20 Feb 2013-Even up the Score

The Morning trg session was pretty much a scratch. i got some shit done but i was a side ways mess. The Dog has woken me up the past two mornings at 3:30 am to go poop. The morning before this trg session i ended up sleeping on the couch because after she came in she was being beligerent about going back to bed. So i slept on the couch and she slept with me. Otherwise me and the girlfriend would have gotten no sleep.

Rev hyper 4 x 15
Seated OH Press
1 x 15 x bar /65 /85 /95
Standing OH Press 
1 x 15 x bar
The i did a bunch of lower body stretching in prep for the testing at the hospital in the afternoon.

So i did not get any cool pics. I go back in 3 mths and i will take the camera then. It was alot of fun to do this again. A little nervous because of course i don't know what exactly is going to happen with the recovering leg. The Patella was a little sore but nothing not worth working through for the testing and overall i don't think it affected anything.

I am sure they used a Biodex machine with Ivan Drago

So i get hooked up to the Biodex mach on my good leg. Essentially it is a really expensive leg extension machine that will not stress my ACL and works the Hamstrings and Quadriceps directly. I get strapped in at the chest, waist, thigh and shin.

Do some test runs to make sure i am in a good spot. Then the add resistance to see if i can take what the machine can dish out.

From there it was 2 practice runs at 75% of my max strength and speed.

Then it is 2 practice runs at 100%.

We look at the results and if the testers and i am convinced the numbers are decent we go ahead with the test. 6 runs of Extending and curling my leg as fast, violent and strong as i can muster.
I don't know what the units are but i broke 200 on all my test runs. which is better than my test runs before surgery.

Then they change protocols slightly, the machine lightens up and i  simple do 6 Ext /Contractions as fast as i can the resistance is 50% of what it was.

I spoke briefly to the testers about the Conjugate method and this testing protocol is very similar. The lady testing me did not want to confuse me with the scientific garbly gook.

Switch to my recovering leg and do the same thing all over. I did not break 100 with the recovering leg. It is cool to see on the results my Hamstring contraction is more than my extension.
Normally it is 2:1 roughly for Extension : Contraction.

Oddly my recovering leg is 31 (don't know the units) in weight and my healthy leg is 28.

The test did irritate my patella slightly but 20 min of icing when i got home and everything was fine.

Keep Moving Forward, Keep Getting Strong(er)