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the same, I am able to crank out 3 hours or more easily and will start doing front-end stuff besides math and boot.dev this week, this will bump me up from 2-3 to about 4.5-6 hours of focused work daily. I have been regressing a little bit but I did not have any days of zero work. I do feel a sense of slight unease since I stopped taking Concerta so will schedule an appointment. I will experiment with 72 milligrams to see how I react to it since I was on 36 milligrams.
I had one day of skipped work which was today. I do appreciate the support I got last week about my thread about the deaht of the danish backpackers I befriended. Will check in next week to see if I did end up working the amount I am aiming for. Math academy is worth the 50 dollars, its half of what I am given each month by my parents but I really like it.
Rotator Cuff issues
I got a partial tear in my right rotator cuff 6 months ago and have been skipping the PT I have to do at home. Has anyone had shoulder issues, what was the recovery like? The physio thinks that I will be 100 percent by the end of January but I am skeptical, in my head, I am always worried that I would rip it off for good if I go hard so I have mostly progressed in movements besides the chest press or lat pulldowns since I purposefully use lighter weight for them.
Don't do this. The physical therapy is what is going to help you. Does your physical therapist know you're also lifting weights?
He recommended it to me lol, he was the one who diagnosed my tear and got me to take an mri. I should not skip, you are correct, I will do it every night before sleeping.sleeping.
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Woah, isn't that a high dose ? Don't mean to sound alarmist. Genuinely curious.
Yes. Was it because of a dislocation, subluxation or another injury?
I've had routine subluxations during climbing. Every time I've gotten injured, my last words have been "watch me get injured". Unlike some other muscles, shoulder injuries are rarely sudden. 100% of the time, Bad sleep + Cold body + Stupidity = Shoulder injury/
Strengthening my rotator cuff + scapula has helped a lot. I do a bunch of cable exercises with low weights for my shoulder. Internal rotation, external rotation, face pulls & dead hangs -> arch hangs, cat-camels, scapular shrugs. For standard exercises, I've moved to using dumb-bells exclusively. It recruits stabilizers and makes it easy to bail from dangerous situations.
Yeah, highest you get, anything beyond this is obtained by taking smaller doses together
Subluxation I guess. Please do recommend the exercises you do, climbing requires shoulders to be ok. In my case, I already had a bad left shoulder that would make noises and move in the socket, I kept doing super deep Pullovers to failure and ended up having a partial tear on my healthy shoulder.
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