Drat!

**Geoff Withnell** · 30th November 12, 05:56 AM

I suppose it's a good news/bad news situation. The good news? The tear in my lower biceps attachment is healing. At 64, with the warranty expired, thats VERY good news. And I can start working it again. The bad news? I can start working it again at the 5 pound curl level. And move up in weight very slooowly. No way am I going to be able to throw in 2013. Oh well, SAMS Post of the Potomac has wanted me to be Sgt of the Guard for their Color Guard at games anyway, and I really couldn't do both.

**New World Czech** · 30th November 12, 06:27 AM

Glad to hear you are healing. You should take it slow. I recomend the 3/4 to 1lb amber to dark brown liquid weights with a few 1 to 2oz thrown in for good measure, reps are important. Hope to see you tomorrow.

**auld argonian** · 30th November 12, 07:02 AM

Laughing about the bit about the warrantee expiring 'cause I just turned 60 and that's what I keep telling people: things fall apart right after the warrantee expires.

I've been doing some very light lifting for the past couple of months just because I need the endorphin rush you get from it. When I think about the programs we engaged in when I was in my teens and twenties, this regimen seems like a joke but I have to remind myself that sixty year old rotator cuffs can only take so much and I don't want to end up like some of my overenthusiastic contemporaries who can't lift a beer up past their shoulders. Those of us playing the back nine are the ones who realize that we've got time and should take it slow...thus, move up slowly...you'll be bench pressing 350 by the time you're 80.

Best

AA

**Alan H** · 30th November 12, 12:39 PM

Yeah, good news, bad news. Well, go slow, and be consistent. Lift those 5 pound weights. Then, in January move up to 10 pounders. Then, in February, 15 pounders. The end of March will see you with 20 pounders. May will see you with 25 or 30 pounders, and at that point you can actually start thinking about throwing, I bet.

Don't count out a late summer or Fall 2013 Games, just yet.

Besides, curls have no place in a throwing regime. Then again, biceps attachments DO have a place, so there you go! However, nothing about your biceps attachment is keeping you from squatting. Or doing sit-ups... or box jumps, or running/hopping stadium steps, or any number of great things, all of which will help you throw farther. TRUTH.

**auld argonian** · 30th November 12, 12:44 PM

I seem to remember a joke that was on the TV series Bonanza: that Hoss (Dan Blocker) started out when he was ten years old lifting a baby calf every day and kept lifting it as it grew older and was finally able to lift a full sized cow....if that's not taking a gradual approach to it, I don't know what is.

Plus....if it's a dairy cow, you get free milk as well....but I'd check your local zoning regulations before you head down to the stockyards,

Best

AA

**Alan H** · 30th November 12, 01:39 PM

Originally Posted by auld argonian

I seem to remember a joke that was on the TV series Bonanza: that Hoss (Dan Blocker) started out when he was ten years old lifting a baby calf every day and kept lifting it as it grew older and was finally able to lift a full sized cow....if that's not taking a gradual approach to it, I don't know what is.

Plus....if it's a dairy cow, you get free milk as well....but I'd check your local zoning regulations before you head down to the stockyards,

Best

AA

**Pleater** · 30th November 12, 01:58 PM

I remember what my hips thought about my deciding to buy a trampoline - but it was just a matter of starting slow and building up to where I didn't have to count any more, one session at a time.

Then I bought a bicycle.

Maybe this year you won't be throwing, but there are other things you might do to keep the body active whilst you are healing the broken bit, and it might benefit from the oxygen rushing about because of the activity.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

**Geoff Withnell** · 30th November 12, 05:07 PM

The curls aren't for throwing, they're for therapy. The biceps is the not main muscle for almost anything in SHA, but it is a stabilizer
muscle for almost any thing you do involving arms or chest. I have a certified trainer with lots of rehab experience, and I will be
following her direction. She wants me to throw, eventually, it would be one hell of an advert for her.

Originally Posted by Alan H

Yeah, good news, bad news. Well, go slow, and be consistent. Lift those 5 pound weights. Then, in January move up to 10 pounders. Then, in February, 15 pounders. The end of March will see you with 20 pounders. May will see you with 25 or 30 pounders, and at that point you can actually start thinking about throwing, I bet.

Don't count out a late summer or Fall 2013 Games, just yet.

Besides, curls have no place in a throwing regime. Then again, biceps attachments DO have a place, so there you go! However, nothing about your biceps attachment is keeping you from squatting. Or doing sit-ups... or box jumps, or running/hopping stadium steps, or any number of great things, all of which will help you throw farther. TRUTH.