Cleans still mess up my back occassionally, as I tend to favor my right side when cleaning the bar.
Barbell Curls used to hurt my wrist. Not anymore.
Heavy Skull Crushers hurt my elbows (try to stay above 8-10 reps now)
WORST OF ALL - DB PULLOVERS. I have tried atleast 3 times to do this exercise without injuring my shoulder, but to no avail. I refuse to do these anymore.
Exercises that should have hurt me but havent yet (knock on wood):
Heavy Flies (< 6 reps)
Behind Neck Press Heavy (5 x 5)
[quote]BBoor82 wrote:
Barbell bench used to. Not anymore
Cleans still mess up my back occassionally, as I tend to favor my right side when cleaning the bar.
Barbell Curls used to hurt my wrist. Not anymore.
Heavy Skull Crushers hurt my elbows (try to stay above 8-10 reps now)
WORST OF ALL - DB PULLOVERS. I have tried atleast 3 times to do this exercise without injuring my shoulder, but to no avail. I refuse to do these anymore.
Exercises that should have hurt me but havent yet (knock on wood):
Heavy Flies (< 6 reps)
Behind Neck Press Heavy (5 x 5)
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If you don’t mind me asking, how did you get your BB bench to no longer make you sore? Change in technique? I’d definitely like to do BB again, but stay away from it because of the above mentioned.
Isn’t it funny that I have only been in a major injury from when playing:
a) soccer
b) snow boarding
c) walking badly on the curb of a street
d) sprinting athletics
It hurts to bend my neck to the left (like you’re stretching your right trap), as if there is a small ball in the left side of my neck and it hurts when you press down on it.
This happened immediately after dumbbell shoulder pressing and I’ve had it for a few weeks.
My right wrist occasionally hurts. I have what feels like a bubble-type thing under the skin and sometimes, it will hurt when doing rope pushdowns. I forgot what it’s called, but you get it from overuse and in the olden days, it was treated by slamming a book on your wrist to pop the bubble.
I’ve strained my lower back multiple times doing squats and deads. That lasted no more than a week at a time. The injuries were from bad form or trying to move a risky weight.
I got an inflamed tendon or something (I forgot what it was called) in my hip from squats.
I got tendinitis in my knees. I have no idea what from. I never stopped leg work and it went away on its own.
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I get a pain in the outer part of my right forearm from doing barbell curls. It’s not that bad and I work through it. Was yours similar? How did you remedy it?
[quote]BradTGIF wrote:
Heavy-Duty wrote:
The barbell bench press caused me so many shoulder injuries that I stopped doing them. Not worth ruining other upper body exercies for one that did not even build my chest too well.
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I stick to DB bench, BB bench was giving me some pretty aggrivating right clavicular area pain for some reason.[/quote]
The pain I felt also was in the clavicle area. As long as I don’t bench press, I am pain free. But as soon as I bench the pain starts right back up. I looked on the internet and read some articles saying it is possibly weightlifter’s shoulder. It has something to do with cartilege being worn away.
I get a pain in the outer part of my right forearm from doing barbell curls. It’s not that bad and I work through it. Was yours similar? How did you remedy it?
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Hopefully the pain you are talking about is not near the elbow. If it is then it is tennis elbow. I used to do alternating dumbell curls because my biceps always grew from them. Then one day I was doing them and got a sharp pain and had to stop lifting immediately.
The pain got so bad where I could not even carry a bag of groceries without being in awful pain. My remedy was to stop doing alternating curls and just do dumbell curls without twisting the wrist. I also went to the sporting goods store and bought the tennis elbow straps and now do not have the pain.
When I used to play football I broke my wrist and had to rehabilitate it. I am fortunate because even though I sometimes have wrist pain it does not interfere with my workouts.
Shoulders from Flat BB Bench Press. I was fine with DB pressing until I decided to test my max. Pretty sure its the rotator cuff. Regardless, I’m never going to BB bench maximals again.
exercises dont hurt people; bad form, bad programming, bad planning and timing, and imbalances hurt people
(obviously this is a blanket statement, but even with a pretty colourful injury list myself, i see now that most of it could have been avoided, and its Almost always true)
[quote]brian.m wrote:
exercises dont hurt people; bad form, bad programming, bad planning and timing, and imbalances hurt people
(obviously this is a blanket statement, but even with a pretty colourful injury list myself, i see now that most of it could have been avoided, and its Almost always true)[/quote]
That is the gayest thing you could have possibly said. I applaud you.
To whoever it was that asked me how the Bench stopped hurting my shoulder…
Basically, I took 3 or 4 years off from it. I concentrated almost strictly on Inc DB and Fly’s, and worked up to decent weights (120 x 6 on INC DB). I just went back to BB BEnch a couple weeks ago, and it has been fine. I go much slower on the negative, and try not to cheat on the positive. I think the DB Incline work helped significantly to strengthen my shoulder region.
Regardless, my bench is pathetic. Thats what happens from 4 years off, I guess. Its weird to DB Inclining 120’s, and yet 240 on flat bench is done 5 times max.
In regards to who asked me about curls… It happened during college. Like 4 years ago. I would always get hammer drunk thursday night and then work arms fridays…
and I think I was always just slightly hungover and I let my form slip. I took about 6 months off, till I was sure the wrist pain had subsided. I concentrated on all DB moved for my bi’s. I’ve been back to BB curls for about 2 years now, and haven’t had a problem.
Hope that helps. I really dont know exactly why its been fine… that’s the only thing I can think of…
highschool football-fucked meniscus
deadlifts-fucked lower back(ql)
benching-fucked rotater cuff
remember the bigget reason people get injured due to lifting is because of shitty techinque, not just because the excersize is dangerous, althought there are some lifts which are much more dangerous then others
