Suzanne~Road to USAs~Vegas Baby!

[Suzanne]

Got copy of MRI
1. AC joint and lateral acromial deformity of the supraspinatus

2. 3mm small incomplete full thickness tear at the distal supraspinatus tendon insertion adjacent laminar interstitial tendinitis or tear of the remainder of the supraspinatus tendon and involving the infraspinatus tendon fibers. Bursal surface and internal substance tendinitis at the infraspinatus myotendinous joint. Subscapularus tendinitis.

3. no labrial tear

4 long head bicep tendinitis

[essmonet03]

heard about it all through Gail...DAMN those are alot of big words... takes me back to exercise physiology class in college. But I know you will pull through this Suzanne! See ya soon!

[RealLilSwole]

Are you going to have to have surgery girl??

[Suzanne]

heard about it all through Gail...DAMN those are alot of big words... takes me back to exercise physiology class in college. But I know you will pull through this Suzanne! See ya soon!

thanks!

Are you going to have to have surgery girl??

don't know yet haven't seen ortho but i am pretty sure i wouldn't need it. It isnt' like it is super painful. The only reason worried about training nwo is making it worse. I have been able to do all my training with no pain in shoulder jsut a weird weak feeling in tricep on overhead presses

[Suzanne]

Sat

Went for x-ray and MRI of left shoulder

"training"
Warmed up w/rotator cuff exercises

Wouldn't actually call this a wo more like going through the motions. weights we about half what i usually do.

I know that if i stop everything i will get really tight and feel like shit

Standing single side low cable row
4 sets 15

Cg seated cable row
60x15 4 sets

Reverse grip cable row just wider than shoulder
60x15 3 sets
70x15

Bi preacher machine
30x15
40x15 forearm on right tightening up
40x15
40x15

[Suzanne]

Sun Legs!!! Finally a body part I can hit all out!!!

Think legs gonna hurt the last 3 leg days were heavy not volume superset

Leg ext triple drop ss rear leg up lunges hips forward ss seated leg press
70x15 90x12 110x10 ss 25s x 15/ leg ss 210x15
80x15 100x12 120x10 ss 25s x 15/leg ss 225x15
90x15 110x12 130x10 ss 25s x 15/leg ss 240x15

Leg press ss hammer single leg ext
12 plates x 15 ss quarter inside 12/leg
16 plates x 12 ss quater inside and dime outside x 12/leg
20 plates x 1 then took too deep and went ALL the way down n stuck lol had to unrack almost all the plates
18 x 10 ss 35 inside/leg

hammer seated ham ss ball roll ins
70x15 ss 20
70x15 ss 20
70x15 ss 20

Lying ham curl ss Freemotion squat pause at bottom 2 count
100x15 ss #16(220)x15
110x15 ss #17(240)x15
130x15 ss #20(300)x15

tanned

I am gonna hit legs twice per week for nwo since i can't really lift hard on any other parts. I mentioned it to jeremy and said I better be careful we finally got upper body to catch up and he said "You have put on so much on your upper you can get your legs as big as you want now" yay!!!

[Suzanne]

Saturday was our cheat
Macaroni Grill - crab stuffed mushrooms, lots of bread, lasagna, 1.5 glasses of wine
Girl scout cookies - dulce de leche, lemon, pb patties
Peanut M & Ms LOTS
Cold Stone Cookie ice cream sandwich

Jeremy is hoping we don't need to lower my food due to my lack of WOs. My cals are currently 2950 and 280 lower on nonWO days since I drop the PWO karbolyn and shake. But he is watching my weight and pictures carefully.

Today is supposed to be shoulder day so i am just going to do rehaby stuff at home and try very light stuff with bands or light weights. I have 2 strengths of bands and DBs from 3-45lbs

[Suzanne]

well I am symmetrical and don't favor one shoulder they are both torn

Funny thing when i went to that IDIOT orhto in 2008 wanting to know if i had tendinitis or rotator issues he said and i QUOTE "you can't have a torn rotator in both shoulders" i said why not i do the same thing with both i am not a pitcher? he had no answer

So insurance is a pain in order to get authorization of go out of medical group gonna take at least a week. Plus the place they are trying to send me specifically said doesn't not take our HMO so referral lady wanted me to verify WTF isn't that what she is paid to do? Als0o said may make me go to same idoit office then prove why i need to go elsewhere.

So in order to not drag this out for even longer we made appt with diff dr at that office but the only appt they had between now and after the 15th was friday so no arnold for me

[Suzanne]

Got results of left shoulder MRI and no idea what i have

1. Early focal glenohumeral joint degerative change involving the anterior/inferior glenohumeral joint with subchondral cystic change, osteophytes and marked anterior/inferior glenohumeral ligament sprain. Further evaluation with a MR arthofram is recommended to assess fot the integrity of the labrum as well as for the integrity of the articular cartilage in this location.

