Here is the day at Brunel University, acually welled up a bit 1st time I saw this. Don't know why? Guess I'm still in denial....
I'll accept it eventually.
It was a quality day.
2012 is not a crazy idea anymore!!!
Saturday, October 17, 2009
PARALYMPIC POTENTIAL DAY (GB)
Friday, October 2, 2009
PARALYMPICS 2012!
MORNING!
If you've been following my adventures in rehab over the last 14 months you'l know my knee is mullered!
Anyway I love basketball, so decided to finallly bite the bullet and contact England Wheelchair basketball about my situation. Next thing I know I'm invited along to the Paralympic potential day @ Brunel to try out for all sports I qualify for!!?
Anyway, to cut a long story short, I had to go to each individual sport on the day & they assessed if my condition was deemed bad enough for their sport.
THIS WAS DEFINATELY A WIN WIN SITUATION AS IF I QUALIFY, COOL.
IF NOT, EVEN BETTER AS IT MEANS I'M NOT DISABLED ENOUGH, ALSO COOL!
I'll let you know how it went, soon.
THE SPEED FREAK
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
SO CLOSE...
TIME: MONDAY 8am.
LOCATION: Matthews & Allen PHYSIO, Guildford, UK.
LEG STRENGTH TESTING !
*Gotta get quad dominant on my injured weak leg to be able to try to run!
Really optomistic about this testing session & since I returned from USA I am confident I could not have trained harder on my leg rehab to increase the strength. We'll see what the results say, fingers crossed!
It has been 4 weeks since my last test session where I had not improved my left quad muscle for 6 weeks.
Anyway gave it my all in the testing and got some new results:
LEFT LEG
*Hamstring (no work) IMPROVED/PLATEAU AS STRONG AS THE GOOD LEG FOR 1st TIME! Result.
*Quadracept (1/4 squats, HEAVY) STILLL WEAKER THAN THE HAMSTRING! Dammn.
I need a 3:2 ratio with the quads dominant.
This was a kick in the guts short term, but in the long term it is good news as my Quad had improved from my training by about 50% in 4 weeks! Thats over 10% a week! Gotta keep that habit going & the only reson its not dominant is due to the hamstring improving (which shouldn't happpen again).
Was told to check back in 4 weeks time for testing again (so I booked in for 3 weeks! ;))
Trying to grab the last bit of sun with maybe a little sprint/run on the track before its too late...
SO CLOSE...
Thanks for your continuing support.
THE SPEED FREAK
LOCATION: Matthews & Allen PHYSIO, Guildford, UK.
LEG STRENGTH TESTING !
*Gotta get quad dominant on my injured weak leg to be able to try to run!
Really optomistic about this testing session & since I returned from USA I am confident I could not have trained harder on my leg rehab to increase the strength. We'll see what the results say, fingers crossed!
It has been 4 weeks since my last test session where I had not improved my left quad muscle for 6 weeks.
Anyway gave it my all in the testing and got some new results:
LEFT LEG
*Hamstring (no work) IMPROVED/PLATEAU AS STRONG AS THE GOOD LEG FOR 1st TIME! Result.
*Quadracept (1/4 squats, HEAVY) STILLL WEAKER THAN THE HAMSTRING! Dammn.
I need a 3:2 ratio with the quads dominant.
This was a kick in the guts short term, but in the long term it is good news as my Quad had improved from my training by about 50% in 4 weeks! Thats over 10% a week! Gotta keep that habit going & the only reson its not dominant is due to the hamstring improving (which shouldn't happpen again).
Was told to check back in 4 weeks time for testing again (so I booked in for 3 weeks! ;))
Trying to grab the last bit of sun with maybe a little sprint/run on the track before its too late...
SO CLOSE...
Thanks for your continuing support.
THE SPEED FREAK
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