Whats the most annoying injury that keeps you from making gains? My vote is for anything having to do with the rotator cuff
Getting sick everytime I'm gonna pr
>>37629969
How often do you try to pr? I rarely ever go for a 1rm
Sciatic nerve damage/pain
Trust me, it fucking sucks
>>37629956
>>37630022
Classic image.jpg shitpost.
Sacroiliitis
>tfw my elbow is sore
It happened bowling actually and now I'm scared to lift. I tried some pullups and it didn't feel good.
>>37629956
i agree with rotator cuff. But also having minor non serious cuts on hands/fingers that are just deep enough to prevent you from lifting.
>>37630028
Sounds shitty. Does it just randomly flare up?
>>37630039
Cry more
>injury of the mind
I'm not self-disciplined
>>37630022
God gross
>>37630083
I'm retarded too.
>>37629956
Food poisoning
This isn't technically an injury, but it's so much worse than most run of the mill physical injuries as the heavy shitting, vomiting, and crying not only prevents your workout, but actively rapes your gains.
Is this the thread to talk about snap city?
OHPing yesterday I bought my ticket. Guess I momentarily stopped squeezing my glutes /core and I leaned too far back and now my middle and upper back hurts. Going to the Dr today.
Fuck. Might have to miss training should I do cardio instead
>>37630110
>crying
What are you? Some kind of pussy?
>>37630139
Ohp is easiest compound for snab siddy
>>37630022
>>37629956
Every time I see this girl all I can think of is that she was probably the girl that always smelled like pee and carrots in school
>>37630219
Based cara smells like flowers
>>37629956
I tried to sprint a mile back in high school when I was still pretty untrained and managed to fuck up some part of my calf area because when I kneel on it and try to go back up it hurts like a bitch if I'm too fast doing it. Been doing cardio lately and that plac always holds me back afterwards to the point where I can't walk because it'll hurt a shit ton (but I walk it off anyways and it returns to normal.) wish I knew how to fix it.
>>37630075
Yea, stretching and running help keep it in check. Fucking cunts smacked me in the spine with a skateboard so now I've got a little sliver of spine that digs into it whenever I twist/turn/sleep the wrong way
>>37629956
definetly lower back injuries
>>37629956
i have pain/weakness in my left shoulder when i bring the barbell back while doing OHP. How long should i rest for?
I fractured my 5th metatarsul in my left foot 3 months ago... you don't realize how much you use your feet to balance, i can feel dull pain in literally every lift..
bench, DL's, squats, military press... all put pressure on your feet, all hurt : (
I recently had a lumbar strain. It's been 3 weeks and I still can't do any weight bearing. Only swimming.
So I imagine anything to do with the lower back. Anything else you can easily work around.
>>37630480
I know that feel bro, all 5 of my metatarsals got broken at TKD. At first I thought I could still do upper, but nope, everything puts pressure on it and just stabbing pain
>>37630028
This or didn't sleep the night before. The latter happens to me way too often
Laterally tilted pelvis. My right side is lower than my left, significantly impacting gains on that side. The muscles on that side will not engage for the life of me.
Also possibly femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) which is where your hip bones are shaped wrong causing your bones to rub against each other. Not sure on that though waiting on x ray results.
>>37630022
>>37630262
Is this really her? Why are models almost always the ugliest people when they're not on photo shoot? Like I would get an average face, but they are just seriously ugly.
i stepped on burning charcoal with bare feet this weekend and have a giant ass burn blister on the bottom of my foot
just kill me
>persistent stress fractures on both second metatarsals
Basically if I run more than a few miles in a week, my feet break.
>not an actual injury but knee valgus during squats and fear of an ACL tear has kept my squat exactly the same for weeks
I have to work on basically every type of flexibility involved in the squat to get it to go away.
Chronic knee pain.
Ironicaly it hurts most when i bench
>>37629956
Lower back.
Can't squat or dead. Haven't been able to squat or dead in around 4 months. Feels real bad. Went to chiro and found out my hips are out of line. Can't afford anymore appointments. Kill me senpai
>>37630593
>take a picture of your resting face
>take a picture of you making a funny face
>compare the two
Dudes tend to hate duckface because it makes girls look retarded, same principle applies here
Tendonitis in my right knee
>>37629956
Knees and shoulders
>>37630539
jesus... all 5... you have to wear that shit ass boot for like 2months?
