It has been a while since I posted. I've been busy. I've had a few highland games contests come and go, and have been progressively getting better. However, recently I've hit quite the roadblock...
This isn't my x-ray, but that's what it would look like.
I was doing the sheaf toss at a games in SD and was throwing for 28 feet. When I dipped down to throw and pulled up I felt a gross crunch in my neck and then it felt like somebody stabbed a knife in it. I couldn't even hold the fork with the bag on it to go for another throw, believe me, I tried. I did, however manage (incredibly) to complete the caber toss after that. I thought that maybe I just torqued a vertebrae and it just needed some time to fix itself, but it didn't get any better and the first 4 days after the contest I couldn't even get my hands high enough to wash my hair. So I went in and this is what we discovered. Apparently when I dipped to pull the bag up for the toss, my traps contracted so hard they snapped my spinous process in half. Awesome! So now, I have to wear a sweet cervical collar which we are promptly going to paint black and put skulls on. I can however train things that don't make my neck hurt, which isn't much since you contract your upper back for pretty much everything awesome in the gym.
I did bench yesterday since I can't do any overhead. I tried to go for 225, but it smashed my neck into the bench, so I decided to do 135 for 100 in as many sets as it took. Halfway through I figured out that if I hang my head and neck off the bench, I can do it relatively pain free, I'll try that next time and see if I can go any heavier that way. I finished my bench and supersetted it with weighted leg raises, grip work, and hammer curls.
Today I hit some belt squat which I can already tell are going to be my savior. Here is a picture of my belt squat setup. The only bad thing is that when you get heavy, and it's a hot day, the tire really sinks in and sometimes it's hard to walk it back to the edge.I managed to work up to 450 for 2 sets of 5 and then hit 275 for 2 sets of 10.
My plan is to just alternate days of upper and lower, basically whatever I can handle, I'll do. I won't be able to do anything that hurts my neck for the next 4-6 weeks until this fracture heals.
This year has just been the shits for me as far as injuries go, but I'll come back from this one no problem, just a bump in the road on the way to another bridge to cross. I'm looking forward to getting back to the Lincoln-Omaha area and training with the guys (however limited it may be)
I'm still crossing my fingers that I'll be back in time for MacPhearson games. I calculated my scores from my last contest and based on that, if nobody else changes, I should be ranked close to 13th in the amateur class, which isn't bad for my first year of throwing. I know I can improve my throws with more reps and practice, so my goal for next year at this time is to be top 10.
Sorry to everybody who reads this for not posting all summer, but it was nice to just get back to basics and not care about anything but training. I'll post from here out even though it may be dry since I apparently can only do bench and belt squats.
Making cervical collars bad ass since 2011. (Who does that, seriously)
Update. Apparently nobody gives a shit, so...fuck him.
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