working through pain!!

in the past 2.5 months of serious heavy lifting, i have suffered a "good many" pains and injuries....be it temporary or reoccuring...and sometimes i PUSH myself to far and i suffer!!! i STILL have a "hurting sternum" but i found what i needed to stay away from and i still work through pain...along with my elbows which throb certain days...IM GLAD i have kept goin becuase if NOT, then i wouldnt be where i am now...im kinda happy with strength and size!!! someday i will find the "straw that breaks the camels back" and i will be forced to stop, until then...go big or go home right?????

p.s im real bored and wanna tell stories!!!

It's a fine line between working thru it and doing even more harm. I'm treading that line right now with my shoulder. One more week, then a whole week off, after that I'll have to see how it is cause I'm starting MAX-OT that week.

It's athletes who find a way to work around temporary limitations BUT be very careful of overdoing doing it. Because even athletes have to take a break to rest and heal.

Paul

A friend helps you move, a true friend helps you move bodies.

Because even athletes have to take a break to rest and heal.

Yup... I take a well deserved break every 8-10 weeks of training.

Marc C. David - NGA CPT
Author of NoBull Bodybuilding
www.nobullbodybuilding.com

someday i will find the "straw that breaks the camels back" and i will be forced to stop, until then...go big or go home right?????

Huh?

With thinking like that.. me, pwolf66, t.j, axgar and crew will be working out well into our 70's while you are telling your kids stories at 30 something about the "good old days."

The "no pain no gain" shouldn't be taken literally. If my shoulder is out of the socket or it "hurts" in a bad way to do something.. I'm going to quit doing it. Find out why. Recover and heal and then go at it again..

No just bust thru and keep going.

Eventually that pain will turn into a life long injury that easily could have been avoid maybe with a $65 massage.

I admire your attitude about pressing on, but I strongly caution you to re-think your position.

Marc C. David - NGA CPT
Author of NoBull Bodybuilding
www.nobullbodybuilding.com

good old days??? i mean my sternum hurts from time to time, but i suck it up, the same with my elbow...but if my sternum started to POKE out of my chest, of course i will stop(wait a few seconds and hit the next set) nah im kiddin but ive leaned what bothers the sternum and elbows and i stopped doin them.....but i do hear yall older fellers....im glad yall are here to keep me in check!!!

WOW, where to start...

Your sternum hurts? Why would your sternum hurt? Let me take a wild guess... you wouldn't be bouncing weights off of your chest doing bench press, that would be on the BAD side of the spectrum. Would you be bridging your back also??? If while performing chest you touch your chest with any more force than... lets say a 5 lb weight would exert then you are wrong. If your ass comes off the bench and your squirming around you are wrong. All of this stuff will lead to things on the BAD side of the spectrum. I laugh out loud at guys in the gym who lift like this... hell with that form I could add 50 lbs to my lifts. Use good form and take the hit to your ego it'll keep you healthy.

Next point, before lifting you should be basically pain free. Joint pain is on the... you guessed it BAD side of the spectrum. God designed our bodies to feel pain for a reason. Joint pain ain't no joke (from a 2 time shoulder surgery award winner). If you feel pain in your joints while performing an exercise:

1. Check your form. 75% of the time the problem lies here.
2. Find another variation (bar, EZ bar, dumbell, cables, machines). 20% of the time the problem lies here, we aren't all made the same and some of us just can't do certainn variations.
3. Seek medical attention to find out what's wrong.

Muscular tweeks are a little different. If you tweeked your thigh and its uncormfortable when you do leg press, take a week off. If it's still nagging you when you come back just take it slow, warm up well, and don't go to maximum capacity until it heals completely.

I've almost always have something that's pulled or strained, but I never put stress on a joint with joint pain. It goes back to the old high school football question of "ARE YOU HURT OR INJURED BOY?"

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well i hurt my sternum doing weighted dips...i THINK my feet missed the foot steps and im short so the weight took me all the way down and my arms were still holding the hand grips and i kinda got STRETCHED...know what i mean? i dont bounce weights off my chest, but the day it really gave out was the day i brought the weight down too far and hit my chest.....wasnt much but enough to finish me off...

Good to hear. Point proven at the same time... injury caused by improper form. As long as you don't have bruising in the area, which would be attributed to torn muscles. I would think that if you take a week or two off from lifting chest and then ease back into it you should be fine. Thanks for clarifying... still happy I posted the whole bouncing, bridging bench press... someone in here does it and to him I say, "I'm laughing at you".

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