Week 4, Monday, 5.20.13
HRV - 99.7, RHR - 58.7
I may train later today and edit this post but I wanted to update my visit with the surgeon today. He’s a very well respected surgeon. It was overall an encouraging visit, however it won’t be until July 11th until I finally have the surgery (8 weeks). He told me I have a good chance of coming back to Olympic weightlifting, but my recovery time depends on how much hard articular labral cartilage I have torn. He can repair the softer/more superficial cartilage pretty easily, but he’ll have to do a microfracture procedure where he inserts cadaever cells into the socket to repair the deep tissue. The more deep cartilage I have torn, the longer I have to spend on crutches. I have to stay on crutches for at least 2 weeks minimum but it could be 6 weeks depending on if he has to do the microfracture procedure. Full rehab will take 3-4 months which will mean it will be at least by October/November before I can start training hard again if everything goes well. Finally, I asked him if I have avascular necrosis and he’s told me that there’s a very good chance that I do not have it.
I really have to be careful with my training now to make sure that I don’t irritate any more deep cartilage. He didn’t tell me to stop doing any activity so I will keep doing the single leg work as long as there’s zero pain. I’m going to continue doing a lot of upperbody Poliquin style bodybuilding work during this time, especially heavy benching. EMS Max strength will also continue to be a good friend of mine over these next 6-7 months.
As far as my HRV numbers this morning, it was a lot higher than it usually is. I don’t know if it was because I woke up 3hrs earlier than normal, well rested myself this weekend, or what.