Muscular/Skeletal Inbalance Analysis
Today I had an appointment to have a Muscular/Skeletal Inbalance Analysis. After they do the analysis they recommend yoga poses to address the issues and make a video tape of the poses for you to use at home.
At first I think the person working with me thought I was some sort of nut. He wanted to know what problems I had and I couldn't really tell him anything specific. I just felt confident I had issues.
Turns out I was right. Apparently the muscles on the left side of my body are all so tight that it has made my left side shorter than my right. It's rather funny as he was talking me through my "issues" and I'm just standing listening. And then he points out that the way I was standing with my left foot all sort of funny was because of just what he was talking about. He also noticed it when I was walking.
We went through a series of poses and in one I couldn't get my hips straight when I raised my left leg up and back. He actually had to hold my hips in place as I couldn't do it on my own. Who knew!
He also said that I don't breathe well although he said that was pretty common in endurance sport athletes. I need to practice breathing in and out from my chest in a more relaxed fashion. In reality he felt that I just generally needed to relax in all things (how he thinks I'm going to get everything accomplished in a day if I relax is beyond me).
This whole left side inbalance thing explains a lot about my skiing though. I can V1 great on my right side but I really struggle with the left side V1. I can do it but it never is comfortable. The person doing the analysis said that being so scrunched on my left side would affect my balance and skiing is all about balance.
Enough about how unbalanced I am . . . . I would also like to comment on people being weird. Yesterday I was in the bathroom at work changing out of shorts and into my dress clothes for work. A random person said "oooh there's a bike commuter in here" in this cutesy voice like I was some sort of cute baby animal at the zoo. Then at the end of the day I was back in the bathroom to change back and someone random person said "be careful out there." But it was just rainy lightly. I wasn't riding into some kind of monsoon. Must be something in the drinking water at my building making people crazy.
Badger Cross Race Update: I don't actually have much new to report today. I do have a few leads for some potential new sponsors. Hopefully one or two will pan out. I have this great concept for a potential sponsor for the junior race but it's a long shot. We did get the okay to close the driveway at the new Verona library so we can continue to use the road up to the shelter for the race course. That's a huge relief.
At first I think the person working with me thought I was some sort of nut. He wanted to know what problems I had and I couldn't really tell him anything specific. I just felt confident I had issues.
Turns out I was right. Apparently the muscles on the left side of my body are all so tight that it has made my left side shorter than my right. It's rather funny as he was talking me through my "issues" and I'm just standing listening. And then he points out that the way I was standing with my left foot all sort of funny was because of just what he was talking about. He also noticed it when I was walking.
We went through a series of poses and in one I couldn't get my hips straight when I raised my left leg up and back. He actually had to hold my hips in place as I couldn't do it on my own. Who knew!
He also said that I don't breathe well although he said that was pretty common in endurance sport athletes. I need to practice breathing in and out from my chest in a more relaxed fashion. In reality he felt that I just generally needed to relax in all things (how he thinks I'm going to get everything accomplished in a day if I relax is beyond me).
This whole left side inbalance thing explains a lot about my skiing though. I can V1 great on my right side but I really struggle with the left side V1. I can do it but it never is comfortable. The person doing the analysis said that being so scrunched on my left side would affect my balance and skiing is all about balance.
Enough about how unbalanced I am . . . . I would also like to comment on people being weird. Yesterday I was in the bathroom at work changing out of shorts and into my dress clothes for work. A random person said "oooh there's a bike commuter in here" in this cutesy voice like I was some sort of cute baby animal at the zoo. Then at the end of the day I was back in the bathroom to change back and someone random person said "be careful out there." But it was just rainy lightly. I wasn't riding into some kind of monsoon. Must be something in the drinking water at my building making people crazy.
Badger Cross Race Update: I don't actually have much new to report today. I do have a few leads for some potential new sponsors. Hopefully one or two will pan out. I have this great concept for a potential sponsor for the junior race but it's a long shot. We did get the okay to close the driveway at the new Verona library so we can continue to use the road up to the shelter for the race course. That's a huge relief.
posted by MadCross at 12:45 PM
2 Comments:
Once you recognize that people make comments because supporting the status quo makes them feel better about their own lack of fitness and fear of being different, it won't bother you. No one made any progress in the world by supporting the status quo. It's too bad, though. The last place I worked the example I set got a lot of people into cycling and bike commuting. It just took someone to have the balls to just do it.
I think what's weird about the comments is that there are lots of bike commuters here. The bike racks are very full even on rainy days. And for the record WisDOT is not just about building roads (although I fear those women were maybe not in the non-motorized part of the department).
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