8-30-17 (Wednesday) Medicine Ball Tossing + Foam Rolling.
My lower back is still quite painful. I don't feel much change from yesterday. I went for a second round of treatment. This time, there was a noticeable difference following the treatment. For a time, I was able to stand and walk upright. But it didn't last too long. But the little improvement gave me hope. I spent most of the day on my back on the floor with my foam roller.
As I watched American Ninja Warrior, I felt the itch to do SOMETHING, so I decided to play with my 5kg Medicine Ball. Basically what I did was to, while lying on my foam roller, do a chest pass at the ceiling and catch the ball. I would also place the MB between my knees and do a kind of leg raise for my abs. I tried to do Bridges as well, but it was too painful and I could hardly get my butt off the ground. I also did one arm Floor Flies. Holding the ball in one hand with my arm stiff and straight towards the ceiling, lower the ball to one side, then raise it back up, then pass it to the other hand and the repeat. But the Chest passes were what really gave me a nice little pump in my arms. I did those moves over and over again during ANW. During the commercials, I would exclusively do chest passes. Non-stop for the whole commercial break. That is 150 seconds of pushing a 5kg Medicine Ball up to the ceiling and catching it again. The two times I actually counted the reps I got 77 tosses the first time, then 101 reps the second time. Good arm pump! I also got a pretty good sweat on. No HRM.
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