My recovery has been documented with short videos and comments posted on Instagram. Here you can see the whole sequence, starting from bellow.
"Recovery from Chaos" – ASYMMETRY AND PAIN – The video is a bit confusing. To the left, you have progress on the split squat exercise with the "bad leg": that's 95lbs, 30lbs heavier than the last session, which is good and interesting. I cut the video on the part where I lost balance in one of the sets to show that the added weight evidenced the lack of coordination and balance at the left side. Asymmetry at its best. On the right side there is a possible mistake, because it caused pain and today I'm still a bit sore. Observe that the "split good-morning" with the injured leg (the injury at stake here being the hamstring tendon origin) is extremely hard and painful. The same exercise with the right leg is easy, painless and balanced. The regular good morning, even with the injury (that happened in December 2015), can be done in 10 reps sets with 50-60kg. These data are important to understand the magnitude of asymmetry in this specific injured athlete (me): if the full ROM regular gesture can be accomplished at 10 X 60kg and the split variation can't even be performed with the empty bar (20kg), we can actually understand how much the right leg is being taxed by the imbalance. Which, of course, is a disaster waiting to happen if we don't fix it. #recovery #rebootinglife #recoveryfromchaos #mariliacoutinho #rehab #goodmorning #squat #splitsquat #splitgoodmorning #fixingasymmetry
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"Recovery from Chaos" – A week ago, @danicashdpt and I started addressing imbalances. The most relevant one I have is L X R from long term accumulated injuries: in 2009 I had left knee ACL reconstruction, from which I never adequately recovered proprioception. I broke an all time squat record after that, for example, but to this day I can't climb down stairs without hand support. After that, catastrophic injuries, major muscle tears followed, sometimes alternating L and R, but mostly on the left side. The video shows some improvement (larger frame) after three sessions. I used different unilateral exercises such as split squats, pistols, one leg deadlift and jump-lunges. We are pretty confident that the CNS response to maximum strength stimulus is much faster than correcting imbalances, so that will be the focus of the next cycle, without neglecting strength at a slightly higher volume. Meanwhile, disasters are unfortunately still happening at a more or less regular basis. Chaos is, by definition, made of unpredictable catastrophic events. Yet, their occurrence, given the context, is predictable according to some sort of pattern. Chaos theory is a good approach. Bad luck is another. #recovery #recoveryfromchaos #mariliacoutinho #powerliftinginjuries #powerlifting #imbalances #correctingimbalances #rehab #splitsquats
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