Important poll for a bodybuilding article - please answer

[user345008781]

Please answer the following poll on crepitus, clicks, cracks and pops. This will be published in an article next month in a bodybuilding magazine. I can not reveal which magazine until the poll and article is finalised. Thank you.

EDIT: This poll is only for those bodybuilders wtithout pain or previous injury i.e. benign clickers. Thanks!

[user345008781]

more please!

[jdmalm123]

what's your theory?

[user345008781]

what's your theory?

I will post the theory along with the results once this poll is complete along with the article. Do you get painless clicks also?

[jdmalm123]

I will post the theory along with the results once this poll is complete along with the article. Do you get painless clicks also?

Mainly, crackling in the ankles when rotating them and in the knee on deep-knee bending. Also, some crackling when I felx glutes or rotate at the low back (most frequent for me)

[user345008781]

Mainly, crackling in the ankles when rotating them and in the knee on deep-knee bending. Also, some crackling when I felx glutes or rotate at the low back (most frequent for me)

Thanks for the info.

[user345008781]

C'mon guys this is pathetic over 100 viewings and you can't muster the effort to click on a poll...

[user345008781]

bump

[otrebmu]

benching, ya

[user345008781]

benching, ya

Thanks, and on its own ever i.e. when you move your arm in a certain way etc? I get that.

[otrebmu]

flat barbell benching does it for me. i prefer a very small incline when i bench. feels much better

[user345008781]

flat barbell benching does it for me. i prefer a very small incline when i bench. feels much better

Pathalogically speaking, there is usually nothing wrong as long as there is no discomfort. Do you get the clicks on their own also i.e. without weights as i do?

[user345008781]

keep the votes coming

[user345008781]

Come on guys.

[wobemaster]

knees crack every now and then, nothing painful

[user345008781]

knees crack every now and then, nothing painful

Registered. Thanks.

[user345008781]

I need a sample of 50, so please keep voting.

[otrebmu]

Pathalogically speaking, there is usually nothing wrong as long as there is no discomfort. Do you get the clicks on their own also i.e. without weights as i do?

very very rarely. it happens about 60% of the time on flat barbell benching. i think lifting slow and controlled as well as warming up minimize it, or it could just be in my mind.

offtopic perhaps...

if i flex my calves so the heel drops, toes raise, and calve muscle flex (while keeping my leg straight) and then do a leg curl my calf pops. weird.

[user345008781]

Interesting. Well, it seems shoulders are most common thus far.

[jsmircich]

My hips, every morning, but never during lifting.

[user345008781]

My hips, every morning, but never during lifting.

Registered. Thanks.

[SoVeReIgN]

Looks like you've constructed your poll options to prove your own point.

I sometimes get clicking in my shoulder joints, but very rarely.

[partsRheavy]

I voted "no" because I never get them while lifting or in the larger joints. My shoulders and elbows are either silent or sometimes make very soft noises - no clicks or crackles.

However, I can make my thumbs and fingers crackle or click every once in a while. I can annoy people with my thumbs!

44 y.o. female - never any serious lifting injuries but haven't been lifting all that long. Have been doing distance walking for several years though.

You should ask about knees also. No trouble here, but I hear people (both males and females but they're usually over 40) talk about knees all the time.

[trygve]

EDIT: This poll is only for those bodybuilders wtithout pain or previous injury i.e. benign clickers. Thanks!

Ooops--I voted "no" and then read the rest of your post. I don't snap, crackle, or pop, but I have had my share of injuries over the last 30+ years of lifting, so I've leave it up to you whether to disregard my vote or not.

[user345008781]

Looks like you've constructed your poll options to prove your own point.

I sometimes get clicking in my shoulder joints, but very rarely.

Well, usually one tries to prove or falsify a hypothesis so....yes.

[Jessal]

My left ankle cracks when I rotate it or run for long periods. It's painless if it happens for a small amount of time, but begins to hurt after while.

[user345008781]

My left ankle cracks when I rotate it or run for long periods. It's painless if it happens for a small amount of time, but begins to hurt after while.

THanks for the comment.

[thebm]

my answer is yes, but
not especially in the mornings.
not especially in my shoulder, and
not especially in my legs, ankles, wrists.

so where is the plain yes? i mainly get it in my elbows, if i try to overextend my arms like im stretching them. i also got the occasional pop in the knees back before i had injuries. now my knee cracks all the time but that's after an acl reconstruction

[jambo10]

eveyrthing on my body clicks or pops, but none with pain really:

clicks:

knees - in the AM
ankles - in the AM
elbows - in the AM , and scattered times throughout the day

These I'd consider more of a pop noise than a click noise;
pops:

wrists - in the AM
upper back
lower back (when ive been standing for a long time - if i touch my toes itll pop 2 or 3 times its wierd)

hope this helps

[user345008781]

eveyrthing on my body clicks or pops, but none with pain really:

clicks:

knees - in the AM
ankles - in the AM
elbows - in the AM , and scattered times throughout the day

These I'd consider more of a pop noise than a click noise;
pops:

wrists - in the AM
upper back
lower back (when ive been standing for a long time - if i touch my toes itll pop 2 or 3 times its wierd)

hope this helps

THanks for the information.