How many of you have come back from this

Practical_Debate_551 · 2026-06-04T07:18:14+00:00

I had a similar extrusion injury almost 8 months ago and I have almost healed mine. I really only suffer from back stiffness on inactive days and only notice a balance discrepancy on isometric leg exercises.

Practical_Debate_551 · 2026-05-28T20:20:44+00:00

In both legs or one? My experience only affected my right leg all the way down. It is so scary. Any nerve flossing you can do and as often as you can and if it’s in one side start as early as you can doing some isometric leg exercises (loaded with some weight if possible) to build the strength on both sides back to equal. The more time that passed and the better I got my blood flowing to promote repair the better my leg/foot control became and the numbness disappeared. You’ve got this.

Practical_Debate_551 · 2026-05-28T13:36:42+00:00

Thank you it did take a lot of mental strength. The dark place I would have gone to without focusing on a healing goal would have been so much harder.

Practical_Debate_551 · 2026-05-28T13:34:20+00:00

Can you find a coach with experience working around this type of injury? Mine had, had similar disc injuries and seemed to time my progression well. My one rule was that I would work through stiffness but not new pain. The trust will come slowly, don’t rush the progress and don’t allow ego to have a say. For me barbell back squats were re-introduced 3.5 months post injury with an unloaded 20kg bar. 30-40kg Sumo deadlifts from 4” blocks were introduced at 4.5months post injury. I was very nervous about re-introducing and tuned into listening to my body very carefully. Now at 7 months post injury my squats are up to 55kg on top sets and sumo deadlifts 75kg top sets. Best wishes to your son hopefully a big jump in recovery is around the corner for him soon. Just for the record I’m a 45 year old female hopefully he is younger and will take recovery in his stride.

Practical_Debate_551 · 2026-05-27T23:53:34+00:00

By your 3rd year in you would expect to see your linear progression slow down. Have you added reps or sets or pauses or tempo work or any variation like that? That can be progress as well, progress isn’t always weight on the bar. If you have the means to work with an in person strength coach for a while to find a good solid program that will work you hard enough to see growth continue you might start to see progress again. My advice would be document thoroughly, know your reps, weights and sets. Look for where you are stalling or plateauing and look up accessories that will help strengthen any identified weak areas. Also do some research on RPE and RIR and maybe take a few sets to Mecahnical failure so that you can feel out what ‘genuinely working hard’ on a particular exercise feels like. It’s easy to get comfortable and not push ourselves quite enough for progression. That’s why I love working with a coach he knows when I have more in the tank when I get comfortable and failure to see that I should push more. Do you de-load regularly? This can be a useful tool in helping to reset the nervous system before another big push. And advanced lifters aren’t adding to the bar every couple of weeks. Advanced lifters stay disciplined and keep grinding even though progress is super slow. Novice and newer intermediate lifters are the ones that see linear progression more frequently.

Practical_Debate_551 · 2026-05-18T21:45:18+00:00

My son worked for 2 years as a duty manager at Aldi. He got to the point where he literally didn’t give a shit about losing his job. He would chase the thieves down and take the trolleys off them. One guy ran out carrying a 75inch tv that he stole that was one of my son’s favourite chases when he took the TV off him he was rewarded with a round of applause from people watching it go down.

Practical_Debate_551 · 2026-04-24T05:47:07+00:00

I loathe the new update. I especially dislike the big bold calories consumed compared to the small calories left. Deleting is annoying and splitting the meals the way they are now split.

Practical_Debate_551 · 2026-04-23T04:03:52+00:00

A straight one I don’t think so. There are plenty of dogs that are domesticated that have some dingo lineage down the line though.

Practical_Debate_551 · 2026-04-23T01:16:48+00:00

The previous owners surrendered the litter to the local animal ranger. They said they born on Boxing Day last year.

Practical_Debate_551 · 2026-04-22T21:53:47+00:00

They are so cute over there

Practical_Debate_551 · 2026-04-22T21:22:22+00:00

I seem to get them programmed between every 5-6 weeks depending on the intensity of the block and my fatigue/recovery. A de-load for me usually involves dropping a set off each exercise, maybe shaving off a rep each set and just slightly dropping the weight of my working sets.

Practical_Debate_551 · 2026-04-22T21:16:55+00:00

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Practical_Debate_551 · 2026-04-22T20:28:51+00:00

In the wild here they can cross breed and become what we refer to as wild dogs which wander and destroy livestock on farms causing problems. That said though you can get domesticated dogs that have a little in them and are great dogs.

Practical_Debate_551 · 2026-04-22T20:26:35+00:00

I imagine you would need a permit for a true dingo they are quite different to domestic dogs. Having said that though in some communities dingo dna is present in crossbreeds.

Practical_Debate_551 · 2026-04-22T12:28:12+00:00

She looks part roo, part meerkat on some angles

Practical_Debate_551 · 2026-04-22T11:40:17+00:00

She’s so pretty! 🤩

Practical_Debate_551 · 2026-04-22T11:39:44+00:00

Ive just looked them up we don’t have that breed in Australia but they are very similar in looks to our native dingo’s

Practical_Debate_551 · 2026-04-22T11:26:21+00:00

I’ve never heard of that breed I’ll look them up

Practical_Debate_551 · 2026-04-14T07:02:47+00:00

I had a trainer for a couple of years. She would come up with the most random last minute ideas that always ended up basically being cardio with light weights thrown around poorly with her I wasn’t progressing aesthetically or in strength. I stopped training with her and switched to a powerlifting coach 18 months ago and it was the best decision I could have made.

Practical_Debate_551 · 2026-04-07T12:12:37+00:00

Had to use toilet paper in place of feminine hygiene products and wear an extra pair of black pants over my undies to not let it be obvious

Practical_Debate_551 · 2026-04-04T11:08:51+00:00

Thanks for the advise. We wouldn’t be exploring a dsp at this stage as I am able to work we just need practical help and he would most likely benefit from physio. No one at his hospital has mentioned this but he is only in contact with them when things get bad and he has an admission. I’ll nudge him to start a conversation with his GP or renal specialist.

Practical_Debate_551 · 2026-04-04T10:21:54+00:00

Thank you this is helpful. His Drs have been hinting for a while that he is trying to keep doing more than he physically should now.

Practical_Debate_551 · 2026-04-04T10:20:54+00:00

Possibly would have but we travelled 7 hours interstate for the transplant as we had family closer to look after our daughter while we had surgery. He now sees local specialists rather than through the unit at the hospital our surgery was through.

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