+ 8 Injured Areas thoughts and feedback
Working an injured area, use lights weights and high repetitions. Slow and concentrated reps will enable you to pinpoint the injury and determine your body's limitations. Warms up the area and provides the support of blood with its life giving oxygen and nutrients injury is radical, work through it and around it. Enduring the pain and not wanting to further abuse the area, begin to compromise and, in compromising, discover new movements. If able to arrange a groove to work just outside the direct pain area. Sometimes often requires an abbreviated movement, a subtle change of angle or grip that I may enjoy and retain as a standard in my workout. An injury can be the result of accumulative tears not repairing, with one rep serving as the final overload. Or it can be the result of doing a movement improperly with poor form from not warming up. Any injury is a learning experience, and if you let it will teach you its lessons. Slow down and re-evaluate your movements and the manner in which you perform them. Wanting to work the muscle in spite of the injury, you learn to really focus not abuse the injured area. It reveals to you a degree of your perseverance, the ability and willingness to work through pain carfully. To a bodybuilder an injury means loss of hard earned gains, its also seem to be the only time We learn anything new about our body's,I wish I could be as attentive during all my training as I am when I'm working an injured area.
Injurys bring new appreciation for the muscle, and the reflection of your training forever. Feedback and helpful hints is always welcome.
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Excellent post! You'd think this would be common sense to most lifters, but it isn't; so thx for writing it! +1
AAS dose stuff to your body and "mind" atleast your mind thinks so.....
I tore my left labrum about 2 years ago. I just let it go. It took a year before I was able to put full tension on it again. I've finally got full mobility and gained a little painless click.
A guy at my gym just had both shoulders done laparoscopically. One 8 weeks ago and one 6. He's fully recovered, cleared, and pressing his normal weight.
Myself I wish I'd have gotten it checked out and not lost that time. They can do some pretty amazing stuff these days.
Great post.
Thank you and thank you for the info and feedback.
RustyhookerWell written!
Thanks hooker
Good post mate....+1
Only just last night I was on YouTube looking at videosome on gym injuries.
The sound that comes from some of them pec tears is sickening.....but clearly guys lifting to heavey
Ouch, thank for stopping by.
Good post I agree bro and seems people think mind of matter and keep going, push, push push, but when the body has had enough you just spin the wheels...
I see way to many people push heavy weight in the gym......notice I said push, there not doing proper form and you can tell they don't have development on certain parts there strong and thick but no shape.
Then Lord behold they get hurt or pull something and seems at my gym its always the back they pull when there doing any exercise it's always there back......wtf.... Well then injury comes UN and they keep right on lifting no pain no gain brother.....I call bullshit on that one for this.... Then you see them spill over into another muscle group when they lift to much weight..... I try to exsplain this to them but they push all the weight in the world so what do I know.....
Need to listen to the body because the body wants what it wants no matter what your mind thinks.....
Well said
Good post. I agree and practice this myself when one area is injured. There are times when rest is required but most times switching it up with light weights will do the trick
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This is great advice. As a person who has suffered just about every injury possible, I can speak from experience that my biggest fault was trying to train through injuries. You have to take a little time off and assess what is wrong, and when you go back, don't do the same exercises and weight which hurt you in the first place. Also, take notice of the little pains, because those are the little warnings which turn into big injuries later in life.
I had one injury that was without any warning, but the rest were from me being stupid.
If I could give advice to my young testosterone fueled self, it would be: do more pulling exercises than push; don't get caught up in trying to bench super heavy; avoid upright rows; keep perfect form throughout your lifts and don't sacrifice form for additional weight; and if something hurts, don't take ibuprofen just to get through a workout. They say an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Good post. +3 great feedback Thank you.
ha ha this going to be the next new thing.....
Hitman187very interesting and useful info, +2 and thanks.... oh yea don't forget to review and vote ;)
I'm dealing with my first injury also the doctor cut strait down through my abs from my sternum just passed belly button I have no idea what to do kinda depressed about it can't train or finish cycle and going to have a massive scar down my stomach. It's only been since Sunday
lol, i am dealing with my first major injury right now. partial pec tear that has led to a winging scapula. i havnt trained upper body in 3 months and i am literally dying to train.
what you said at the end is very true, i have a new appreciation for muscle and training. i wouldnt say i took training for granted, but it has been A LOT harder than i thought to take the time off.
I feel your pain, today is 11 weeks since rotator cuff surgery. I trained legs and my uninjured side for the majority of time, but it is just not the same. Fortunately, I have one more week until I can use weights and shoulder feels good. I honestly get a little depressed when I can't work out but sometimes you just have to let it heal. You don't want that partial tear turning into a full tear. I've also torn both pecs--my left side was tendon from bone and that was reattached surgically. The other side was partial muscle from tendon, no surgery for that according to my doctor, although I saw that Layne Norton had his fixed. Not to mention, 3 weeks ago, I'm checking out my surgically repaired shoulder and notice my bicep looks a little funny. I do a little research and figure out that my long head biceps tendon tore sometime after my surgery. I go and see my ortho and he says "yeah, it's torn"...wtf. It doesn't require surgery, but I will lose a little bit of strength. (Google Robbie Lawler or Lee Priest if you are curious to what a lhb tendon tear looks like). Regardless of all of this bullshit, I will always workout--I may not be able to go as heavy as I once could, but I can still look and feel great.
Just wait until you do a calf. One of the worst I've ever dealt with. It seem to me like every day is a new injury to it. It's scary to even do them anymore you'll never forget the sound or the pop! Yea it's very hard standing on the side lines.