The Dude
MuscleChemistry Registered Member
I used to love doing yard work, work on my vehicles, home improvement stuff and at times it rivaled my bodybuilding interests. Over the years I've kind of sized myself out of alot of it. Before the trucks my wife and I had C6 Corvettes. When we bought the land in TN we planned on moving up there in the near future and Corvettes just weren't going to cut it. I did 99% of the work on the vehicles from maintainence to performance stuff. Now we both have the big trucks and I can no longer do alot of the work. My neck is fused so I can't get under the trucks to do oil and filters. My arms are too big to get into alot of areas and because of my strength I pull muscles real easily. I had to have my dad pick me up from my buddies house when I dropped Silks truck off for work. They both drive Convertible C6 Corvettes and I could barely fit.. and that was after it took me 10 minutes to safely get in..
I also used to love doing yard work. I hadn't had a house since maybe 2007 and we just bought one. We pay someone to do mowing and trimming since we dont have the tools and don't really want to fill up the garage with the stuff and have more crap to maintain. Well also have a nicely landscaped lawn and the trees needed to be cleaned up. 30 minutes in and I pulled that muscle in my upper lat / tricep insertion. It seems anytime I have to use any force on anything I pull something. I even have to be careful walking my puppy as she is getting bigger and I strained my calf one time when she yanked me and I took a longer step. If I didn't have IGF I would literally go from one injury to the next...
As you guys know I'm more on a maintanence type thing so my training isnt crazy nor is it all that frequent... I did some IGF right in the area and took some Ibuprofen. I trained yesterday so I won't train again for like two days and then it's legs, so by the time I get to upper body it will be healed, but it's frustrating as shit. If I didnt have a good buddy that does all the work on my vehicles I would be bone dick broke just from the normal stuff I can't do any longer
I also used to love doing yard work. I hadn't had a house since maybe 2007 and we just bought one. We pay someone to do mowing and trimming since we dont have the tools and don't really want to fill up the garage with the stuff and have more crap to maintain. Well also have a nicely landscaped lawn and the trees needed to be cleaned up. 30 minutes in and I pulled that muscle in my upper lat / tricep insertion. It seems anytime I have to use any force on anything I pull something. I even have to be careful walking my puppy as she is getting bigger and I strained my calf one time when she yanked me and I took a longer step. If I didn't have IGF I would literally go from one injury to the next...
As you guys know I'm more on a maintanence type thing so my training isnt crazy nor is it all that frequent... I did some IGF right in the area and took some Ibuprofen. I trained yesterday so I won't train again for like two days and then it's legs, so by the time I get to upper body it will be healed, but it's frustrating as shit. If I didnt have a good buddy that does all the work on my vehicles I would be bone dick broke just from the normal stuff I can't do any longer
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