This article gives a some more detailed reasoning behind this and some examples of exercises you can do! http://www.muscularinjuryspecialist.com/pain-between-the-shoulder-blades.html
Work and modern habits have resulted in many of us suffering from pain and tension in between the shoulder blades. Whilst the most natural conclusion to draw might be that you have very tense muscles in that area, what are often neglected are the opposing muscles; pectoralis major (and minor), which thanks to sitting at computers and bad posture can become short and tight, pulling the shoulders forward and placing the rhomboids under constant tension. Try some stretches to release tension in the pecs along with some strengthening exercises to isolate the muscles between the shoulder blades and ultimately improve this imbalance.
This article gives a some more detailed reasoning behind this and some examples of exercises you can do! http://www.muscularinjuryspecialist.com/pain-between-the-shoulder-blades.html
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Interesting ride to work this morning...firstly as I was entering the bike lane next to Hillhead primary school, a man who had just literally walked through the bike lane noticed me, looked me in the eye, deliberately didn't move out the way and came right up to me shouting the odds in my face about the fact that apparently I was cycling on the pavement and I was in the wrong etc etc. What is wrong with people?! Since when is it okay to just aggressively approach a stranger and start yelling at them without even trying to have a conversation first!? I genuinely despair. Did he really think that was going to end well or what? How could he have known what kind of person I was either...luckily I was brought up well and have learned how to behave like an adult but what if I had just socked him one or worse...? It's truly unbelievable. Even more importantly, what kind of example was he setting to the children he was taking to school with him? (I think he might have been the grandfather) They'll grow up thinking it's absolutely fine to behave like that... Then...just to top things off, I almost got completely mashed by a stagecoach bus whilst IN the bike lane on University Avenue. Luckily my adrenaline was still flowing from the first encounter that I was able to get out the way...
I'm off to Portugal tomorrow for 12 days and have decided to go completely off the grid which means no Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, 4sq, Swarm, Whatsapp, FB messenger and not even email.
Now, you need to understand, this is quite a radical move for me and I openly admit that it's going to be difficult! I'm fully expecting some withdrawl symptoms. Constantly checking for updates in my news feed, obsessing over how many likes my posts got and (probably) over-sharing has become the norm for me as I suspect it has for our generation of tech-savvy, social bunnies. This is a personal challenge to prove to myself that I can still function and enjoy life without my iPhone as an extra limb and without the burning desire to share everything and yes...it's ironic in itself that I have chosen to announce this challenge via my blog and ultimately via Twitter and Facebook :) It's time to live in the moment, to dig out my dslr and take photos (even selfies) without posting them immediately, to see and savour things just for myself, to create the memories in my brain, to stimulate all my senses and remember how I experienced a place by its scent, its touch, its vistas and its sounds. When I come back, I'll have stories to tell, that you haven't already seen and heard. This is my cool hubby diving into lake Näsijärvi in Tampere, Finland with his brand new Go Pro camera.
This is her new single. Looking forward to seeing her live in Glasgow in October!
My lovely husband gave me the heads'up about a new mobile app, which is super, super pretty and I think everyone should try it out. It's called STELLER and certainly lives up to its misspelled name ;) STELLER allows you to create beautiful picture, video and textual stories in a flip-book style. You can create a story about absolutely anything. My first story features our recent trip to Iceland, which I thought was a good start because it covers travel and photography in a trip blog manner. Have a look for yourselves: ICELAND : The Land of Ice and Fire You can browse the STELLER community for topics you're interested in and create your own collections around them. You can re-publish other people's stories into your collections too. The UX design and functionality are just sublime! Go on, try it out!! So I went along to a science event yesterday evening which was held in the Curler's Rest pub on Byres Road in Glasgow. It was part of an annual 3-day science festival called "Pint of Science" which actually takes place simultaneously around the world. It's the first time it's been brought to Scotland and I found out about it through work (Glasgow Uni was a main sponsor). Having just returned from a super-awesome fantabulously brilliant trip to Iceland, I was pretty excited to find out the topics of some of the talks! There was a whole theme on Geology and Planet Earth. Within that I chose to attend two talks:
It turns out we do (!) but it's an extremely risky business as investors would have to put 47% of their investment down up-front just to do an exploratory dig and hope that they're in the right place. Obviously there are scientists who predict where the right spots are (around ancient fault lines etc) but you never really know until your 2km under! Glasgow has a tonne of old coal mine shafts which could be brought into play but first the government needs to be persuaded to invest in a couple of demo sites where investors could come along and see the types of projects they could fund with their own eyes first. You might be wondering how it would work? Well...I am a layman, so forgive me for glossing over the super technical details, but basically you would drill down to find the right layer of rock which is hot enough then pump the hot water up to ground level, pass it through a heat exchanger and harness the energy, then put the colder water back down into the hole, and so the cycle would continue! The heat could be used for district heating systems, which do exist in new estates such as the Commonwealth village in the east end of Glasgow. In Paris, 120,000 homes are heated using exactly this kind of geothermal heat! If anyone is interested in reading more about the Scottish government's plans then there's some light reading on their website:
A Study into the Potential for Deep Geothermal Energy in Scotland: Part 1 Our plea to Glasgow city council continues. My husband is doing his best, taking photos of the mess in our street (as well as numerous potholes in the road) and sending them to the council but sadly to little or no avail. The buildings in our street, mostly Georgian townhouses are gorgeous but the whole atmosphere is spoiled by this filth that is constantly littering the pavements and roads. It only gets worse when it's windy or stormy (fairly common occurrence in Scotland) as it all just blows about and spreads everywhere. It's not just our street, it's quite common to walk down residential streets, which are not Buchanan St or the Merchant City or Byres road and find a very similar situation. Surely there has to be some sort of coordinate regular rubbish collection going on...I'm afraid we're yet to see it :( |
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