I’m always getting hurt. This month it’s a hip flexor. Last month it was something in my elbow. I’m 35 and been lifting for about 15 years and this has always plagued me.
I feel it has to do with the fact that I gain weight/strength very fast. ( I am THE easy gainer.) It just seems like the weakest link in the chain always breaks.
It’s not a question of form or crazy lifting antics like too much volume or too much load. Hell I haven’t seen failure in years. I feel I stretch and warm up well. ( I guess it could always be a little better.) It’s always a little pull or something holding back the huge progress that I could be making.
How do you “hold back?” I know that if I squat say 350x10 this week. If I’ve eatin well, slept well and such that I can throw another 5lbs. on the bar next week and knock it out with ease. This will go on for weeks until I show up one day and realize that some little part of me is hurt. Which halts progress as usual.
I’ve always tried to vary my lifts and train my body as a whole. My diet is A+ and I don’t supplement with anything other than vitamins and whey.
The age thing is making the healing these days painfully slow.
Do u stretch? Are u really tight? And, how about taking some knox & joint supps!? Throw in a hot epsom bath once a week. Throw in some payed sex, might change things for ya!
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I take an epsom salt bath on every off day. If you do it right the amount of relaxation you feel after is incredible. I try to do this before bed and I’ve noticed increased recovery. And its only like 3 bucks for a buttload
[quote]TriGWU wrote:
I take an epsom salt bath on every off day. If you do it right the amount of relaxation you feel after is incredible. I try to do this before bed and I’ve noticed increased recovery. And its only like 3 bucks for a buttload[/quote]
how much can you get in your butt at one time? I find that b/c its a powder that I have a hard time getting it in there;)
I’ve only taken one epsom bath in my life, when I was younger to help get a splinter out of my leg. How do the salts work (i.e. what is it that makes this work). I haven’t seen this method mentioned on here before.
dollarbill44, epsom salts are high in magnesium. In the body magnesium and calcium “antagonize” each other. Where calcium causes muscles to contract, magnesium causes muscles to relax.
The skin is an absorptive organ. And since the average person is deficient in magnesium (with athletes being even more so), epsom salts baths are good for health, relaxation and recovery.
I even recommend it to people I know who have bad backs or who have been in an auto accident, when there body is “stove up,” as the old folk like to say. (grin)
I’m always getting hurt. This month it’s a hip flexor. Last month it was something in my elbow. I’m 35 and been lifting for about 15 years and this has always plagued me.
I feel it has to do with the fact that I gain weight/strength very fast. ( I am THE easy gainer.) It just seems like the weakest link in the chain always breaks.
It’s not a question of form or crazy lifting antics like too much volume or too much load. Hell I haven’t seen failure in years. I feel I stretch and warm up well. ( I guess it could always be a little better.) It’s always a little pull or something holding back the huge progress that I could be making.
How do you “hold back?” I know that if I squat say 350x10 this week. If I’ve eatin well, slept well and such that I can throw another 5lbs. on the bar next week and knock it out with ease. This will go on for weeks until I show up one day and realize that some little part of me is hurt. Which halts progress as usual.
I’ve always tried to vary my lifts and train my body as a whole. My diet is A+ and I don’t supplement with anything other than vitamins and whey.
The age thing is making the healing these days painfully slow.
Any ideas?
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Abit of humility might help. It’s a bitch being human, given enough time, something always breaks.
The bath could help, maybe a massage?
[quote]scotty144 wrote:
Hey Mowgli…Do you live in Ottawa?[/quote]
Yes I do… Work for the gov… Train at the ‘Y’ on Merivale. Thanks for the invite to chat earlier, but it probably didn’t work well cause of the comp’ system at work here…
Give me a shout later Scotty.
I hit the big “35” this year and have been lifting since 1988. In the last year or so I’ve had to drastically change my lifting strategy due to knee, shoulder and elbow “twinges” that were starting to creep in. I read an article last year (may have been on T-Mag, I can’t remember) that talked about dynamic vs. static stretching. Dynamic stretching before your workout (after you’ve warmed up)gets the muscles ready to perform and static stretching after your workout aids in recovery. The article made a lot of sense, so I tried it.
I now do a 5 minute warmup on the wife’s elliptical and then do dynamic stretching for the muscle group(s) I’m working that day. The whole process adds about ten minutes to the front of my workout, and the static stretches (which I’ve done for years) add another 10 or so at the end. The punchline—no more twinges. NONE. I used to be able to just do a couple of warmup sets and then get to it. Passing the 30-year mark put a stop to that. The dynamic stretches look kind of ridiculous and you definitely need to be warmed up to prevent injury, but they have managed to ward off the twinges.
[quote]FistFullaJonson wrote:
It’s not a question of form or crazy lifting antics like too much volume or too much load. Hell I haven’t seen failure in years. I feel I stretch and warm up well. ( I guess it could always be a little better.) It’s always a little pull or something holding back the huge progress that I could be making.
How do you “hold back?” I know that if I squat say 350x10 this week. If I’ve eatin well, slept well and such that I can throw another 5lbs. on the bar next week and knock it out with ease. This will go on for weeks until I show up one day and realize that some little part of me is hurt. Which halts progress as usual.
I’ve always tried to vary my lifts and train my body as a whole. My diet is A+ and I don’t supplement with anything other than vitamins and whey.
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Stretch, stretch, stretch, fish oil, learn to vary your intensity and exercises. Limit your work sets to no more than 10-15 per workout 3-4 times a week. (Ian King has some great info in his Limping series about varing intensity–first week, ease into things, next week a little more intense, third week even more intense, then change exercises and repeat the process.) You might also find the Bryan Haycock articles on this site helpfull.
