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[AdamantiumYoke]

No why do you ask?? My mom has fibromyalgia. The orthopedic I went to didn't seem to think my back issue is too serious and sent me to a physical therapist to see if after a few weeks that helps, and if not then he would do other tests or whatever.

Nothing serious... its just that many a times, people take it for temporary tightness or chronic simple pain but it can turn out to be much stubborn and serious problem. It's better to be cautious than sorry. Do you feel any "friction" between back muscles when elevating, depressing scapula ? or shrugging and pinching?
If the therapy is working... good for you. Recover soon.

[mike8190]

Nothing serious... its just that many a times, people take it for temporary tightness or chronic simple pain but it can turn out to be much stubborn and serious problem. It's better to be cautious than sorry. Do you feel any "friction" between back muscles when elevating, depressing scapula ? or shrugging and pinching?
If the therapy is working... good for you. Recover soon.

Yeah I mean I've never had a lingering/chronic pain so I've been under the impression (but hoping it's not) it could be more serious. I don't think I notice anything between back muscles, I get a lot of tightness, popping, and soreness in my shoulders. Just very tight erectors (in general, not when moving my scapula) and it feels like things are moving in there (lower back). Also my hips there's a lot of popping say, when I stand up after sitting for a while. Or if Im compressing those joints there's pain. Cracking in my knees, tight ankles..I feel like a mess sometimes :/ But yeah the past two weeks I've seen definite improvement from therapy.

[AdamantiumYoke]

Yeah I mean I've never had a lingering/chronic pain so I've been under the impression (but hoping it's not) it could be more serious. I don't think I notice anything between back muscles, I get a lot of tightness, popping, and soreness in my shoulders. Just very tight erectors (in general, not when moving my scapula) and it feels like things are moving in there (lower back). Also my hips there's a lot of popping say, when I stand up after sitting for a while. Or if Im compressing those joints there's pain. Cracking in my knees, tight ankles..I feel like a mess sometimes :/ But yeah the past two weeks I've seen definite improvement from therapy.

Do you feel any dizziness? numbness? headaches? and do you sit in the same posture for long hours ?
Did the doc check the Sacroiliac joint and surrounding area ? have you been checked for osteoarthritis ? many athletes see high uric acid and calcium levels too. But that's a different story. I think if the therapy is showing significant promise, then all is well.

It's just that I have many close people who have either suffered from similar problems or specialise in alternate therapies of sports injuries.
do you feel any dizziness? numbness? headaches? and do you have to sit in the same posture for long hours ?
EDIT: edit:- Fibromyalgia , like many other chronic problems is said to have been associated with genetics too. So there is a possibility. Nothing wrong in being preventive.

[mike8190]

Do you feel any dizziness? numbness? headaches? and do you sit in the same posture for long hours ?
Did the doc check the Sacroiliac joint and surrounding area ? have you been checked for osteoarthritis ? many athletes see high uric acid and calcium levels too. But that's a different story. I think if the therapy is showing significant promise, then all is well.

It's just that I have many close people who have either suffered from similar problems or specialise in alternate therapies of sports injuries.
do you feel any dizziness? numbness? headaches? and do you have to sit in the same posture for long hours ?

only the past couple months having to sit long hours. I get numbness in my feet and toes, that's been going on for quite some time. And when I sit for a while I sometimes get pins and needles in my leg. It's not too often tho. Headaches too, altho not so much, used to get really bad migraines with visual auro up until a couple years ago, haven't had one in a while.

No they didn't check the sacroiliac joint/area. Haven't been checked for anything else. I have an appointment today I'll bring these things up.

[AdamantiumYoke]

only the past couple months having to sit long hours. I get numbness in my feet and toes, that's been going on for quite some time. And when I sit for a while I sometimes get pins and needles in my leg. It's not too often tho. Headaches too, altho not so much, used to get really bad migraines with visual auro up until a couple years ago, haven't had one in a while.

No they didn't check the sacroiliac joint/area. Haven't been checked for anything else. I have an appointment today I'll bring these things up.

If that is the case... get your blood volume and RBC count checked too. I hope not, but it can turn out to be polycythaemia too. [thick blood] Some of the symptoms are matching.
How do you feel about this exercise? any pain ?