>>37630899
This. In every movement youre fucked
>>37629956
>>37630022
>>37630075
>>37630262
I fucking love this girl
She lets me get out my gay twink fantisies with out actually being gay
>>37630210
I realize this now
sucks so bad and embarrassing that a 45kg OHP is enough for some snappage
>>37630139
>standing OHP
found your problem. always do them seated, never had a problem in the 10 years ive done em.
>>37631779
But muh full body stabilization
>>37630666
>>37630362
>>37630521
Its defninetly low back. Mainly because can't do ANYTHING without aggravating it. No lower body. No upper body. Can't even sit or sleep if its bad enough, which affects healing.
I imagine a hernia might be on the same level, but never had one.
The fucking rotator cuff on my right shoulder shit never goes away and if fucks up my heavy bench
Subluxated shoulder.
Probably not the worst but it's what I have now and it sucks donkey dick.
I have a plexus injury since birth so I don't have the ROM to ohp or do bench with necessary form. I ruptured my retinaculum on my ankle so I have a cast on for 6 weeks and may need surgery afterward. I won't be able to run, rock climb, or do anything like that for maybe even a year if I want it to heal properly. Check your privileges :^)
My groins get pulled when I squat, Ive changed my form 4 or 5 times and no matter what once I start getting decent gains one of them pulls and Im back to square one
>>37631779
Note how he said he stopped bracing his core and flexing his glutes so it's not the exercise that's fault, it's him yet a bitch made faggot like yourself tells people to sit down because he's weak
>>37630908
Boot? I'm Australian son; they strapped my foot with a bandage, gave me 2 weeks worth of anti-inflammatory and sent me on my way. I was fit and back in at training a month later.
>>37629956
Not a physical injury but financial instability and I keep having family members die about once every 5 months and have to fly home to do funerals and its throwing me off. I've been been into getting to the gym for about a year and a half now and since then my father and brother both died, and a couple months ago my best friend died. It's like I want to go but I keep going through these episodes of crushing depression where I'm just exhausted and tired all the time and have no energy. Feels bad. Just started back to the gym this week, hopefully nobody dies this time around.
>>37630089
you could literally never get a girl like that
Have really bad triceps tendinitis
And it swels up if I go over 2 plates on bench
So now I do low weight on Incline dumb bell waiting for this ride to end
being a pussy
>>37629956
My autism
I had jaw surgery 5 days ago. Can't chew anything. Pain meds make me loopy as fuck so no lifting. Shit sucks friends.
>>37633426
This is the same for me, I pick up squat again after I heal and I'm fucked up back to deadlift and leg press only soon enough.
>>37629956
cntrl f
no sauce
did cara's shit get leaked?
>>37629956
hamstring
>>37629956
Broken spirit
>>37629956
wrists, such a minor area and the rest of you can be totally fine but makes doing so many things hard as fuck or impossible if they're injured.
Right now it's hip flexor shit and I think I have a pulled quad. Kill me.
i have IBS and an eating disorder so it's really hard for me to get my caloric surplus, let alone my caloric maintenance. i can eat more than 2 cups of food without getting extremely nauseous.
it fucking blows but at least i am making gains, as slow as they may be.
>>37629956
Hip flexor fucks up my squat gainz
>>37633361
Shit are you me? I found warming up by jumping rope and arm circles has helped immensely with my rotator cuff. Also foam rolling the arm pit is god tier for this.
>>37633479
I asked for injuries anon. I never asked to feel goddammit
Having no motivation to eat
>>37629956
inb4 99
I randomly got bodybuilders shoulder that needed to have surgery about 2 years ago. I literally couldn't do any press and all totaled it was 18 months before I could start working out again this Christmas. After 6 months I am getting much closer to where I used to be tho (muscle memory is real brehs)
Unfortunately I still have a persistent bicep muscle belly tear (not tendon) that WILL NOT HEAL no matter how long I give it. I have twice given this fucker up to 6 months of no pull whatsoever only to have it come back again. The only thing that seems to have improved it is lifting, it still hurts I can just do heavy weights now before it kicks in. Negatives have done wonders.
>>37629956
Shin splint in right leg due to muscular imbalance. Used to skateboard a lot. Left calf is bigger than right. Leads to running injuries.
>>37633719
>>37634094
Being women with no appetite does not count as an injury ffs. Just put on the piano mans videos when youre eating for that there bulking motivation. GET BIG
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Have had surgery due to my left rotator cuff now my right is playing up,
Anyone having any advice on what to do or their routine?
