Yep, it’s a very old joke. Some people attach it to something Yogi Berra once said. But who knows.
Here’s a few off the top of my head that I rotate with:
Downward dog
PVC shoulder dislocates (this could be hard depending on your shoulder)
Wall extensions
Rotator cuff trigger point
There several other yoga stretches that would help, maybe @ClassicMom98 knows a few that will help your shoulder mobility.
Time to “torture” your opponents and give your right shoulder a break. You’re a step ahead of everyone else with being left-handed.
Thanks. I found some on-line too, and I’ve already done some.
I am going to make an appt at the ortho also. I hope I’m wrong, but this feels worse than just overwork.
We have a bike riding trip we paid $$$$ bucks for coming up in August, and I really hope this I jury or whatever doesn’t impact that.
The first one here is maybe my fav of the whole trip!
A 3 lb bench press PR tonight. Bench was the only lift that I hadn’t PR’ed on in a VERY long while.
Also, I did a 6x6 of back squats at 70% of 1RM and, since I got a late start, I finished with a 1-mile “sprint” on the curved manual treadmill.
Single answer post.
Other activities:
Total official distance is 192 miles. I suspect we walked close to 200. I will share complete fitbit stats once i am home.
Doing it again is an interesting question. I would but likely won’t. There are too many other long distance walks we want to do. We have also talked about the pros/cons of a point to point distance walk vs going someplace with tons of day hikes nearby. There will lots of conversations over the few months about what is next
I love that you are going to that game!
Wow - the last thing you sent, with the woman and the ball, seems to have hit right where I’m sore. The good news is maybe it really is muscular and not torn or anything. I see ortho doc tomorrow, just to make sure. (I may have said already, but I’ve had frozen shoulder, an impingement injury and bursitis in this shoulder, so I want to be careful. Happy to suffer through pain as long as I’m not damaging anything).
AND, I reached out to my pickleball group, and a couple of people have already volunteered to play with me while I figure out how to play left-handed.
Yes, that is the one that helps me loosen up my shoulders the most. I get some tightness in there, so I really smash it in there, by laying on it, and it just makes everything work better.
A LAX ball will work, but I use a mobility ball like Rogue’s Supernova. Comes in two sizes, IIRC.
I had some pain in my left shoulder for some reason recently, my husband has applied a Tiger Balm, the pain is now almost non existent.
So this morning I went for a quick swim, just 30 minutes. It’s nice.
I haven’t done much garden lately because there’s nothing to plant or move, that’s where I get most of my exercises from. I must do at least 1000+ steps every day.
Yesterday was a transit day and i still ended up with 11.5k steps. Today we explored Kew Gardens and Kew Palace. I ended up with 19k of steps.
The cool thing was the 253 steps to the top of the Great Pagoda–built in 1762 and restored in 2018.
The other cool thing are the lilypads. Just this year, they figured out that one of these was a new species.
I’ve been to Kew Gardens many times but don’t recall seeing the Great Pagoda there.
Today I went swimming for 40 minutes, somehow I don’t think of it as exercise, not vigorous enough, just relaxing and swimming.
I played PB left handed this morning. We “practiced” for 45 or so minutes, then played a game with my right hand. I won. Then I played with my left hand. I won! Rest assured, I’m not “that good,” but the guy I was playing with is a good hitter, but doesn’t move that well, so does much better when playing doubles.
The doc said he doesn’t think anything serious is wrong with my shoulder. I opted for no x-ray, no cortisone shot and no PT, but I am doing the exercises and stretches I did last time I went to PT (for frozen shoulder) plus others, included some from here (Thanks sushi).
If it doesn’t get better by exercising within a couple of weeks, I’ll consider a shot or PT.
It’s nice to be ambidextrous. 
When I do play basketball, which is rare nowadays, I actually prefer using my weak hand. When I’d play a game of H-O-R-S-E, if I were behind or losing, I would switch to my weak hand and shoot with it. And I’d almost always win the game. The good old days.
Anyway, in the NBA, they call it “load management.” In my mind, you’re just relieving the stress on your bad shoulder, at least temporarily, by using your left (strong) hand.
Unfortunately, as we age, we all should be employing shoulder exercises to keep them pain free and with as much mobility as our bodies can muster. I do shoulder mobility work almost every day. The other thing that I do is roll my back out almost every day too.
I went for an hour of swimming, is really pleasant. My left shoulder is acting up again, I think this is the stage before it snaps to the right location.
Checking in - Day 25. It’s been a good week. My running has been coming along. Knocked a minute off my Wednesday route (that I’ve done often the last couple of months). Thursday-Friday were slower, but much better than the last couple of Thursday-Fridays. Last week of Phase 1 lifting. Small groups (3-4) of exercises. Repeat each group 2x for 15 reps before moving to the next group. I bumped up on several of the exercises and it still felt good.
Tomorrow is my long(er) run. I may go for 11 miles. I used to run 15-16 every Friday morning before work for ~20 years… I wonder if I’ll ever do that again. It really doesn’t matter I guess.
Now just to fight the covid paranoia yet again. Several people in my office sniffling/snorting/coughing, and one person is out sick - with what, who knows. We’re still not allowed to know.
I made my 11 miles this morning. It went pretty well. It was a mostly flat route, just one big (almost 1 mile long) hill from the river back up to my house. But I got the to trail head (almost 3 miles) 1-1:30 faster than I have lately. And while it is still slower and shorter than the old days, I figured if I had to go 4 more miles, I could have. Progress.
Then it was an ab video and then cardio flow. Next week I’ll likely cut the run a little shorter, since the cardio flow is 50% longer. It moves from 4 reps per exercise to 6. I like the short ones. I was done in < 20 min today.
Last night we did the simple 1 mile each way walk to dinner. My wife and I are both dealing with some minor lingering soreness from the hike.
Plan for tonight is to go to the place that is 2 miles each way.
@ClassicMom98 - that’s an impressive run, especially with a 1 mile hill!
I did 45 minutes of swimming, just relaxing, not very vigorous. But this week I will be able to swim everyday.
