New beginnings

To help me stay on the straight and narrow I'm going to be recording my health and fitness activities. This is mainly for me. Hi me, you rock!

I'm very overweight and have a number of niggling injuries from lifting very heavy weights in my youth. Focusing on the front of my body while neglecting my back, coupled with horrible posture and sitting in front of a computer for 12-16 hours a day has resulted in a muscular imbalance that causes me lots of pain.

I have terrible flexibility, shockingly bad, and it affects my day to day movements dramatically. I need to stretch and correct this.

The biggest cause of pain at the moment is from subacromial bursitis which causes shoulder pain, making me very weak in lots of shoulder movements, and discomfort from the time I wake up to the time I go to sleep. To correct this I have to work on scapular stability and rotator cuff strength. Lower trap and serratus work will help, and anything that works external rotation of the arm.