I Got My Test Results (BAD NEWS)
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Date: 2022-06-10
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Elijah
This is spot on. I've had several assorted (relatively minor) issues since getting back into working out hard this year. I tricked out my basement gym wit ha power rack setup so I could go hard and get a sick bench squat and deadlift. Well jokes on me, I cant bench or squat for the time being. I get bad shoulder clickign taht gets worse if I bench. And Putting my arms back to grab the bar in the squat makes my elbow tendons hurt (especially my right arm. I'm just working around them, while trying to progress the issues. Not sure how to fix the squatting one, because any stretches that put me in the same position also make my elbow start to hurt. But the shoulder clicking I'm doing tons of stuff to try and fix. Lots of stretches and rotator cuff work. Seems to be improving in a bumpy line. Where its getting better then gets a bit worse then gets better repeat. Just doing push up's instead of bench, and front squats instead of back squats. To anyone who read this far, make sure to take good care of yourself. If something feels wrong dont push it, it just gets worse. work to fix the issues as soon as they come up so you can have a long and happy lifting journey.
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This is spot on. I've had several assorted (relatively minor) issues since getting back into working out hard this year. I tricked out my basement gym wit ha power rack setup so I could go hard and get a sick bench squat and deadlift. Well jokes on me, I cant bench or squat for the time being. I get bad shoulder clickign taht gets worse if I bench. And Putting my arms back to grab the bar in the squat makes my elbow tendons hurt (especially my right arm. I'm just working around them, while trying to progress the issues. Not sure how to fix the squatting one, because any stretches that put me in the same position also make my elbow start to hurt. But the shoulder clicking I'm doing tons of stuff to try and fix. Lots of stretches and rotator cuff work. Seems to be improving in a bumpy line. Where its getting better then gets a bit worse then gets better repeat. Just doing push up's instead of bench, and front squats instead of back squats. To anyone who read this far, make sure to take good care of yourself. If something feels wrong dont push it, it just gets worse. work to fix the issues as soon as they come up so you can have a long and happy lifting journey.
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Tim
Great vid. I suffered a workplace accident which involved a 9 tonne truck pinning me against a wall (lucky to be alive tbh. Amazingly, I didn't break any bones, however the accident destroyed the muscles and tendons around my right shoulder, and at 23 years old, I was told by a doctor I might not get full use of my right arm again.
Enter stubborn 23 year old male mentality. Once I got out of the sleeve, I went back to gym and literally spent the next year rehabilitating my right arm. The last excersise I was able to do was the bench press and it took incredible patience to get back to my full capability, and years later actually getting PBs. I'm 35 now, know I have keep mobile and fit to keep injuries from slowing me down as I get older.
Jeff is on the money here. Hear the medical advice, but don't let the bad news stop you from keeping your body in shape.
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Great vid. I suffered a workplace accident which involved a 9 tonne truck pinning me against a wall (lucky to be alive tbh. Amazingly, I didn't break any bones, however the accident destroyed the muscles and tendons around my right shoulder, and at 23 years old, I was told by a doctor I might not get full use of my right arm again.
Enter stubborn 23 year old male mentality. Once I got out of the sleeve, I went back to gym and literally spent the next year rehabilitating my right arm. The last excersise I was able to do was the bench press and it took incredible patience to get back to my full capability, and years later actually getting PBs. I'm 35 now, know I have keep mobile and fit to keep injuries from slowing me down as I get older.
Jeff is on the money here. Hear the medical advice, but don't let the bad news stop you from keeping your body in shape.
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Bob
Excellent video Jeff and right on point! Wishing you a speedy recovery! I am approaching 66 years old and have been committed to sports and training my entire life (no longer play competitive sports of course but still ski hard at a high level and spend some serious time in the Colorado backcountry including guiding fly fishing and elk hunting. With aging and father time taking swings at me, it can be challenge! I've had both hips replaced, a rotor cuff repair and currently battling neck stenosis and carpal tunnel in both wrists BUT I still train hard (although of course far less weight than when I was younger focusing on controlling the weight and quality reps) and as you state find exercises that work the muscle groups without pain! Bottom line, the benefits of training far outweigh backing off. As they say, if you don't use it, you lose it!
