I haven’t read through all of your posts, so I apologize if you’ve discussed it before, but I was wondering what, if any, moderate to serious injuries you’ve sustained since you started lifting.
Why dont you just private message him…
He is a nice guy from the one message i sent to him.
I like threads that call out experienced people like this, because it gives people other than the one individual who chose to private message him a chance to learn as well, FutureKing.
Oh just incase Prof X doesn’t see this maybe pm him that the thread is here…
I dont think he has time to go through all the bits of the forum.
Sorry.
You’re all creepy.
And your avatar looks like a woman spreading her pussy for all to see. People wanting to learn from someone with more experience are creepy? Compared to WHAT?
Didn’t he write about this topic in the one thread where he discussed his training ?
Give me a minute and I’ll try to find the post.
Edit: It was in the “how do you train” thread, not the “a request” one.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
malonetd wrote:
Just out of curiosity, you ever have any training related injuries, X?
I had one about 5 years ago when I had some random gym idiot constantly challenge me because he heard me talking with some other guys about what I was curling for dumbbells.
In a very stupid movement on my part and without warming up like I would usually do, I proceeded to curl the weight in question and strained my right brachioradialis. It wasn’t a severe injury but (considering I never quit training) it took forever to heal and now seems to be a weak link as far as me going higher in weight.
The moral of the story is don’t show off just because some random fool 50lbs lighter than you claims to not believe you can lift a certain weight.
Other than that, I seem to heal pretty quickly and haven’t had any other lasting injuries related directly to training.[/quote]
[quote]Cephalic_Carnage wrote:
Didn’t he write about this topic in the one thread where he discussed his training ?
Give me a minute and I’ll try to find the post.
Edit: It was in the “how do you train” thread, not the “a request” one.
Professor X wrote:
malonetd wrote:
Just out of curiosity, you ever have any training related injuries, X?
I had one about 5 years ago when I had some random gym idiot constantly challenge me because he heard me talking with some other guys about what I was curling for dumbbells. In a very stupid movement on my part and without warming up like I would usually do, I proceeded to curl the weight in question and strained my right brachioradialis. It wasn’t a severe injury but (considering I never quit training) it took forever to heal and now seems to be a weak link as far as me going higher in weight.
The moral of the story is don’t show off just because some random fool 50lbs lighter than you claims to not believe you can lift a certain weight.
Other than that, I seem to heal pretty quickly and haven’t had any other lasting injuries related directly to training.
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That’s the only “injury” I’ve sustained that limited my training (finds wood, knocks on it…wonders who the fuck came up with this saying and why). As a result, I have the opinion that my arms would be bigger than they are now if I had continued lifting as heavy as I was with alternate dumbbell curls. I won’t get into how much I was curling, but it was pretty significant.
Because of that, I warm up more probably than most people around my age.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Cephalic_Carnage wrote:
Didn’t he write about this topic in the one thread where he discussed his training ?
Give me a minute and I’ll try to find the post.
Edit: It was in the “how do you train” thread, not the “a request” one.
Professor X wrote:
malonetd wrote:
Just out of curiosity, you ever have any training related injuries, X?
I had one about 5 years ago when I had some random gym idiot constantly challenge me because he heard me talking with some other guys about what I was curling for dumbbells. In a very stupid movement on my part and without warming up like I would usually do, I proceeded to curl the weight in question and strained my right brachioradialis. It wasn’t a severe injury but (considering I never quit training) it took forever to heal and now seems to be a weak link as far as me going higher in weight.
The moral of the story is don’t show off just because some random fool 50lbs lighter than you claims to not believe you can lift a certain weight.
Other than that, I seem to heal pretty quickly and haven’t had any other lasting injuries related directly to training.
That’s the only “injury” I’ve sustained that limited my training (finds wood, knocks on it…wonders who the fuck came up with this saying and why). As a result, I have the opinion that my arms would be bigger than they are now if I had continued lifting as heavy as I was with alternate dumbbell curls. I won’t get into how much I was curling, but it was pretty significant.
Because of that, I warm up more probably than most people around my age.[/quote]
Ha, I spent the 4 last years of school in south africa and those guys there said “touch wood” about twice in 3 seconds, all day long.
Does it come from a movie or something ?
Anyway, congrats to you for staying free of the usual injuries…
How much does that brachioradialis bother you these days?
I noticed that few Pro’s do Hammer or Pinwheel curls (the latter being my favorite, somehow they are far easier to progress than other types of curls), don’t they get into trouble that way?
If I don’t keep one of those movements in my rotation, I usually end up with forearm pain while curling.
Edit: Perhaps it’s just unique leverage or something, I have fairly long arms and long biceps.
I’ve also never managed to “feel” my brachialis, so maybe that’s the culprit… The one on my right arm seems quite a bit less developed than the one on my left.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
(finds wood, knocks on it…wonders who the fuck came up with this saying and why[/quote]
I heard that a long time ago some people thought that bad spirits hid in wood and that you knocked on it to scare them away. I think this calls for a google search.
