makeshift weight bench

The good news about my frozen—now thawing—shoulder continues. I figured out a way to jury-rig a weight bench. I can't make it adjustable, but my setup works to allow my elbows to go below the level of my supine back, which is something I've been wanting to test since the beginning of this year. Up to now, precisely because of the pain of the frozen shoulder, I've been using my 10-kilo weights to do light bench presses on the flat of my bed. Of course, this has meant that my elbows couldn't go below the level of the bed, which in turn means that, until very recently, I haven't been doing the full range of motion for a real bench press. Something is better than nothing, I reasoned. Now, however, I've figured out that, if I hang my head over a corner of the bed and lie diagonally across the bed, I can do real bench presses with the full range of motion because my elbows can now go below the level of my back. But hanging my head over the bed's corner puts a strain on my neck, so the final piece of the puzzle is to move a padded chair over to the corner—something on which to rest my head. Ah, much better. I now have something like a weight bench. 10-kilo weights seem to be about my max for the moment, and I know I can't use my 20-kilo weight for bench presses (or curls, or lateral raises, etc.) because I'm still too much of a wimp, so I'll probably just increase my reps. For now, the 20-kilo weight is for farmer's carries, which strengthen the core.