Sidelined Again

March 5, 2009

From time to time, my aging body likes to remind me of what my limits are by breaking. I injured my knee at jiu-jitsu a while ago, and during a session of touch football with some coworkers it popped again. My knee decided to zig when I zagged.

So now I’ve got a cool gangsta lean, but I’m out of training for at least a month. To pass the time, I’ve been watching grappling vids and researching things like stretching. Unfortunately, about the only thing that does for me is make me want to go train.

My wife has noticed that I’ve been fidgeting a lot more when I’m sitting watching TV. I shake my legs when I’m bored. It’s a pet peeve of hers and it drives her nuts. I think it’s a bunch of bottled up energy that I can’t expel by training.

So I’ve decided to start doing pull-ups and push-ups. It helps me get rid of that pent up energy and keeps my upper body in shape while the rest of me heals up. I do them semi-regularly even when I’m not injured, but it seems like there’s a different result when you put in daily diligence. Keeping that upper body mass will hopefully help to allay weight gain. I suppose I should stop eating cake and burritos as well. That could help.

Other things I’ve been doing: