Ok, so I've been out for a bit with a shoulder injury, which has been an awfully boring, but ultimately fruitful experience. So I decided to post a video of something that I was able to do a couple of weeks ago: handstand pushups!
I've found these to be one of the best exercises for your shoulders. Not only does it give you massive shoulders (since you're pushing about 90% of your weight off the floor), but it helps with rotator cuff stability (something that was damaged a bit with me during my injury), as well as balance and core work. Try a few for yourself, but make sure you use a wall first.
Check out these tips to get the most out of your handstand pushup:
Sweet!
I'm beginning a new workout routine next Monday, but until then I'm going to relax, and keep working my shoulders. Suffice to say, it's gonna be a doozy of a workout.
A few weeks ago, I injured my shoulder during filming. During this phase of training (because really, isn't everything training?), I've managed to learn a few things.
Lesson #2: Embrace something you wouldn't have done before. In my case, this was biking. I've never been very into cycling or anything like that, always attributing the strange shoes and tight shorts as guys and girls showing off (this coming from a swimmer, who spent most of his swim team youth in a mankini). However, I decided to quit knocking it and give it a shot. Yeah, it sucked at first (the seat is so uncomfortable!), but in time I grew to enjoy it a little bit, and it even became therapeutic for me. It's something that I'm going to add to my routine.
So, a few weeks ago during filming for a new web series that I'm hosting, I messed up my shoulder in a stunt known as the "Human Adagio." Basically I was supposed to keep my arms straight the whole time.
Time for a game boys and girls, entitled "Where Did Jordan F*ck Up." Can you guess where he messed up (hint: it's where everyone goes "ooooo").
Ow.
During this time, I have written several things and made a lot of observations on what has happened. I'll be writing one thing per entry for the next few days or so.
The first thing I have learned: don't stop working out after injury. After what happened in the video, I stopped working out for about two weeks. During that time, the injury went from one shoulder to affect both shoulders. Not only that, but the pain was different on each one. Again, not a smart idea. So I decided to train for my triathlon (which is coming up this Saturday) by doing a lot more biking and running, since I am not comfortable on biking or the biking-to-running transition. Little by little, my body began to heal itself.
I read somewhere recently that if you get injured, you shoulder continue to work out, because not only will you heal faster, but you will actually become stronger in the affected area. That seemed to be the case, as about a week after I started biking and running again, I tried my hand at swimming, and ended up swimming about 2 miles in an hour using mostly my arms.