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/221200.html
“The derivation may be the association that wood and trees have with good spirits in mythology, or with the Christian cross. It used to be considered good luck to tap trees to let the wood spirits within know you were there.”
“It is commonly thought that knocking on wood has been a superstitious action to ward off evil throughout history involving both Pagan and Christian belief systems.[1] Some believe it has to do with knocking on the wooden cross.[2] Another explanation for this practice is the pagan belief that spirits (dryads) lived in trees.[3]By knocking on the wood of a tree while making some sort of a bold statement, the speaker could prevent the spirit from hearing him and stop the spirit from interfering[citation needed] or out of respect for the wood spirit, touching a tree indicated seeking protection from the particular spirit.[4]”
Thx, I always wondered about that (thought it was some idiotic new pop-culture trend to say that).
To X: I think I recall you making some comment on pain meds/aspirin or whatever when the lifting aches get bad
(Just repeating this off the top of my head, don’t want to put words in your mouth or anything).
So, to get back on topic, do you get pain strong enough to warrant meds, even if it’s not a serious injury?
In my case, those common lifting pains stopped once I began to keep my bodyfat at around 16-20 percent (or so, more like 20 most of the time) and loaded up on fish oil.
The DC Extreme Stretches really helped, too,
together with that Shoulder Saver thing Dante posted over at IM (I think it’s featured in some articles here as well)
Chest and Delts on the same day was impossible for me until I mastered that special exercise (though others don’t seem to have this issue at all).
[quote]mr popular wrote:
And your avatar looks like a woman spreading her pussy for all to see. People wanting to learn from someone with more experience are creepy? Compared to WHAT?[/quote]
I wasn’t really referring to you, but it seems there is an abundance of people around who, from what I can tell, has a closet fetish with everything Professor X says / does.
My hats off to X if that is the only injury he’s had. I’ve been doing this for a little over 20 years, the first 15 or so I never had in injuries to speak of. The last 5 seems like I’m always chasing them. Bone spurs on my shoulders, back problems, knee problems.
I’m having a good week if something isn’t hurting. I love it too much to stop though. I’d rather deal with the physical pain than the depression I’d be in from not lifting.
[quote]jstreet0204 wrote:
My hats off to X if that is the only injury he’s had. I’ve been doing this for a little over 20 years, the first 15 or so I never had in injuries to speak of. The last 5 seems like I’m always chasing them. Bone spurs on my shoulders, back problems, knee problems. I’m having a good week if something isn’t hurting. I love it too much to stop though. I’d rather deal with the physical pain than the depression I’d be in from not lifting.[/quote]
I hung around too many guys when I first got started who were in their mid to late 30’s, had been lifting for several years and were now dealing with nagging injuries to take it lightly. I listened to their advice and avoided BTN shoulder presses that took the bar any lower than ear level. This is my personal reason for avoiding deadlifts especially since some of the best backs on stage lately include some who don’t do this exercise (Ben White). My goal is longevity, not just doing this to impress someone else.
Impressing someone is how I got that one injury.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Impressing someone is how I got that one injury.[/quote]
One big thing I’ve learnt from many here is to “check your ego at the door”.
What preventative measures do you take, for example, do you wear wraps and such on the bigger lifts?
[quote]Cephalic_Carnage wrote:
To X: I think I recall you making some comment on pain meds/aspirin or whatever when the lifting aches get bad
(Just repeating this off the top of my head, don’t want to put words in your mouth or anything).
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That was part of a discussion about NSAIDs and the effect on muscle growth. I simply commented that I made some great gains while in school and using Ibuprofen on a semi-regular basis. It was NO recommendation to anyone else at all.
Yeah I noticed you said you don’t do deadlifts before, but I was wondering if you had any close calls with back tweaks or something. I was lifting yesterday doing rack pulls and when I went to lift what would have been a new PR, i felt a burst of pain in my lower right back and had to stop. Pretty soon it seized up and when I went to see the PT in the building (it was a university gym) she said that I had tweaked my quadratus lumborum. In any case, I did this about 2 years ago while squatting what was my PR, (and due to that and my torn acl, is still my PR).
I was wondering if perhaps I should just wear a weight belt when training max lifts for these exercises or what. Granted, none of this was super heavy (535 for rack pulls and 405 for my squat) but now that my back is tweaked and its painful to move, I think about things like this.
But you seem inordinately lucky, X. Congratulations on avoiding injury so well.
[quote]IgneLudo wrote:
But you seem inordinately lucky, X. Congratulations on avoiding injury so well. [/quote]
Lucky? I have more basic knowledge of biology, anatomy and phys than most people. Luck has nothing to do with it. I listen to my own body and back off when I feel I am near the edge. Obviously, that comes from actually reaching that edge quite a few times and learning from mistakes.
Claiming that luck had something to do with it is much like claiming someone got huge all because of genetics…as if they didn’t have to work hard.