How much pain are you in?

[Tmax55]

You should really only need 48 hours to recover. You'll be sore after that but you will be recovered enough to do work.

I don't annihilate them every other day with 25-30 sets...I do about 14-18 sets on average and I alternate between quad focus and hamstring focus (of course its impossible to do compound movements without hitting both quads and hamstrings but they still hit one harder than the other).

[justinfore]

You should really only need 48 hours to recover. You'll be sore after that but you will be recovered enough to do work.

I don't annihilate them every other day with 25-30 sets...I do about 14-18 sets on average and I alternate between quad focus and hamstring focus (of course its impossible to do compound movements without hitting both quads and hamstrings but they still hit one harder than the other).

Okay gotcha...that makes sense that you're splitting it. I predominantly squat on leg day, which pretty much does me in for the next couple days...lol.

[Tmax55]

Yeah my primary movement for each of those days was:

Day 1 Machine Hack Squats (this is a weak sauce primary but I did a bunch of leg press with it and I knew it was going to get worse)
Day 3 Romanian Dead Lifts (this actually generates more soreness for me than any other leg movement)
Day 6 Barbell Hack Squats
Day 8 Sumo Dead lifts (I do these on leg day instead of back day)
Day 9 High Bar Squats

Tomorrow (day 11) I will use dumbell lunges or RDL's as my primary.

[JerryB]

I sorry to hear you have so many issues at the youthful age of 35.

[Gls133]

Q. How much pain are you in?
A. Not near as much as you.

[JimmyJonny]

Pull a Intercostal muscle this week but made it through DL's today. In a good amount of pain, mostly because breathing hurts. Oh well, life goes on.............

[LiftNFishCLE]

Inner elbow radiates pain to shoulder when doing incline bench press/can curl 60's without much pain. What is going on here? Can not hammer curl anymore

[limos]

I am a weight training newbie and am just 4 months into it and i will never forget the 1st day i worked out - my entire body was screaming in pain! I cycle to and fro home and gym and i didn't feel cycling giving me a mechanical advantage over walking that day!

[bigtallox]

How much pain are you in?

Not much after my hip replacement surgery. But now I only deadlift about 70% of what I used to. Maybe in time, it'll come back, but I don't really push myself anymore given my hip has ceramic parts in it. Oh well.

[BrightonBomber]

I have a little niggling knee pain at the moment, nothing major it's just due to the volume on squats I'm doing while running Sheiko at the moment, pain goes away once I switch to another routine that is less arduous on the knees.

I have ripped a callus off my right hand deadlifting yesterday so that stings.

Other than that I have been very lucky. Other than a slight upper back muscle strain that was so minor it didn't even stop me from lifting a couple of days later I've been injury free for over a year. But I guess the weights I'm lifting are not that big, might be different once I start lifting bigger weights.

[KoolDJVader]

I'm not in pain per se but I just feel chronically tight in many places. But I know I need to do more mobility work. The most nagging one is this tightness deep in my left scapula. Had it for years and all the stretching, massage, foam rolling, lacrosse ball etc doesn't alleviate it.

If you really have elbow tendinitis and it's not something else, look into something called the Tyler Twist and reverse Tyler Twist. I had tennis elbow in my left arm and golfer's elbow in my right two years ago and those rehab moves helped.

One aside... It's kind of understandable why people think 35 is old. In sports (and granted most of us are not elite athletes) you are considered past your physical prime when you hit the mid-30's. I know when I hit 35 I felt I might be getting to the end of the line. I'm 47 now and it seems silly that I thought that way but I did.

Edit to add...I lied, my knees are constantly achy but combination knee sleeves or light knee wraps and remembering the Ed Coan "open up your taint" cue makes squatting relatively painless

[RU4A69]

Dude I don't mean to be a b**ch, but dang.

Do the rest of guys hurt constantly? Between my lower back and my tendinitis in my elbow, I feel like a shell most days. This can't be normal.

The squats just destroy my lumbar and sacral spine, and the pendlay rows are giving me so much tendinitis that my left arm is pretty much useless.

God it sucks getting old. Surely this doesn't happen to everyone else.

Actually kind of comforting to read this. Hurt 24/7 @ 35 crew.

You have to try and find replacement lifts for everything that's damaging you. Be creative.

[JRT6]

The last time I was totally pain free for a day was when I had come out of surgery and spent the day pilled up.

[Brackneyc]

I had spinal surgery on June 9th. Two days before the surgery, I shredded my rotator cuff so bad that it cannot be repaired with regular surgery. Thy are planning some type of Lat muscle reattachment procedure. I am in pain today, and between the spine and the shoulder, it is hard to remember the last time I was not in pain.

I still train. No sense in not training.

[MCrow]

Almost in some sort of pain due to breaking my back years ago. Right now I'm also limping around on a arthritic hip and knee on the right side. I managed to tear my acl a couple years back and now it's getting arthric, the hip has bothered me for years and at this point I can lift my leg straight out in front of me. Still hitting the gym though.

[.pumpingiron]

No pain after 20 years of lifting...but I realize how lucky I am to never have been in a serious car crash....one drunk driver or someone texting plowing into me could change things in the matter of a second..knock on wood..knock on wood..I was also lucky to have not got injured playing sports

However, over the years I have had to make adjustments;
--switched many years ago from Barbbell bench to dumbbell bench to avoid shoulder aggravation..can Barbbell overhead press with no problems though
---my lower back never liked deadlifts so i quit doing deadlifts
---I stay below 255 on squats to avoid knee aggravation
---Pushdowns and French presses bug my elbows so I gave those up..weird that weighted dips don't cause any issues
---I take a week off from lifting sometimes to aid recovery

Made some more little tweaks over the years..you may want to try alternating grips or choosing alternative exercises..don't get stuck in the "I have to do this exercise" mentality.

[drkelly74]

I would consider laying off deadlifting and squats for a while to let your back heal. Maybe do some walking lunges for your legs.

A little over a year ago i was doing dips and felt pain in my right shoulder. It was constant and with no improvement for three months. Then it slowly got better over about a month long period. It still isnt 100%. I finally started doing assisted dips about 2 weeks ago and am taking it very slow and easy.

[bowers32]

I am now 53... been training for about 30 years. It started a good 15 years ago... torn labrum from what they call "weight lifter shoulder".. so quite barbell and dumbbell chest work. Then about 3 years ago.. torn bicep tendon... today it is constant shoulder problems. When I am hurting I don't hesitate to go see who I need to.. the chiropractor, a massage therapist, physical therapist etc... I want to be able to keep training as long as I can. I am being told that after years of heavy training my shoulders have dropped to the front thus causing stress on the rotator cuff so they are working with me to get my shoulders to properly realign.

I have started daily stretching, core exercises, rotator cuff work and foam roller.... I have learned that the days of just walking in a gym and start pounding the weights are over. But if I take care of myself and do the maintenance stuff.. I can keep going and that is the goal. Luckily my years of training have left me with a solid base of muscle so am not chasing more muscle.

[JediRN]

[Hooverville]

No offense taken. Once I get my strength up where I want it, I plan to cut a lot.

I've been eating in excess and shot from 250 to 280. My lifts are increasing like mad on stronglifts and I'm making great progress. I'm just too afraid at this point of stalling out to start cutting the excess adipose out.

I'd really like to get my squats up to 300 until I start cutting. That's my goal anyway. Which (typing at the gym currently) I just finished up 210lbs so I don't think it's unreachable.

But yea I know I need to cut down abou 20% BF and soon. My sleep apnea will improve or go away, and a lot of aches and pains would be solved.

Though I think my back is medical.

If you cannot squat 300 at your weight, there is something going on.

[JC480]

Dude I don't mean to be a b**ch, but dang.

Do the rest of guys hurt constantly? Between my lower back and my tendinitis in my elbow, I feel like a shell most days. This can't be normal.

The squats just destroy my lumbar and sacral spine, and the pendlay rows are giving me so much tendinitis that my left arm is pretty much useless.

God it sucks getting old. Surely this doesn't happen to everyone else.

You're doing some stuff wrong to be honest or maybe you've got something else going on?

I'm 49 and I will admit in the morning I'm stiff, my feet always feel like someone has beat the bottom of 'em etc...but after I get my coffee I'm pretty much golden. I lift 4 days a week and walk an hour a day 5-6 days a week. Only time I'm sore is when I make a change in my lifting routine (different lift or bumped weights).

The tendinitis can take up to a year to heal...some good threads on the O35 forum if you take the time to search about treating it.

Best of luck!