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Excellent video Jeff and right on point! Wishing you a speedy recovery! I am approaching 66 years old and have been committed to sports and training my entire life (no longer play competitive sports of course but still ski hard at a high level and spend some serious time in the Colorado backcountry including guiding fly fishing and elk hunting. With aging and father time taking swings at me, it can be challenge! I've had both hips replaced, a rotor cuff repair and currently battling neck stenosis and carpal tunnel in both wrists BUT I still train hard (although of course far less weight than when I was younger focusing on controlling the weight and quality reps) and as you state find exercises that work the muscle groups without pain! Bottom line, the benefits of training far outweigh backing off. As they say, if you don't use it, you lose it!
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cheapshot
I agree with everything you said. Years of HEAVY behind the neck presses in my 20's, 30's & 40's led to a similar situation with my shoulders. I had to change my routine and find less painful alternatives. Keeping my ego in check was probably the most difficult part. The bad news I received from an MRI only motivated me to keep working out to strengthen some muscle imbalances using a different, probably healthier, overall approach. Admittedly, at 59 years of age, my strength is not what it was years ago but I'm still in much better shape than most men my age.
Thank you Jeff, and Jessie, for everything you do to help educate people that might otherwise give up and accept growing old along with the problems that go along with a sedentary lifestyle.
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I agree with everything you said. Years of HEAVY behind the neck presses in my 20's, 30's & 40's led to a similar situation with my shoulders. I had to change my routine and find less painful alternatives. Keeping my ego in check was probably the most difficult part. The bad news I received from an MRI only motivated me to keep working out to strengthen some muscle imbalances using a different, probably healthier, overall approach. Admittedly, at 59 years of age, my strength is not what it was years ago but I'm still in much better shape than most men my age.
Thank you Jeff, and Jessie, for everything you do to help educate people that might otherwise give up and accept growing old along with the problems that go along with a sedentary lifestyle.
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Moritz
Jeff, I have the same opinion as you, if you feel good continue to do the things you do and most like to do. What I also do (my father told me when I was just a kid) is to do not do too much of something, i. e. listem to your body, you must know you and you will do what you like as long as you wish.
This year I went to a doctor with a back pain, did a MRI as you and found some bone issues on my lower spine, but nothing to worry about. I asked if this may be caused by excess in my gym lifetime as I already are 54 years old, the doctor said that couldn't be sure and also told me that maybe my lifetime training maybe helped me to protect to do not get issues on my spine. as you Sly says: keep pushing!
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Jeff, I have the same opinion as you, if you feel good continue to do the things you do and most like to do. What I also do (my father told me when I was just a kid) is to do not do too much of something, i. e. listem to your body, you must know you and you will do what you like as long as you wish.
This year I went to a doctor with a back pain, did a MRI as you and found some bone issues on my lower spine, but nothing to worry about. I asked if this may be caused by excess in my gym lifetime as I already are 54 years old, the doctor said that couldn't be sure and also told me that maybe my lifetime training maybe helped me to protect to do not get issues on my spine. as you Sly says: keep pushing!
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Hubris
Another Gold video!
I lift, cardio and train bjj all at 51 and I roll with guys and girls that are young and healthy and I must constantly assess my physical abilities in order to keep training. I think this aspect of working out is greatly misunderstood if not completely ignored. If I am fighting and I know my shoulder is screaming in pain I must protect it and keep fighting. And if I am in the gym lifting I know that I cannot perform a barbell bench but I can do floor dumbbell presses without pain and without aggravating my shoulder injury more. No more squats with the barbell on my shoulders but that trap bar is my lower body best friend! Adapt and overcome!
Thanks for you efforts!
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Another Gold video!
I lift, cardio and train bjj all at 51 and I roll with guys and girls that are young and healthy and I must constantly assess my physical abilities in order to keep training. I think this aspect of working out is greatly misunderstood if not completely ignored. If I am fighting and I know my shoulder is screaming in pain I must protect it and keep fighting. And if I am in the gym lifting I know that I cannot perform a barbell bench but I can do floor dumbbell presses without pain and without aggravating my shoulder injury more. No more squats with the barbell on my shoulders but that trap bar is my lower body best friend! Adapt and overcome!
