Muse back!
March 04, 2009 / Wednesday
Integrate
After rescuing me and my bike a couple weekends ago, Aaron posted to MTBR in search of a sports physiologist recommendation for me. Al from Integrate Performance Fitness responded, and offered to do an eval for me at their studio.
When I talked to Al on the phone a few days later, I mentioned that I was also interested in seeing what their Athlete's Edge class was about. Since the eval was so we could look at how I move to try to spot muscle imbalances, we decided that I would do my eval at the class.
Today was the class. We did a circuit of pushups, rolling ball hamstring curls, one legged squats, squats with a medicine ball, squats with a pulley row, and gosh, did I forget a squat? There were also bridges, lunges, planks, and some leg in the air core work, all modified in some way to make us work harder and really get the burn going.
Burn it did, and now, only several hours after the session, the soreness is already setting in.
But much more interesting and useful are the following two findings:
(1) There's something not quite right with my right hip.
I'm not talking about the hip itself, but about the muscles in that area, which are totally out of whack. My balance and flexibility on the right side were noticeably worse than on the left. It flat out hurts to stretch it in certain ways.
(2) There's something not quite right with my hockey shot.
Okay, I knew this already. I've been working on it a bit in my oodles of spare ice time. (It sits right next to that giant oodle of free time in the corner there.) We looked at my shot because we wanted to see how it could be contributing to my hip imbalance. While looking at my shot, my dissatisfaction with its mechanics increased several-fold, and when I got home I went and watched a bunch of videos on what I *should* be doing. (Let me tell you, half of those videos are wrong, wrong, wrong.) I think my downstairs neighbors hate me now, after an evening of hockey stick on carpet sounds from above.
Need to find ice. Now.
Okay, back on topic. I don't know if the out of whack hip is causing my knee problems, but whether it is or not, I want to fix it.
Next Wednesday, I return with my bike, and will spend an hour or so working with Jamii to do an updated and more detailed fitting. They'll also get a chance to see what I'm doing when I'm on the bike. We'll go from there and see what I need to do to (a) get rid of my knee pain and (b) get my right hip back in whack.
I'm looking forward to it. They're fun to work with and seem to really know their stuff. I'll get scrutinized, a good workout, and, if things go well, happy knees.
Maybe I'll even get a better hockey shot.
08:17 PM | Bicycle:Hockey:Injuries
Comments
wow, that's really rad to be able to have someone break down what you're doing to make it feel like *this*.
Posted by: andrea at March 6, 2009 03:36 PM