TRAINING LOG: Little Duncan

Posted with permission of the management. 



The little guy is already rolling along.  Training notes and training videos will follow soon!

I am absolutely STOKED to see what Duncan has been up to; complete with guest appearances by Roland the Destroyer!

Monday 3/3/14

Dead Lift to Hip Snatch (yes really)

• More a balance complex than a strength complex at this stage.
• Seated on his bench - dead lift off a block - slow-mo snatch up to pause - lower - repeat
• 1 pound weight bar x 5
• 2 pound weight bar x 3
• 4 pound weight bar x 3

Wheelbarrows (walking on hands with hip support)
30 feet x 2

An excellent short workout.

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Edited by TomLawrence - 3/03/14 at 9:05pm

Math homework tonight.  Squats tomorrow.

Flex!

Thursday 3/6/14

Physical therapy with "Iron Dawn"

• Miss Dawn has been helping me since I was six months old.  She's tough, but I owe that lady a lot.
• Left knee is still not bearing weight, so no squats.  I am under orders to rest it.
• Lots of stretching and realignment.

Triceps

• No squats, so I am learning to do bench dips instead.
• Starting on the bench and pressing up on blocks.

Core stuff because you can never have too much.

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Thanks! Mr. Parker.

Drat.  Ms. B beat me by minutes.

Monday 3/10/14

• PT with Miss Sarah.  Stretching and mobility.
• Core work with Dad and Roland

Tuesday 3/11/14

• I still can't bear weight on my left leg, so we are headed to my orthopedist, Dr. Fabregas, today. 
• What we expect is that Dr. Fabulous (we like to call him that) will recommend changing my ankle-foot-orthotics to knee-ankle-foot-orthotics.  My orthotics craftsman, Jason, is really good and said he could probably make knee pieces that could attach and detach to my existing AFOs to make them KAFOs or not.
• Itching to get out on the track.  The flowers are blooming and time is wasting.

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Wednesday 3/12/14

Bench Press warmup

• 5 x 1 pound weight bar
• 3 x 2 pound weight bar
• 1 x 4 pound weight bar and hold for 10

Seated OHP

• 5 x 1/2 pound slosh pipe
• 3 x 1 pound slosh pipe
• 1 x 3 pound slosh pipe and hold for 10
• Stabilizing my own core

Wheelbarrows for 30 feet

Flex!  All done after reading and spelling homework.

Did some weight bearing on my left leg and it's holding steady.  One more day off my feet and we'll see what happens at PT on Friday.

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I'm looking at my watch and it says POSE DOWN O'CLOCK!

Friday 3/14/14

Physical Therapy with Iron Dawn

• Stretching and realignment
• Weight bearing and some waking with assistance
• Medicine ball slams with a texture ball and then with a basketball while receiving only hip support
• I have been cleared to get back to walking as long as we monitor my knee for inflammation!

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Edited by TomLawrence - 3/18/14 at 5:48am

Lookin' swole LD.  Keep after it!

Love to hear all this wonderful progress! Get after it little D!

Week of 3/31 - 4/5

Spring Break from school!

Iron Dawn has me working on flat shoe walking, i.e. not with my leg braces.  So every other day this past week we did hill climbs in my Converse Allstars.  We want to build a little more strength before we push for more distance.

I also restarted hippotherapy last Friday.  Riding a horse is very good for my core strength and my hips.  My first year of hippotherapy was the final piece of the puzzle that helped me learn to walk.  This is now my third year.

Dad also has me doing isometric exercises for my upper body -- lat holds and planks.

Dad and I visited  some potential Team Duncan sponsors this weekend as well.  We are trying to get the local businesses to kick in for a spot on the back of the team shirt.  There is only a month left before the March for Babies, so we have to kick the fundraising into a higher gear.

New video coming soon!

http://www.marchforbabies.org/SupportDuncan

Thank you Mr. Bill!  Say 'hi' to Rosey for me.

Dad just sent off requests to IronMind and to Sorinex to see if they want to sponsor donate to the march as business/corporate sponsors.  It never hurts to ask.

http://www.marchforbabies.org/SupportDuncan

Edited to clarify 'sponsor'


Edited by TomLawrence - 4/08/14 at 3:09pm