Thanks for you efforts!
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Simtime
well that suprises me i have to say, that you are basically going to ignore the report. if that was my report, what with the moderate to severe glenohumaral degenaration, and labral tearing with cysts and the like, most people would go, ok, i need to rest this at least for a while, and maybe get some treatment, and not make the tear worse. I suppose this is the problem with most if not all your income coming from this high level of fitness and activity. or is it a case that looking the way people do, all ripped and stuff, is rather addictive and hard to think any other way and will even risk further damage rather than rest, and let things heal. Its a worry isnt it.
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well that suprises me i have to say, that you are basically going to ignore the report. if that was my report, what with the moderate to severe glenohumaral degenaration, and labral tearing with cysts and the like, most people would go, ok, i need to rest this at least for a while, and maybe get some treatment, and not make the tear worse. I suppose this is the problem with most if not all your income coming from this high level of fitness and activity. or is it a case that looking the way people do, all ripped and stuff, is rather addictive and hard to think any other way and will even risk further damage rather than rest, and let things heal. Its a worry isnt it.
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sport
Interesting video! One important discussion I would have liked to see addressed though: at what point would you decide that your injury needed surgery, as opposed to just working around it?
E. g, I m seeing some other folks in the comments who had SLAP tears and have been able to work around it. I m glad that approach worked for them, but for my specific SLAP injury any biceps exercise just wasn t doable. Every time the biceps flexed it leaked joint fluid into the rest of my body and made the injury worse, until I finally got shoulder surgery. The recovery process sucked, but in my case it was 100% the right call.
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Interesting video! One important discussion I would have liked to see addressed though: at what point would you decide that your injury needed surgery, as opposed to just working around it?
E. g, I m seeing some other folks in the comments who had SLAP tears and have been able to work around it. I m glad that approach worked for them, but for my specific SLAP injury any biceps exercise just wasn t doable. Every time the biceps flexed it leaked joint fluid into the rest of my body and made the injury worse, until I finally got shoulder surgery. The recovery process sucked, but in my case it was 100% the right call.
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Koros
I broke my tibial plateau a few years ago. It was almost a year before I could normally; between surgery, PT, and walking around with a cane for a while. I lost a comical amount of mass on my left leg as a result of the extended immobility, and years later I still haven't fully been able to correct the imbalance. My days of squatting heavy are done, I have to keep the weight light with higher reps or I'll get a nice grinding sensation in my knee for a week or so. It's a bad feeling when you can't do what you do what you used to, but you have to figure out a way that works for you and do the best with what you have.
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I broke my tibial plateau a few years ago. It was almost a year before I could normally; between surgery, PT, and walking around with a cane for a while. I lost a comical amount of mass on my left leg as a result of the extended immobility, and years later I still haven't fully been able to correct the imbalance. My days of squatting heavy are done, I have to keep the weight light with higher reps or I'll get a nice grinding sensation in my knee for a week or so. It's a bad feeling when you can't do what you do what you used to, but you have to figure out a way that works for you and do the best with what you have.
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Lanny
Speaking to the choir. I m a kinesiologist and worked in occupational rehab for many years. Back when I was 14 I completely fractured my femur. This required several surgeries and took me a year to be able to walk in about a year and a half to be able to walk without a limp. In my 40s I did for Iron Man in four years in addition to a bunch of shorter triathlon and an ultramarathon run and 50 KM in the bush. If you do listen to your body and keep working it s amazing what the body can do. Thanks for this message it s what I preach as well. You re awesome keep sharing. Love it.
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Speaking to the choir. I m a kinesiologist and worked in occupational rehab for many years. Back when I was 14 I completely fractured my femur. This required several surgeries and took me a year to be able to walk in about a year and a half to be able to walk without a limp. In my 40s I did for Iron Man in four years in addition to a bunch of shorter triathlon and an ultramarathon run and 50 KM in the bush. If you do listen to your body and keep working it s amazing what the body can do. Thanks for this message it s what I preach as well. You re awesome keep sharing. Love it.
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