>>37633479
Fuck man, that's some heavy shit. Sounds like an incredibly tough time, but I'm impressed that you're even still dragging yourself to the gym. Keep it up man.
>>37629956
so uh are there more of shit set?
>>37634726
I've had shoulder issue on my left side to a point where I wasn't able to do any pushing excerises. I was told to incorporate dead hangs shoulder width on a pull-up bar. Been doing them and my shoulder pain is completely gone. Give it a shot bro
>>37634815
*this set
Broken vertebrae
Shoulder.injury
>>37634823
Cheers will add it in
>>37634823
Ive always been told to never dead hang on a pullup bar and to always pack my shoulders when hanging. Is that just bro science?
>No cartilage left between L5 and S1.
T-t-thanks starting strength
my birth
>>37634899
Dont drop from the bar but unpacking your shoulders just hanging shouldnt be harmful, idk why it would be
I broke my heart about a year back.
>>37634871
No prob, I've been doing them at then end of all my workouts. About 3 sets as long as you can till your grip gives out. Noticed huge difference in 2-3 weeks
>>37629956
High ankle sprains because no ankle mobility whilst trying to sckwat
>>37629956
Recently got a boxer's fracture so I can't lift for atleast another 3 weeks :( kill me
Tendons
The fact that resting a injured tendon makes it atrophy
The only reliable way to make it heal is to do loads of shitty lightweight work for your support muscles then cut your lift weight in half and slowly build it back up over fucking weeks of bad gains
Or at least thats how i healed up my rotator cuff strain.
>>37634968
too deep for me
>>37634899
deadhanging is good for you.
What you shouldnt do is drop from the top position of the pullup to a dead hang without controling the motion
>>37629956
Tendonitis.
>6 months without lifting
>I can feel my gains leaving my body
>killmeplease.jpg
>>37629956
MY MIND
THE ONLY THING THAT KEEPS ME BACK IS MY MIND
MY BODY IS MY SLAVE
AND I AM
THE FUCKINGGGGGGG MASTERRRRRRRRRRRRF
FUCK YESSSSS
Mind and body numbing depression.
>>37633713
>>37633856
Fucking hip flexors. My left one has been acting up for 6 weeks now. Haven't squatted in over a month and it's not looking like I'll be able to this week either.
Medfag here, if you suspect you have tendonitis, for the love of God don't continue lifting because you could be setting yourself up for a rupture in the long run. At some point the tendon will fail to heal and will just regress until it's useless and you won't be able to do much about it at that point. Also, consider yourself lucky because a good number of people have their tendons rupture without any warning signs (i.e. pain).
Don't completely stop using the tendon but like >>37635510 said you should first do some very light weight mobility exercises so as to aid in the correct healing of the tendon. After a month (time is variable but a month reduces the risk of a recurrence) you can go back to lifting, but obviously start off with light weights and not what you were lifting originally.
Finally, if you can't seem to get rid of the pain, see a PT. I'm pretty sure seeing a PT is cheaper than seeing a doctor and unlike chiros, they're actually using evidence based techniques. You can go to a doctor but most likely he'll just tell you to go see a PT as well.
>>37633442
U wot m8???
>>37635776
seconding this, never go to a doctor for sports related injuries, they have no clue what to do. Go to a pt
>>37633583
When I had mine I had gains out the ass. Literally made it so my muscles did not feel sore whatsoever and I just went ape shit with the deadlifts. Went up a full plate in about 2 weeks
>>37634899
Dude dead hanging is great for healthy shoulders
Bicep tendon. Can't do any bicep exercises, can't do any chest exercises, can't do any shoulder exercises, All im left with is triceps, core and legs.
>>37629956
>dislocated arm while snowboarding
>it's taken years to recover my bench even with the luck of having all my tendons still intact
Literally hell; recover back to being usable was like 6 months, had to drop anything to do with shoulders by 50% and progress takes twice as long now
>>37629956
Anything that prevents me from doing squats, ligament tears not muscle tears, the ones that take months to heal.
>>37633334
I've had a hernia it fucking sucks and the surgery rapes your gains
Bout to drop the motherload on yall:
2 years ago i broke my
>heel (10 peices)
>ankle
>both wrists (radius and ulna)
>Both hips (acetabular facutures)
>chest
>Lumbar 1 vertebrae (burst fracture collapsed both my lungs)
>left index figer.
