The other night for some wild hair reason I slept face down. I'm not talking about a pronated body either. I mean straight nose planted into the pillow, sheet lines on the grill the next morning face down!
The issue I have with it, it "jacked up" my neck so bad that I couldn't rotate it.
It's not awful walking around looking like a periscope from the waist up, but it can be quite challenging when crossing a busy road while I ride my bike.
The pain was pretty intense and I thought I would take a day off from training.
That was until I remembered "if movement (or non movement in this case) causes an injury or stumbling block, then MOVEMENT will fix it.
The first movement to be done? The 4 way neck machine.
Usually I can work the stack of weight with my dome holder. Not today, Zerg!!! One small plate felt as if someone stuck a phillips head screwdriver in my sterno-cleido mastoid!
Couple that with the fact the range of motion made the exercise look more like an isometric. I thought I'd have to end it right there.
Well...if you have been on the receiving end of one of my motivational curt statements, you would know that ending it right there wouldn't be in the cosmos for me.
So...with a dogmatic approach to "I'm going to fix this right now or die trying..." I continued with the training (see below) and now tap out the keys to write this with little to no pain at all.
The range of motion is surprisingly NOT BAD either!
Don't let inconveniences stand in the way of your awesome. If you say you're a bad ass...You better be a BAD ASS!
Today's Training:
AirDyne: 44 minutes
4 way neck: 1x10x1.0
External Rotations: 3x8
Y's: 3x8
T's: 3x8
ROM for the neck in the transverse plane: 1x10
C/S Row: 4x10
Chin Ups: 10x2
BB Curl: 5x5xHeavy
Ab Wheel: 4x10