#elbowgate

no pain for about two weeks

comfortably snatched up to 48 kg on monday

strict pull ups on tuesday

butterfly pull ups!!

i was talking to a girl at the gym who nearly completely ruptured both her RCL and her UCL after slipping in a handstand walk a little while ago, because i wanted to know what rehab she did. i'm doing bicep curls and hammer curls, and she said that's basically what she did too (she did tricep stuff too but since i've been back pressing for a bit i figured i probably don't need to do that). but then had the funniest discussion where she was like, did you get a scan, and i was like, no i palpated myself and then "diagnosed" because i figured i'd be assigned the same rehab regardless and i knew it wasn't a complete rupture, and she asked if i was a physio and i was like nooooooo this is very much outside my scope of practice as an exercise scientist........

BUT another girl was like, oh i'm trained as a physio but i'm not practicing at the moment, and she basically ran me through a bunch of tests and said that since i'm not feeling any pain at the moment and i haven't for over a week, and since i don't have any instability (i've been doing handstands just fine), i'm probably good to try a pull up. she reckons it might not have even been a tear, it might have been an irritation of a ligament or tendon, but i should be good to try some loaded flexion. which is exciting but i'm also a little nervous to try.