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Hey! at least someone has some ideas for me lol! I will reseach this topic. My WC won't pay for a Therapist and 3/4 pay won't let me either:) So... But thanks for the heads up, I'll see what I can find out.

I have a particular challenge, and I'd like a little advice on how to overcome it. I'm overweight, and I've bought a bike and have started riding, and slowly changing my diet as to not overload myself. But I'm very interested in total body fitness, I want to shapy my body into something that is in balance (inside and out). Here's my challenge.... I have severe nerve damage on my right arm (Specifically a recently relocated Ulna nerve, a trapped Radial Nerve, neither of which seem to be healing). I cannot pour a glass of tea with my right arm. It's not just pain, which I can usually handle and work through, but it's pain and then muscle shutdown... I just drop stuff sometimes. So, for right now, my right arm is pretty much useless from the Bicept tendon down. To simply do repetitive motion with no weight causes a flair up that gives me spasms and cramps and extreme weakness in my right arm. So here's my quandry... I know how to work my abs, lower back, sides, hips, and down from there... but what in the world could I do with my upper body? I can't do push ups, pull ups, bench, even pulldowns... nada ... I can work my left arm.. but then I wind up looking like.. well... I use one arm more than the other... ) I'm a little Valkempt ... so talk amongst yourselfs.. have some coffee.....

I just had the nerve relocation surgery. I wish I hadn't, but as it was a work injury and they were paying for it, I went along with it. I actually damanged my Ulna and Radial Nerves so they had to repair both areas, now I don't have a 'funny bone' anymore. I've learned a lot about nerves and their relationship to muscles and such. If this persists, I suggest a very involved physical therapist. (If you're in the Arlington TX area.. Dr. Moses is friggen awesome). Sorry for the trouble you're having, but I'm glad to hear that it seems to be getting better! If it starts bothering you again, I know some pretty good excersizes and stretches to help 'floss' the nerve through the canal.

If you can find a pilsbury doughboy one... I'll buy two!!

The best advice I can give is this: Stay off of the 'Amature Professional Super Hard Core' forums ... until you're an Amature Professional Super hard Core rider. While I understand passion, you have to buy what you can afford. These guys will tell you that it's better to just stay off 'Their' road until you get a 'real' bike. If it gets you off of your couch, away from the keyboard, and gets you on the road... DO IT. There's going to be the 'walmart vs Bike shop' argument. If you can't drop 500 bucks on a used quality bike, DONT WAIT A YEAR UNTIL YOU CAN! Tell the raid group that you're not going to be able to kill the Lich king again this week, ask your mom to take you to Walmart, and RIDE THAT DUDE!! (Now, the exception here is hard trail mountain biking... you can break a bike and your face pretty quick, at LEAST get a hard tail) I just bought my first road bike. I have been on a restricted income since November 2012. So I really couldnt afford the 176.00 that I paid for my new equipment, but I had to do something. I bought it, took it do a local bike shop (Took the ribbing about it being a cheap bike) but they were awesome. They walked me through it, showed me all the gearing, what to watch for, etc. They fixed my brakes, made sure the walmart guy did a decent job putting it togeather. (Caught a few mistakes they made). All in all, charged me 16 bucks (and won a future customer in the process). I went on my first ride today. 3.11 miles, 21 minutes. It's a start. (Oh, and btw, I'm 5'9 277 lbs, have had surgery on both knees, have a compressed disk in my back, a floating vertibre that causes rib dislocations, plantar fascitis, a fused vertibre in my neck, and just had surgery 2 months ago on extreme damage to my ulna and radial nerve on my right arm... so... no excuses!! work it work it work it!!)

This might sound odd, but what's your diet like? Sugars and processed flours can cause inflmation in the body. If you're suffering from a light carple tunnel or tendonitis, dietary swelling could be causing pain in these previously damaged areas. (Neither of these conditions will show up on an X-ray btw) Stretching is a huge benefit to helping with either of these conditions (which many gamers have due to the improper ergonomics with their setup on the pc or holding the controllers) Just a thought, I hope it gets better!