I still lift. Git some gainz but not much. Very painful. Bout 175lbs at 5'11" bench around 200lbs
bicep tendinitis
I don't really have any injuries that interfere with what I do everyday.
Being a big guy at 250 lbs, I do notice after doing so many push ups and dips in a day that my wrists seriously hurt like I fucked up a nerve though.
Never happened when I was younger. I am talking 50 pushups/dips at a time. I have since reduced the amount and don't notice it as much but it does decrease my performance.
>>37637645
do you do any wrist prehab at all? Used to have pain/discomfort when I was training for advanced planche but doing prehab 3 times a week helped so much
>>37633707
yep. sucks ass.
>>37637570
Fuck me. Are your bones made of glass?
Knees.
Seems like our family runs bad knees. Some shit about the patellar and whatever makes it move smoothly is naturally shitty in our family, resulting in increased pressure that the patellar is pressed against the knee with.
Basically I went up to a 4 pl8 squat, never had any issues, squattet textbook regarding knee travel etc and still my knees now hurt even at body weight squats.
The moment I flex my quads while my knees are somewhat bent just triggers a nasty pain.
No idea what to do now. I am currently stretching everything around the knees, but if we are honest, stretching almost never works and I will have to stop squatting forever.
>>37637671
To be honest I don't even know what prehab is. Pre habilitation? Loosening the wrists up before a workout?
>>37637570
What did you hit?
>>37638366
Look for a torrent named smth like
Mastering GST Foundation one handstand one
go to the handstand part of the pdf and there will be 4 prehab exercises with their own progression as your wrists get stronger. you want to do them 2/3 times a week. prolly 2 at first
>>37634918
Ss claims another victim
>>37630570
cant you just get insoles in one shoe?
>>37635742
Hips are the worst. I dislocated my left hip when I was younger and now I have such significant hip shift in the squat that my right knee is fucked from too much forward travel. The increased range of motion is also screwing up my right hip flexor and throwing my whole body out of whack.
>Why didn't my parents take me to a doctor when I was younger?
>>37629956
My feels, OP.
My feels.
;_;
>>37629956
As a guy who needs to go really easy on his knees for the next month or so - yeah, I can imagine that a rotator cuff problem is even more annoying.
>>37639275
Wut happend
>>37635776
do you have any thought on rotator cuff bursitis?
The light weight shoulder exercises seem to help but I'd like to be able to swim again at some point
>>37630645
>>37630733
>>37630899
I banged my left knee up in 2012 it's just now back to 100%.
>>37629956
>fucked up my right rotator cuff in summer last year
>can't do shoulders properly. put in more chinups and pullups in routine to work rear delts and back and arms
>it's just gotten better
>go to the doctor today and get diagnosed with tennis elbow from doing too many pullups
>>37640540
>pull/chin-ups in order to hit rear delts
You went full retard. Try doing some research before you randomly do something that you think has a certain effect.
>>37630022
>>37630075
>>37634899
>>37631571
Shit man are u me? I was about to say the same thing. She's very feminine but somehow androgynous as fuck. In my fantasy she wears a loose-fitting sweater and a snapback with her hair tucked underneath, full fucking tomboy.
>>37629956
Twisted ankle. You can't do anything. Sitting down makes it swell.
With a rotator cuff injury I still was able to squat and isolate arms.
With my twisted ankle, it was impossible to do anything.
Although the feeling of barely being able to walk and still outsquatting most of the gym was something that still makes me proud of myself.
It took a power cage and the sissy squat contraption we have in out gym, squatting from the bottom position, for those who wonder how it's even possible.
>>37633484
good
Does severe crippling depression loneliness friendless was permavirginity and misery so that you have no motivation to even work put because you don't see the point since your life always has been and will be shit count as an injury?
>>37630278
I have that too man.
I was squatting with 425 going ATG. Squatted too low and fucked my shit up when my butt winked.
>>37630219
I went to school with a girl who is now a SI swimsuit model. She was plain looking. Like if you had a conversation about the hottest girls in our graduating class, her name would have never come up. Real nice though.
