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It sounds like the ankle issue is worse than anyone (including AJG) expected. Either that or he is very good at making up exacerbations, in order to hold out. I’m in the camp that he’s actually trying to play, but the ankle isn’t.
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I am trying to find out if my knee pain is from inflexibility, or if I wore it out (right side knee) out from skateboarding for so many years.
I had an x-ray and it didn’t really show anything my PCP could see. May go foreword with a MRI and see an ortho. The pain is chronic but not really debilitating, and the main thing that seems to make it flare up is too many squats, especially lower ones.
The funny thing is the weight doesn’t seem to be the problem. I feel pain more from body weight or very light squats most of the time, so I’m trying to carefully see if I can make this exercise benefit me or decide if I should drop them.
IRL, horizontal head rotation (even wearing a helmet and body armor) is >45 degrees off center. In Tarkov, it feels limited to ~30%. Increasing this would give us better situational awareness, as we could free look around without having to rotate our bodies when stationary, and look farther to either sidewhile moving (as my small unit tactics instructors always taught us to "keep your head on a swivel").
A big weakness for me is flexibility.
Looking to improve my ability to high step and drive through with power, also my ability to get closer to the wall and stretch out to reach far away holds without cutting loose.
Does anyone have any recommendations for stretching protocols, or even just exercises that increase your range of motion. I'm hearing that just doing a stretch routine might not actually strengthen the muscles required to get properly flexible.
I've had RA symptoms for about a month now but I haven't felt any sort of fatigue or loss of range of motion, which was one of the reasons the rheumatologist ruled out RA in the first place. I will be seeing a neurologist on Monday but I wanted to see if these symptoms occur at the start of the disease or if it's possible that it could happen at later stages? Thanks for the feedback!!
I stubbled upon an interesting study that would like to share, and hopefully discuss:
I'll paste a few excerpts hoping it passes the message.
> The partial range of motion exercise method (PRE) is an exercise method that body-builders and weight lifters often use to increase muscle strength and hypertrophy. PRE will induce greater active and 5 passive muscular tension, and can be perform with higher loading compared to full-range or motion (FRE). Furthermore, PRE makes it possible to maintain constant muscular contraction during exercise because of its slower movement speed. Constant muscular contraction during 8 exercise tends to induce intramuscular hypoxia. As higher muscular tension and constant muscular contraction is compressing intramuscular capillaries, intramuscular hypoxia during PRE is expected. Therefore, PRE might cause greater mechanical and metabolic stress in the muscle than FRE.
They randomized 44 men to two groups of 22 trained men, divided in PRE and FRE performing lying elbow extension exercise, three times a week for 8 weeks.
Regarding hypertrophy, they present the following result > The percent increase in the cross-sectional area (CSA) of triceps 12 brachii was 48.7 ± 14.5% after the 8-week PRE program and 28.2 ± 10.9% after the 8-week 13 FRE program.
And summarize: > PRE was characterized physiologically by higher area under the Oxy-Hb curve, greater motor unit activation, and higher blood lactate concentration.
The results suggested that: > PRE induced higher intramuscular hypoxia than FRE.
> intramuscular hypoxia might be the primary factor influencing greater muscle hypertrophy because there were higher correlations between the percent increase in CSA and area under the Oxy-Hb curves 4 after 8-week exercise training.
However: > Previous studies have compared the effects of PRE and FRE using squatting exercise in muscle strength and hypertrophy. The moment arm from knee joint to center of gravity line during FRE becomes longer in the final range of motion exercise than PRE. Therefore, it is reported that FRE is expected to have greater effects of muscle strength and hypertrophy than PRE.
And they conclude: > It was confirmed that PRE is a more effective exercise method to increase isometric mu
... keep reading on reddit ➡Thank you for the response! My question now is should I give my evidence since I have 60 days to give them any to support my disability. Or should I just appeal? Also If I do provide evidence, what kind should I provide?
Obviously a longer range of motion in a lift means more work. But does it also impact the way the muscle develops? I see a lot of guys at the gym lifting heavy weights across limited ranges of motion.
The amount of work being equal (say you just increase weight to counteract range of motion), what impact do these different approaches have on physique?
I have a question about learning ASL. This came up when I first got interested in learning ASL and I was chatting with the someone who works in the Deaf and HoH office at my local library. See, I have Erb's Palsy from a brachial plexus injury when I was born. So I have a somewhat limited range of motion (not overly bad, but folks notice it because I have a penchant for gesturing when I talk) on my left side. I'm right handed, so hopefully this won't be a huge issue but I'm just wondering, would this prevent me from being understood? Or would it boil down to, and sorry for this example but this is the best analogy I have at the moment, the ASL equivalent of a stutter? I'd rather figure that out now before I get super deep into learning and realize nobody knows what I'm saying due to something I have 0 control over.
EDIT: Thank you everyone for your advice and input! I really appreciate it.
Hey folks, I am touring since a few years and have been using Dynafit Khion/Beast boots recently. They are an overlap construction freetouring boot. I always thought they were quite good to tour with, at least compared to the boots I had before.
Now they are in for repairs and since I did not want to be without boots in the middle of the season, I quickly bought a really beaten up pair of Maestrale RS' for the meantime. What baffled me about them was the range of motion and the lack of friction when in touring mode. They certainly feel like I will be losing some stiffness and progressiveness in downhill mode, though that may be because they are fairly beat up.
I now think I may sell my boots (hopefully get a new pair) and get something like a Maestrale RS or even F1. I am just unsure if I really notice the change in ROM during the uphills or miss the downhill performance of my current boots.
How much do you think ROM affects general steep terrain touring experience? The weight of the Dynafits is actually lower than the Scarpa's. What is your experience going to a softer boot?
I almost exclusively use my setup in the backcountry, but I don't know if I am willing to give up downhill performance.
I would say I have my technique dialed in, but am no expert skier, I run Dynafit Hokkaido skis (117mm).
Thanks for your suggestions, happy touring!
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