The not too serious get fit thread

[cokey]

Noticed my elbow joints bother during certain exercises; chinup more then pullups.. suggestions?

[Monster Dave]

Noticed my elbow joints bother during certain exercises; chinup more then pullups.. suggestions?

Do you feel it when you do other "pulling" exercises?

[sugarcrook]

That stuff doesn't do anything.  Save your money. 

[dropstharockalot]

Noticed my elbow joints bother during certain exercises; chinup more then pullups.. suggestions?

Need more info... location of pain, type of pain, injury history, ongoing conditions, etc...?


"Doctor, it hurts when I do this."
"Stop doing that."

[Slide Panda]

Most recently, I fired a middle round kick into my pad holder's elbow. His bad - wrong hold for the technique.  Regardless, the small bones on the top of my right foot took the hit.  It's about four colors and roughly the size of a football. It should make training today pretty interesting.

A sparring partner did that to himself on me some years back. He mistimed a round kick and clipped me as I was moving away - top of foot to my very pointy elbow and cracked the top of his foot... oop.

[cokey]

Insides of elbows onlywhen I do pullups, palms facing me..  injuries, never had any.. just started few months ago..  just turned 31 and played almost every sport from ages 10-21 then after tht only handball biking n blading and wrenching.

Last night anothee p90x night.. here was my dinner, dave shld aprove lol.

[He Man]

BEANS!!!! best food in the world. Fiber Protein, Low fat and make the beast with two backsing delicious. im having braised beef right now. onions, beef chucks and mushrooms. i forgot to put in carrots and peppers. didnt occur to me when i was buying stuff.

[cokey]

shrooms,  yuck..  -_-

[Speedbag]

That stuff doesn't do anything.  Save your money. 

+1

Seemed to make my knees worse.....

[akmnstr]

BEANS!!!! best food in the world. Fiber Protein, Low fat and make the beast with two backsing delicious. im having braised beef right now. onions, beef chucks and mushrooms. i forgot to put in carrots and peppers. didnt occur to me when i was buying stuff.

Man, Don't forget your veggies. 

Speaking of which my garden is starting to come in, which means I'm eating lots of veggies and less starch and carbs.  I also loose weight when my gardens start to produce which in my case, is a very good thing. 

[Monster Dave]

+1

Seemed to make my knees worse.....

Now that I call BS. Especially when it's been clinically proven to improve joint health. It's more likely that you took it and kept training hard expecting it to be a cure for a problem when it's not designed to be such.

[Monster Dave]

Question: can you make yourself sore from stretching too much??


Seems like an odd question, but I've been really sore (seemingly) from cycling. But it dawned on me this morning that I've been spending a LOT of time stretching (30 mins a day) and wondered if that could be contributing to slow recovery time from trauma on the muscle tissue.

[Slide Panda]

if you're really aggressive about the stretch yes - it'll make you sore. Though most times this only happens with some sort of assisted stretch, or if you're bouncing. IF you're doing a lot of other work like you are, small incremental progression is the key. You can increase your range of motion pretty quickly by moving in small steps, and you save yourself some wear and tear

[Monster Dave]

if you're really aggressive about the stretch yes - it'll make you sore. Though most times this only happens with some sort of assisted stretch, or if you're bouncing. IF you're doing a lot of other work like you are, small incremental progression is the key. You can increase your range of motion pretty quickly by moving in small steps, and you save yourself some wear and tear

Yeah, I think I've gone a bit Gung-ho with the stretching. My flexibility has increased pretty dramatically because I am putting a lot of effort into it, however what I'm noticing is that if I miss a day, my legs are really tight the next - so I haven't backed off; maybe I should.

I'm wondering if it's like when I started rock climbing and my finger tendons hurt for a solid month, then one day it all went away.

[Slide Panda]

Yeah, I think I've gone a bit Gung-ho with the stretching. My flexibility has increased pretty dramatically because I am putting a lot of effort into it, however what I'm noticing is that if I miss a day, my legs are really tight the next - so I haven't backed off; maybe I should.

Sounds like a little moderation is due. But you do push pretty hard so some tightness later on is natural, especially if you miss a day.

Key elements are not to go too hard, just hard enough (yeah it's a judgment call), moving slowly into each the bottom of each stretch - bouncing or jerky movement is a good way to tear or strain, and be warm - active or passive warm up doesn't matter there. When I say passive, I'm talking a hot shower, sauna etc to bring up you temp and help make things more elastic.