This sabbatical from social media may be just what I needed. At the beginning of November I was performing some minor maintenance work on my wife’s car and felt a slight pop in my shoulder. Thankfully this was the same shoulder I had injured years ago due to a “gymath” issue in which I grabbed the wrong plates and continued my workout. In your 20’s this is the way…

A visit to the orthopedist resulted in x-rays and MRIs. The x-rays thankfully showed no breaks however the MRIs told a completely different story.

• Extreme tendonitis at the bicep head
• Bursitis
• Incomplete tear in the rotator cuff
• Extreme osteoarthritis

We will add these to the other conditions I live with; pre-CTE (headaches, irritableness, memory loss, etc.), DDD (degenerative disc disease) and a lovely hip impingement on my right femur.

These things have not stopped by yet and I do not expect them to stop my any time soon. This time away from social media has given me time to reassess things and their true importance. I will be putting a considerable more amount of time into my physical well being comparable to the amount of time and research as I have into the world of personal protection.

In the past I have played around with Britain’s most notorious prisoner, Charles Bronson’s Solitary Fitness as a guide in the past and I do believe it will be the right way for me to start off again.

No kettlebells, no maces, no clubs until my shoulder is healed. At my age I really need to be smart about this.

Solitary Fitness – Charles Bronson