29.01.08
Posted in Crossfit, General at 8:23 pm by Colin McNulty
My sore elbow continues to be a pain (pun intended, lol!). I should point out that I didn’t hurt it at Crossfit, but outside.
I’ve gone for doing no exercises at all that use my right arm, in order to speed up recovery, but it’s taking a very long time it seems. Though it appears that the pain is less, what I can’t work out though is this: is it actually getting better and there is less pain; or am I just doing a better job of managing it to minimise the issue?
It’s also occurred to me that the Anti-Inflammation properties of the Zone Diet combined with the ultra refined fish oil I’m taking, might actually be masking the symptoms. This might explain why it seemed to get worse around the Christmas period, when my eating habits were rather UN-zonish! Could it be that I’ve nor suffered nearly as much as I would have because of what I eat? It’s hard to say really.
It is putting a downer on the Crossfit side of life it has to be said. Today for example, I couldn’t do the weighted pull ups, and instead did Vertical Jumps. Actually this was fun, but only because of the look on Mark’s face when I touched the roof of the gym at the 10′ 2″ point! 
Sounds impressive huh? I thought so too, until I measured my maximum height standing touch at 96″ which makes my vertical jump 26 inches which somewhere along the line doesn’t sound as good as 10 foot 2 inches. Although I’ve just looked at the Athletic Skill Standards and 25″ is Level III with 30″ Level 4, haha!
See these posts for my previous discussions on the Athletic Skill Standards Level 2 and Level 1.
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25.01.08
Posted in General at 10:40 am by Colin McNulty
About 10 cars all crash at the same spot one after the other. Most amusing are the people who think that bailing out is the safest course of action!
This driver looses it in a car wash and manages to crash 3 times in 30 seconds:
Actually this one’s a major bike crash at the TT race, what’s special about this is there’s a camera on the bike and you get to see exactly what the rider saw:
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21.01.08
Posted in Crossfit, General at 9:46 am by Colin McNulty
Last year I hurt my right elbow at my brothers Stag Do whilst driving the off road Tomcars. It’s been playing me up ever since but was never enough to stop me doing Crossfit.
In the run up to Christmas however it got worse, basically a pain whenever lifting with it. I was finding it harder and harder to do things like Push Presses, Cleans etc so eventually went to the physio just before Christmas. She advised me to scale back what I was doing and I did for a few weeks, but it didn’t help. So I decided to take 2 weeks off as complete rest.
Well the news is good and bad. The good news is that when I do get pain, the pain is less severe. The bad news is, that I’m getting pain a lot more. Even doing normal stuff round the house like washing my face, opening a jar, etc. Even driving was giving me jip the other day. This is 4 months after banging it and after 3 weeks complete rest.
Yes it’s been 3 weeks as despite my intentions to go back after 2, I realised it was too soon. Also, it’s surprising how quick you can get out of the habit of going down the gym. I had several days last week when I really intended to, it just never seemed convenient. I guess I need to go back to the physio / quacks these week to see what can be done….?
Still, I went back to Crossfit on Saturday, it was always going to be bad but especially the heavy running component was hard. The Pose Running technique I’m trying is definitely helping reduce my calve pain when running, which is excellent news, but I found it hard to maintain the pose whilst knackered. More work to be done there.
I’m going to try to go 2-3 times a week from now on again, until my elbow sorts itself out. It’s damn frustrating constantly having to do substitutes, especially when it’s all the heavy lifting that I like, and can’t do.
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18.01.08
Posted in General at 11:01 am by Colin McNulty
I can’t tell you how good the new Batman film looks, see for yourself:
Of if you prefer a better quality version:
http://atasteforthetheatrical.com/deathtrap/default.htm
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16.01.08
Posted in General at 9:33 am by Colin McNulty
I’ve been a computer user and worked in the IT industry for 15 years so feel that I know my way around computers a fair bit. But every now and then, I work out how to do something new, and am completely dumb founded at how stupid I have been for not working it out before!
Microsoft Outlook has a neat feature where when you enter an email address, it remembers it. Then next time you start typing the same email address or name, it drops down a list of similar email addresses you’ve typed in the past so you can choose one. When I first saw this I thought it was great and was impressed that they also listed the more user friendly conact name, not just the email address.
How wrong I was. Over the years this feature has become a bugbear in my working life, as people I’ve kept in contact with have moved companies and changed email providers etc, so sometimes when I started typing their name in the email field, I get a drop down list with many entries in, all saying the same name, but with no idea which is the correct email address behind the name.
Worse, if you ever mis-type an email address, Outlook remembers that too and you’ll be forever prompted to select an email address you know is wrong. You can’t imagine how annoyed I’ve become by this once great feature. So this morning, I went looking for an answer…
OMG I’M SO STUPID!!!
The solution is shockingly simple and I can’t believe I didn’t think of this myself. In fact I’ve not felt this dim since I accidentally resized my TaskBar to cover half my screen whilst on the phone, and not knowing how I’d done it, I suffered it for a week before finally realising I could simply drag the edge back down!
So here’s the answer, prepare to be shocked: When you start to type and the drop down appears, use the cursor keys to move up and down the list to the entry that’s old, and….. wait for it…. Press the Delete key! That’s it.
See, dumb and dumber huh? I’ve going to find a rock to crawl under and hide the rest of the day away.
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11.01.08
Posted in General at 3:06 pm by Colin McNulty
Chickin (sic) Freezer Spoof:
Ricky Gervais pitches for Extra’s on Dragons Den:
Rory Bremner as Des Browne pitching UK’s Trident Nuclear Deterent to the Dragons:
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03.01.08
Posted in Crossfit, General, The Zone Diet at 7:54 am by Colin McNulty
This morning I was 13st 7 (189 lbs) up from 183 when I checked my body fat before Christmas. I’ve really noticed it in my waist mostly, and the tape measure shows that I’ve gained an extra inch there back up to 37″!
This puts my body fat percentage back up to 18%. Bugger!
The Zone Diet shall have to come to my rescue once more. What does help is that the wife and I have decided to go tea total for a couple of months, at least till her birthday, and see how we feel after that. I can’t say that isn’t going to be hard, cos it is but it needs to be done and will be interesting to see the effects it has on us.
What doesn’t help is that I’m feeling pretty beat up at the moment and can’t workout as normal. I hurt my elbow back when I went on my brothers stag do and it’s never properly healed. In fact it’s been getting worse and now it hurts not only when I’m lifting weights, but doing mundane stuff round the house: like lifting a drink, or pickup up a book, or brushing my teeth.
As a result I’ve been doing other stuff at Crossfit, but Monday’s leg and sit up intensive workout beat me up big style and I have a sore knee and sore stomach muscles as a result, and that was 3 days ago.
I’ve been wanting to see about going down to the new Awsome Walls climbing wall that’s upped up down the road from me, which is apparently one of the highest climbing walls in England. But I can’t in my current injured state. I’m also planning to take up Krav Maga this year too, but that is similarly going to have to wait.
Welcome to 2008, ho hum!
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