Good luck bro.

[mike8190]

If that is the case... get your blood volume and RBC count checked too. I hope not, but it can turn out to be polycythaemia too. [thick blood] Some of the symptoms are matching.
How do you feel about this exercise? [img]http://weightlossandtraining.com/images/Exercises/oblique-side-bends.jpg[mg] any pain ?

Good luck bro.

No no pain.
Thanks for the advice man.

[Larfleeze]

[flangmasterj]

^ Why does that make me so rustled?

[TrinityRN]

Wow I thought I saw it all
This was the worst...

[purdey]

He seat belted himself in with a chain... badass

[TropicalSunset]

Poor guy. His ego is probably caught up in being the strong guy, so he does stuff like this thinking he is going to impress people.

[Larfleeze]

^ Why does that make me so rustled?

There probably weren't any plates for anyone else in the gym
He's even using a ****ing barbell, a bunch of clips and at least two dumbbells
He probably thinks he's some sort of badass and stronger than Ronnie

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[203mh]

For some reason he reminds me of a friend of mine who's above 30% bodyfat

"Do a full rep"
"Why do you wear gloves while training?"
"The smith machine doesn't count"
"Machines are for pussies"
"You guys are small."
"You see that bicep vein coming out?"
"Oh somebody skipped leg day"

You'd think one would learn after few trips to the doctor for injuries in under a year, no?

[flangmasterj]

[SammyJr]

During lunges/squats etc do your knees cross the toes levels ? Very long gaps are actually better as they focus more on glutes n hams with much lesser impact on the knees directly. And HIIT in itself isn't bad but quite the opposite. Many oly and powerlifters use it. But doing it everyday, with full on intensity and with weights does take the toll on CNS and Joints heavily unless you are on juice. On bike, I don't think it will affect much, but only you know how intense you tend to go. sled pushing and sprinting is much better than inclined treadmills, barbell complexes etc IMO. What I know is that about 3 days of HIIT, spaced properly from legs n back days are enough for optimal conditioning. [ not to sound like an expert, all this I have either read or learnt from my on other's experiences]
The friend used to do all kind of crazy ****. But he was a district level oly lifter so no one cared to advise him lol. He used to do those over the head barbell squat-jumps for 30+reps reps on cardio days. One day he just felt a snap, had some internal bleeding, partial tear I guess. Had to get surgery done.Now he is good but full extension of leg still huts, calf- stretching hurts, and he wont be doing any oly lifting any soon. My old gym had all kinds of idiots, trying farmer's walk on the treadmill, skipping rope with weights tied to the ankles, endless kicking with toes on the punching bag. I wonder if they are even alive lol.

Do you do those Agile 8 or Limber 11 routines etc? Work like wonder for ham and lower back problems. [apologies for the long-ass post]

Edit: addition:- Also try to get your uric acid level checked.

yeah i thought long gaps were also good, but I think im going too long. Plus I think I know one major contributor to my knee pain. Or at least I hope this is it. I went from 171 lbs to 180 lbs in only about 2 weeks (mostly creatine), so I hope all that weight is what was placing stress on the joints. idk tho. Strangely enough my strength hardly went up.

Sometimes they do pass the toes, so I gotta be more mindful of that, I hear that's pretty bad on the knees

What's weird is what really starts to hurt my knees is driving. Hitting the pedal and releasing etc has really been taxing on my right knee. Also it tends to feel painful even sitting down doing nothing. :/


I bought a ton of joint supplements so I'm really hoping my knees feel better very soon.


the magnesium is for something else

[flangmasterj]

**** Bostin Loyd is running less supps than you Sammy.

[endurancell]

yeah i thought long gaps were also good, but I think im going too long. Plus I think I know one major contributor to my knee pain. Or at least I hope this is it. I went from 171 lbs to 180 lbs in only about 2 weeks (mostly creatine), so I hope all that weight is what was placing stress on the joints. idk tho. Strangely enough my strength hardly went up.

Sometimes they do pass the toes, so I gotta be more mindful of that, I hear that's pretty bad on the knees

What's weird is what really starts to hurt my knees is driving. Hitting the pedal and releasing etc has really been taxing on my right knee. Also it tends to feel painful even sitting down doing nothing. :/


I bought a ton of joint supplements so I'm really hoping my knees feel better very soon.

