Do you use a belt when lifting heavy every day and never getting sore or tired?**
Makes sense. I’m overly sensitive about my low back, for good reason. I’ve also heard of people ripping biceps with a hook grip on deadlift.
This describes the average SixPacker’s completion of ADLs
I don’t use them. My injuries are always for small ******** muscles I don’t work enough, and they sideline me for months. I have a tennis elbow injury that has been nagging me for 6 months and have had to only do serious lifts with lower body since. My core isn’t a limiter but my grip has been, and it has cost me when I ignored it
That’s amazing you were able to get back in the gym after 25 years away. I quit for about 3 years after I stopped playing baseball and man it was difficult to get back in it.
I've heard of ripping your bicep with mixed grip, hook grip hurts like heck but protects the bicep.
Unfortunately, **** happens. Could be a result of people trying to pull with their arms instead of letting them hang too. As far as the back goes, if you feel instability don't ignore it.
Do reverse curls and wrist extension exercises to inflame the **** out of that tendon for your tennis elbow. Forces blood flow to the tendon for healing.
It was pretty easy when my life insurance agent explained the reason my policy premium doubled was because their projections showed 90% chance paying out in the next 3 years.
Yeah I said that wrong. I use double hook grip. I meant to say a mixed grip. Bicep pointing forward, is what I hear was bad.
90% poor diet and 10% being weak, that’s about as simple/direct as it can be put into words.
I think that is some Scientology term.
I think I messed up by not doing deadlifts as a teenager. Left the back exposed while I was doing ego lifts.
good advice , I will try this. i won’t lay off and my right shoulder is 17’d
What is the pain? I had a 17ed shoulder forever from throwing batting practice too hard 7 years ago. I pushed blood to it like @grinnindawg said and it healed. A lot of cross grain massage and getting back to military press.
Some type of rotator cuff tendonitis. I need to stop incline pressing for a couple of weeks but I can’t stop. yea throwing batting practice is a risky maneuver.
It’s funny, when I wasn’t lifting heavy, I had all types of tendinitis. But I did a lot of yoga, and I had to train the body to move correctly again, and strengthen all the out-of-sync joints. Now that I’ve started lifting heavy I don’t have any pain, but I’m very careful, ie this thread. Again I did everything wrong as a teenager and 20s ego lifter. Mid 40s now.
I take collagen peptides, glucosamine chondroitan, turmeric and ginger powder, fish oil, and that works pretty well for joint health. But in your late 40s 50s, muscle is not the problem, joint health is. Have To modify how you lift. prioritize health.
Your shoulders are good if you still bench, my knees and ankles are good I no longer squat. I use a neutral grip and rep the hell out of moderately heavy incline dumbbells but can no longer flat bench. Took up road biking outside and alternate cardio with weights every other day. working out is a healthy addiction and exercise is the best medicine for stress.
Its true. If you want to be sore constantly, age horribly, have high blood pressure, be at risk of heart attack and stroke, tire down easily… keep ingesting animal products. It’s like putting gum into your insides.
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Even if you want to think in extremely simple terms which is probably extremely beneficial for you... A silverback gorilla is 10-20x stronger than most humans. They have become this over many many generations on solely a vegan diet. Carry on with your soreness and broken down pity party.
This has been my problem over the past five years (since getting married). I’ll get over one nagging injury, lift hard for six months, and develop another one. Strained a back muscle moving a fat fn patient at work and that took nearly a year to recover from. Bicep tendinitis, tennis elbow, impinged shoulder syndrome.. my legs have never been stronger tho.