2. Focal articular surface small partial tear of the anterior distal supraspinatus tendon superimposed upon mild tendinosis. articular surface abnormality through the anterior distal tendon measuring 4mmx4mm.

3. AC joint synovitis w/out ligament injury

4. supraspinatus ganglion cyst 1.5 cm x 0.3 cm x 1.0 cm

[KBigz81]

geesh girl...I feel bad for you. And how is it not possible to tear the rotator cuff in each arm?? That doesn't even make sense.
I'm not sure if you're going to stay in the Chicago area but one of the best shoulder ortho's in Central Illinois is Dr Merkley with Midwest Orthopaedic. He did my torn labrum in my right shoulder last August and I'm already 100%. He also did my husbands torn rotator cuff and bone spur and he was back in the gym within 4 months. Shoulder surgery is sooo painful though but I'm stronger in that arm than I was before and have been in years. My labrum had been torn since highschool from softball.
Keep your head up Suz..

[Suzanne]

geesh girl...I feel bad for you. And how is it not possible to tear the rotator cuff in each arm?? That doesn't even make sense.
I'm not sure if you're going to stay in the Chicago area but one of the best shoulder ortho's in Central Illinois is Dr Merkley with Midwest Orthopaedic. He did my torn labrum in my right shoulder last August and I'm already 100%. He also did my husbands torn rotator cuff and bone spur and he was back in the gym within 4 months. Shoulder surgery is sooo painful though but I'm stronger in that arm than I was before and have been in years. My labrum had been torn since highschool from softball.
Keep your head up Suz..

Sounds like your ortho did well for both of you :-)


thanks! I have an HMO for insurance so i have zero choice who i see

My fingers are crossed that surgery is not required and that i will be 100% in 74 days so i can start prep and zero muscle loss in the meantime. I am too old to take another year off!

[Suzanne]

wed arms - figured if kept strict form would keep delts of of it
Wide pressdown
30x25
40x20
50x15
60x8 drop 40x8

Single arm reverse pressdown
15x15/arm
15x15/arm
17.5x15/arm
20x15/arm

Skull crushers decline
85x12
90x10
90x10
90x8

Rope
20x15
30x12
30x10
20x15

Freemotion bicep
#7x15
#8x12
#9x12
#10x6 drop #6x6

Ezcurl strict strict
55x9
55x9
55x9
55x9

Seated db curl one side at a time
20x9/arm
20x9/arm
20x9/arm
20x12/arm

Hammer strength preacher
35x15
45x10
46x8

[Suzanne]

Fri Chest/Delts/Tris
after going to Dr and bascially still in limbo except don't need surgery, I am going with train around it. If it hurts don't do it.

Rotator rehab warm up

Hammer incline
25/side x 25
45/side x 20
70/side x 15
90/side x 12
115/side x 7

Leverage flat bench
90x15
115x12
135x10
160x8

Freemotion flyes (on seated chest freemotion)
#6x25
#7x20
#8x15
#9x15

Db laterals
10x15
10x15
10x20
10x20

Icarian machine shoulder press
60x20
80x20
100x15
120x15

Tricep kickback on freemotion
#3x20
#4x20
#5x20

Icarion seated dip machine
Watched rom to make sure not too much on shoulders
120x15
140x15
160x12

[KBigz81]

Thats great to hear about no surgery!!

[Suzanne]

Thats great to hear about no surgery!!

Yes it is! cuz he said if surgery there would be no more competing
but i was thinking how can that be pitcher go back to pitching after rotator surgery. Maybe he just sucks as an Dr lol

Talked to Jeremy, for now we are just reduing cals on the days I don't train so right now only 1 day per week. He doesn't want to make a big changes since we don't want to negatively affect my response to changes when prep starts. He feels the anti-inflammorties are making me hold dome water

Sat Back/Traps/Bis
Rotator warm ups

Stiff arm pulldown
50x20
60x20
70x20
80x15

Pulldown reverse grip
80x15
100x15
120x15
140x10

Rack pulls
195x12
235x10
275x8
295x5

Hammer strength seated row wg
70/side x 15
90/side x 15
115/side x 12

Traps
Hammer strength trap
4 plates x 10
Too wide so i had no rom

Plate ahrugs
45sx15, 15

Freemotion bicep
#7x15
#8x12, 10
#8x8 drop 6x8

90 min dep tissue OUCH OUCH OUCH
she dug the shit out of my pecs and they were hurting form chest WO Friday
Man i need this every week!!!!!!