but hopefully things will remain this way so I can get back into competition again.
I’m down to 200lbs….man do I feel small & weak.
On a different note. elitefts.com sends out a weekly newsletter which I enjoy reading. In it was an article that I have been waiting years for. It’s about sacroiliac joint pain. I’m here to tell ya it sucks donkey ballz when it kicks in. About 10 or 12 years ago I was following a routine in milo magazine that Gary Taylor of the world strongest man was using. In he was doing step ups. I mean high, knee height, and heavy step ups, 250kg! I got to the point of doing them with 365 at just below knee height. On this particular day I remember feeling a bit “off”. Things just weren’t clicking but I was a stickler for making sure I got my workout’s in as scheduled. I was a few sets in when I stepped up with my right leg and I felt something “wierd” down along the right side of my butt crack. It didn’t hurt just didn’t feel right. Like something slipped. But I continued with the workout anyway. As time went on I noticed muscles in my lower back, glutes, ab’s & hip flexor tightening up in different ways at different times. Creating lots of pain in all kinds of funky spots. I did lots of stretching to try and alleviate the pain but it never truly went away. One thing I noticed is that I couldn’t really do the fun stuff as far as lifitng goes; famers walks, stones. Basically moving around with heavy stuff. I basically had to switch over to powerlifting & olympic lifting because I wasn’t moving around. That and I found that the briefs & squat suit really helped support my hips. I also noticed a bg decrease in my glute strength which the suit helps with.
Over the years I’ve tried seeing many doctors about it but they can never find anything. X-rays, MRI’s never show why it hurts. They just tell me take some ibuprophione…. Gee thanks!
There are days when it feels fine and there have been weeks where I could barely walk & everything in between. For the most part there is a constant pain or discomfort of some sort going on in some area around my lower back/pelvis and it sucks. But I still trained and got half way decent, 1765 total in the aapf 242’s while training at detroit barbell.
I can’t wait to see the second part of the series & would like to thank the guys over at elitefts for finding that site! Hopefully I can become pain free and much stronger that my best total again.