The “freeze†component is better described as a hyper vigilant state or being “on guardâ€. When we sense a threat, we stop and engage our senses collect more information and decide how to respond. If the freeze phase analysis indicates our safety is being threatened, we attempt to flee and if we are unable to flee, we fight. So far, it’s fairly straightforward, but the “fright†or “tonic immobility†response adds an intriguing twist to the theory. The fright response is most easily explained as the act of “playing dead†and serves an important purpose in survival, particularly from an ethological perspective. In animals, the fright response is designed to make the predator lose interest or loosen its grip thinking the prey is dead, which allows the prey a chance to escape. It’s easy to confuse the fright and freeze components, but critical to our safety that we don’t. From a personal safety standpoint, it makes complete sense to stop what we’re doing and focus on analyzing the threat, but only temporarily. If we get stuck in the freeze response, our reaction time is compromised and we can lose our defensive advantage. Being unable to disengage from the fright response is equally detrimental to our safety. Immobility enables the perpetrator to complete the act and commit additional acts, up to and including taking our life, without any resistance. Some form of protective and defensive response is generally more successful in the types of threatening situations we face today. For humans, the effectiveness of these innate responses is based on fluidity—our ability to control our movement into and out of response modes. Although we generally associate the fight or flight response to life threatening situations, it’s important to understand that our bodies respond similarly to any type of threat to our well being—even stressful encounters that are harassing or abusive in nature. We also need to remember we are complex beings and our cumulative life experience plays a role in our reaction. If you have a more passive nature or if you have experienced trauma in the past, you may have to work a little harder to develop your ability to move into the action response, but you can do it. In her book, Healing from Trauma, Jasmin Cori explains that there are a multitude of reasons a person might not be able to flee or fight when their safety is threatened. In a traumatic situation, immobility, dissociation and numbing are all natural and valid coping mechanisms. If prior victimization occurred in childhood, these were likely the only response options available. The imprint of past responses, whether positive or negative, becomes an integral part of our psyche. Without intervention, a pattern of negative or ineffective responses can lead to a lifetime of responding to threats in this way and a future of recurring victimization. Once I had a strong understanding of the fear response model, I was able develop a set of psychological, interpersonal and physical strategies that enhance the innate responses that are effective and counteract the responses that are not. Throughout my curriculum, I specifically incorporate concepts I call “action activators†that trigger people to move through the levels of the fear response more efficiently. These include visualization techniques, positive triggers, movement mapping and other techniques. This non-traditional approach to personal safety education and training is the key to helping people understand natural fear responses and learn to move through them with the fluidity necessary to protect themselves from the full spectrum of modern dangers. ~Realistic Safety Blog

It's me in my bike shorts! ... Don't think about that... Seriously. I am a 35 year old male Nerd. I am 5'9 and as of 09/25/2013 I am 277 lbs. I have a few challenges before me: Knee surgery on both right and left knee. I have a compressed disk in my lower back. I have a 'shifting' vertibre in my upper back that causes rib dislocations. Now, I've been dealing with those challenges for a while, but... I have been off work since November 2012 due to an at work injury. I crushed my Ulna Nerve and twisted my radial nerve. I had surgery in July 2013 (Nerve relocation), but as of yet, it doesnt seem to have made a difference. So, I cannot lift more than 10 lbs without intense pain nor can I leave my arm in either a full extension or a bent position for more than 3 minutes without extreme pain and numbness. Sounds like fun eh? ... So why be on here insted of Oprah with my new 'I'm mangled' book deal? (Which I don't really have)... Because I have two sons; My oldest is 6 years old, and my youngest is 4 years old. I grew up hunting, fishing, hiking, repelling, and spelunking. I remember just about every weekend I was either in a tent or a cave. Boyscouts, Royal Rangers, and later just a down right outdoors nut. I played football, wrestled, ran track, and played soccer in my spare time ... like I had tons of it, right? The knowlege that I developed over the years that I lived this lifestyle is quite extensive. The love I had for it was even more so! I want to pass this knowlege to my sons, and I want to at least give them the opportunity to love the outdoors as I did (and still do). So what happened to me to get me from the 152lb that I wrestled in Highschool to the bear like creature that I am now? Was it a horrible accident? Was it a traggic illness that destroyed my ability to burn fat? Nope.. I got lazy, drank a lot, stopped excersizing, and started living on absolute junk food for many years. (not to mention, I started online gaming in college with Forgotten Realms MUDD... ) Anywho... Last week, I bought a bike. (Specifically a road bike). And I was searching for information about road biking and found this simply wonderful site. (And I'm thankful for it!!) As I am quite out of shape, and I have bad knees, feet (Plantars Facitis), and don't want to jar around too much... Biking seems to be my best option for now... My goals are these: I want to reach 200lbs I want to reach my first 100 mile ride. (and survive it) I want to run a 5k. I want to develop a lifestyle of fitness. So here's what I have going for me... While I'm pretty fat... I'm also built like a bear. My body fat is around 37%, with a fat mass of 102 and lean mass of 175 (Or so says all the test results.....) (52 inch at belly button, but I have a 21 inch neck, and my Chest is also 52 inches, and I don't have man boobies ) Now that sounds like a lot of 'trying to say i'm not fat i'm big boned... but I'm going somwehre with this...) I used to wrestle, and lift weights a ton, I'm very familiar with body training and conditioning. Though the years, I've gotten a lot of head knowlege about proper eating, how food works, the dangers of processed foods, sugars, carbs, and the horrible condition our food sources are in.... But here's my biggest struggle.... I just can't seem to get my actions in line with my brain!! I know how to eat well, I just don't. I know how to work out, I just don't. I know how to train others to get in shape.. I just don't do it myself!! So... it's going to be a long road. I went on my frist ride today 3.11 miles in 21 minutes. I think my heart actually fell out, but I dunno! I look forward to your support, your hard pushing, and loads of fun!!