+ 1 Increasing Tendon Strength
Hi y’all. I think a lot of us here mostly focus on increasing muscle, strength and decreasing fat. Heck it’s what we can see in the mirror everyday. I also think a lot of us know that tendons tend to be the weak point and limiting factor in lifting big weights. You hear all the time of people on aas rupturing tendons as muscle strength increases drastically compared to our tendons. So I’ve been searching around here and couldn’t find much on how to increase tendon strength. I’ve always thought that to increase tendon strength we need to do very high rep and full range of motion movements to increase their strength over time. I’ve been doing some googling and I came across a link I’d like to share with y’all. It’s a quick read and explains what tendons are what they do and how to strengthen them. Here is the link.
https://www.marksdailyapple.com/why-training-your-tendons-is-important-a...
I’d also like to hear your thoughts, experiences and philosophies on increasing tendon strength. I’m in to arm wrestling and you can imagine how much we rely on our tendon and ligament strengths as our fingers hands and wrists play a huge factor in arm wrestling. Anyway thanks for reading. I hope the link helps some of you and I definitely would like to hear your thoughts on this subject.
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I felt my tendons, ligaments & flexibility were at their best when I was training heavy everyday. Rep ranges varied from 15x1 10x2 8x3 @ RPE of 8.5-9. Squats & overhead pressing benefitted the most, but if I was doing bench or dips everyday I found it too much for the shoulder girdle.
Taking lots of Vitamin C, Glucosamine can help the tendons. Bit C is good for connective tissue repair! Drink lots of water too!
There was a post put up about this only the other week that I commented on - HGH is the main compound that repairs ligaments and tendons, also increasing their strength. Others merely produce collagen etc that masks pain and lubricates them more.
Oh I must have missed that post. I was trying to figure out how to focus on training the tendons to increase their strength. I think if we could we would all be a lot stronger and avoid a lot more injuries. It’s especially important in arm wrestling as the fingers hands and wrists are mostly tendons and ligaments. This subject is super important to me I can’t stop researching it haha. Thanks for that info though I just don’t have money to drop on hgh it’s kinda expensive. And I’m iffy on the generic stuff ya know? If I can I want all pharma grade stuff.
Don't get stupid with heavy weights and you should be fine. I don't lift heavy anymore. Absolutely nothing under 6 reps for me anymore. Instead of going heavier I slow the tempo down. 4 sec eccentric is the ticket. Slow controlled reps and if you can do eight slow controlled reps then shoot for 10 and then 12. Once I hit 12 reps then I up the weight. Also shortening time between reps is another way to go to prevent you from heaving heavy weights around.
Power/strength athletes probably have to be more concerned about messing up a tendon than hypertrophy based bodybuilders. Hypertrophy based training is not centered around around doing low rep maxes and is more forgiving to tendons. Hypertrophy's foundation is time under maximum tension, and not how heavy the weight is like for strength training.
I absolutely agree makwa and thank you for the experienced info. I was just wondering and wanting learn how to strengthen the tendons specifically. Mostly for my sport but thought others could also benefit with the knowledge of increasing tendon strength.
Yeah i hear all the time dont max out just keep the weight the same just increase volume. Its how i hurt my self . I had this mind set "wow getting alot stronger " lets see how much i can do. It turned to be a bad idea. But if say for example i can get 8 reps for 5 sets with a weight. My increase should be add reps to the sets or add sets to the whole routine. Or both. Not hey lets see if i can add 60 pounds to my one rep max . Like putting a bigger motor in your tow truck but not up grading the winch lines.
That’s exactly what I hear too bill. Just up the reps/ sets. I think if we can learn to train and strengthen our tendons then we would be a lot stronger overall. That’s why I posted the link it looks like there are plenty of ways to do this so I hoped it would help everyone out because I plan on implementing these training techniques myself. I’m sorry to hear you hurt yourself bro how did it happen. I actually hurt myself 4 years back with an idiotic cross fit workout. It was something like 30 clean and jerks for time ended up fucking up my back went to the doctor and found out I had two herniated discs. L4-L5 and L5-s1. It took around six months of physical therapy but I’m stronger then ever now thank god and just stick to mostly power lifting now.