[IMG]http://i60.tinypic.com/20kucrk.jpg[IMG]
the magnesium is for something else

If your knee hurts just from driving and even while doing nothing, there's gotta be an underlying injury because thats not normal lol.

Also if you wanna get something better to supplement your joints, puritanspride has a msm, chondroitin and glucosamine 2x a day pill that is cheap as hell in bulk. You can even get a vitamin d3 supp. I remember taking cissus when i first got injured and it helped somewhat but was too expensive to keep getting

[TropicalSunset]

Sammy you are a crack up like always. Your body hurting is basically your body letting you know that something you are doing it not working. Instead of taking all of these supplements try to figure out what it is that is hurting you.

I admire your hard work ethic, but sometimes doing less is doing more, especially if you are going to be injured and not able to train as the other option.

[B-Neva]

[mbamboocha112]

Ronnie Who?

[Jevyzzz]

Ronnie Who?

i was waiting 4 him 2 take it off the rack at least

[TropicalSunset]

HAHAHAHAHAHA....love this guy. But to be honest, as much fun as we make of him, he probably gets a good workout just setting up all the plates he then proceeds not to lift.

Or do you think he is a guy who just leaves the weights on the rack? Imagine finding that in the squat rack....hehhehehe.

[V.I.C]

Ronnie Who?

What did I just watch?

[Unbiasedfan]

1650lbs? ta fuk.

Hope he is trolling

[JAMES140haha]

*****://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvElWw6gefs



A buddy of mine doing the gym THUG LYFE vids

[bartosh]

[Kiwi_]

Huh is seriously hairy for a half asian

[braskibra]

yeah i thought long gaps were also good, but I think im going too long. Plus I think I know one major contributor to my knee pain. Or at least I hope this is it. I went from 171 lbs to 180 lbs in only about 2 weeks (mostly creatine), so I hope all that weight is what was placing stress on the joints. idk tho. Strangely enough my strength hardly went up.

Sometimes they do pass the toes, so I gotta be more mindful of that, I hear that's pretty bad on the knees

What's weird is what really starts to hurt my knees is driving. Hitting the pedal and releasing etc has really been taxing on my right knee. Also it tends to feel painful even sitting down doing nothing. :/


I bought a ton of joint supplements so I'm really hoping my knees feel better very soon.


the magnesium is for something else

well, calcium fructoborate should be in there, one of the only supported by actual science for joints

[SammyJr]

If your knee hurts just from driving and even while doing nothing, there's gotta be an underlying injury because thats not normal lol.

Also if you wanna get something better to supplement your joints, puritanspride has a msm, chondroitin and glucosamine 2x a day pill that is cheap as hell in bulk. You can even get a vitamin d3 supp. I remember taking cissus when i first got injured and it helped somewhat but was too expensive to keep getting

yeah im not sure what it is. I asked my doctor some stuff but it seems like I'm just gonna be hopeful that the joint pills kick in soon.
yea i shoul've gotten the 3-in 1 glucos/msm/chon. nvr heard of puritanspride tho.

Sammy you are a crack up like always. Your body hurting is basically your body letting you know that something you are doing it not working. Instead of taking all of these supplements try to figure out what it is that is hurting you.

I admire your hard work ethic, but sometimes doing less is doing more, especially if you are going to be injured and not able to train as the other option.

my doctor said he doesn't think it's the 10 lb weight gain in 2 weeks. So I think it was from too much weight with atrophied legs, combined with poor form. I will use the joint supps, and once the pain stops, I'll go back to doing legs but with half the weight, steadily increasing weight, and better form. And more volume.. I've been focusing on weight but not the 'intense burn' from failure and increased volume/ToT

**** Bostin Loyd is running less supps than you Sammy.

mirin?

well, calcium fructoborate should be in there, one of the only supported by actual science for joints

hm i've never heard of that. there's only like 5 reviews on amazon products with that and not many products :/

[Jevyzzz]

how does jason "hugh" huh pull such an insane vacuum like that ?!

sammy bro, do u use knee wraps ?