Unfortunately for me, I'm still carrying a bit of an injury from before the holiday. I fell incorrectly out of seoi otoshi, landing square on my back. At the time, I thought I was just winded, but as time has gone on, the pain in my upper back hasn't gone away in over 12 weeks.
What I really need is to see a medical professional and take some time out from almost all physical activities. Especially jtisu, which has a lot of impact in it. I suspect that what I need is a couple of weeks of rest, followed by a no impact or low impact sport which works my upper back, like swimming (especially with a pull-float).
Recovery is hard, because it means breaking routine, it can mean altering or abandoning goals (especially time-sensitive goals), it feels like giving up.
I am doing the bull headed and stupid thing. I am seeing my goals through to the end. If I am capable, if my techniques are up to scratch, I will be grading. The four horsemen could show up, and I wouldn't care. As long as the sensei performing the grading and someone to uke show up, I'll be there.
This makes me feel like less of a failure, but I feel capable, since I've been training on my injury (in fact, I think it's made me more away of my breakfalling technique, especially forwards left) quite hard recently in preparation for grading.
Anyways, here's my stats of late:
- Weight: 59.5kg
- Body Fat %: 2.90% to 4.90% (My reading was 3.5mm, averaged over 4 measurements, which wasn't listed on my handy scale)
- Bicep: 31cm
Progress pics... I actually need to buy a camera, since I don't have a camera phone.
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