Torn labrum
Had surgery on it 4 months ago
Went well, then I pushed it too soon and probably retore it. Seeing docs on thurs
>>37640929
Girls that peak out in HS become fat cows. There are a few porn stars who were band geeks in HS like Lexi belle ava Taylor etc. many geeky girls in hs blossom quite beautifully
>>37640904
ok idk what a butt wink is but im never squatting again untill someone shows me what a butt wink is
holyfuck im just gonna stay with light squats...............
>>37640693
>http://exrx.net/WeightExercises/LatissimusDorsi/BWChinup.html
>Deltoid, posterior
???
fucking lower back pain. it flares up at random, one morning I wake up with it and I know that the next 4-5 days will be fucked. then I get some peace for 1-2 days and it starts all over again. although recently I am starting to notice a pattern of it having to do with alcohol consumption. maybe there's hope that my shit is not permanently snapped. I really hope it's muscle inflammation and not vertebral damage. doctors and physio haven't found shit
>>37641130
Did it link an EPG about muscle activation? No.
It randomly claims that the muscle is meaningfully involved.
It's not and any serious source will tell you to do barbell rows instead.
>>37630028
As an anon who has to wagecuck on his feet 40 hours a week, I'm surprised I'm still standing upright
>>37641143
Fix your hip as in stretch it, work your glutes and hamstrings and core.
Do some heavy resistance hangs when your lower back cramps up.
>>37641043
Butt wink is when you blow your asshole out at the bottom of the lift. Upon closer inspection, the gaping crevice that was your asshole looks like its winking
Nasty stuff
>>37641295
>He wants an EPG about muscle activation
Nigger do a full fucking ROM chinup and you can literally feel your posterior delts bunching up, how hard is this
Nobody ever said they were the best exercise for delts but to flat out deny that they're involved at all is just retarded
>>37641043
Buttwink is when your hip tilts posteriorly due to your hips running out of ROM.
I have very deep hip sockets so my femur hits my illiac crest and causes my hip to shift too much which puts stress on your vertebrae. This essentially causes an outward pushing motion by causing the verebrae to put stress on the discs themselves.
>>37641413
Fact is that if you do chin ups for your rear delts your are going to have your shoulder blown out as soon as you stop benching less than three plates.
The exercise is absolute trash for read delts, ask anyone that ever touched heavier weights.
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>>37641310
I do dead hangs when my back hurts, it sorta fixes it temporarily. I feel it click and pop into place but it doesn't last very long. can you give me some specific stretches?
>>37641554
when you described your injury it sounded like it was one isolated incident that caused you to have permanent damage. is that exact? can you pinpoint one moment where your shit went from not fucked to fucked? how did it feel on the moment?
>>37630593
Fashion designers are all homos, pedos or both
>>37629956
forearm tendonitis, 6 months having it.
>>37630570
I have this.
You can see the difference in the shape of my obliques, left thigh is 0.75" thinner and left foot arch is dropped.
I also have some weird sciatic type pain on that side which comes and goes regularly buy bizarrely does not restrict my ROM
Id rather not get orthotics as it seems like a crutch. This is musculoskeletal. It must be possible to fix it with correct exercise.
Have you had any luck with correcting yours?
>>37631571
Huh. You're right. Agreed!
I'll stay a fag though cus you never see chicks like this IRL
>>37629956
Loose piece of cartiledge in my left knee, knee can be blocked literally any moment, causing severe pain. Lower back weird pain, some other problems probably requiring surgeries.
Also, FEELS.
>>37641903
I was going for a 3rd rep after barely getting 2. I was just trying to push myself.
I went down too low and felt my hip tuck and then on my way back up on the second rep, I felt a slight pain in my left side of my lower back. Stupid me of course trying to push myself went down for a 3rd rep anyway. I got stuck in the middle but completed the rep. When I finished I felt a slight pain but after the endorphins fainted it was much worse.
Just don't be stupid and don't go past technical failure on squats and you'll be fine. My case was an isolated ego driven cause.
>>37630139
Fuck I think OHP messed me up today too. I don't know what I did wrong but an hour after working out my middle back now hurts quite a bit. Tomorrow is a regular rest day so I'll keep off it but hopefully it won't effect my Thursday lifts too much.
hernia or low back disc injury
Went through hernia surgery about 2.5 years ago; still a bit sore some days due to nerve entrapment. Have a touch of back pain, but that's getting better with a stretching/inversion/yoga combo to shore up the area.
>>37629956
Tendinitis, that shit strikes back like the motherfucking empire whenever I'm about to or have just busted through a pr
