This isn't about advice, it's more just to vent.
In 2012 I had the worst chronic fatigue of my life, for reasons that are more complex than a simple post can explain, I believed I had MS and decided to "give up" for the year on working out and spent the entire year on my couch. As an ecto, I lost most of my muscle mass and basically couldn't walk very far without my legs going shaky and being overcome with anxiety. This triggered an anxiety disorder which I've since dealt with through exercise and overall healthy habits.
In the years since, I crawled out of the depression & fatigue, lifted 3-5x a week, got my squat up to 5x5 225, built big arms, and overall felt great about myself.
Fast forward to 2020, and those bad times of 2012 are way behind me (I'm doing way better than then), but I'm still incredibly _frustrated_. When the pandemic first started, I figured I could use a month away from the gym to soothe my aches and pains form being a 36 year old who lifts. With each week came less and less ability to exercise. I finally dropped 400+ bucks on a set of dumbells to use on my balcony, and I injured _both_ ****ing wrists somehow during the first day. Fast forward 2 more months and both wrists have gotten worse, not better. I've tried a "maintenance" workout with them every other week or so, because I'm watching myself lose years of progress day by day and there's nothing I can do about it. I'm basically down to just occasional runs and situps. I've felt anxious more days than most about this whole thing. I've been drinking more than I'd like (which still isn't too much), but I'm getting depressed. It seems like the whole world is going to **** around me and my only way to keep my mind off of it is work & lift.
Okay vent over.
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Thread: Just venting
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06-02-2020, 10:09 AM #1
Just venting
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06-02-2020, 11:27 AM #2
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06-02-2020, 12:15 PM #4
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if you're drinking more than you'd like, you're drinking too much. That's a big source of depression. Let the wrists heal, but check them often. Is the problem with them in pulling or pushing movements? There are still bodyweight exercises you can do to keep fit, and if you're capable of situps and running, then make them more than occasional.
All this will pass.“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
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06-02-2020, 06:44 PM #5
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06-02-2020, 08:56 PM #8
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06-03-2020, 08:42 AM #9
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06-03-2020, 12:33 PM #10
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06-03-2020, 12:57 PM #11
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06-03-2020, 02:57 PM #12
I used to give some lifting advice, but I always got $hit on, so I stopped.
Now if you were able to spot something out here in OP's post (but he's not really looking for advice) and those cough, cough wrist issues, you tell ma man to cruise over to that home workout thread and check out those 3"bar lifts.
Truth be told, after training with that bar 15 years ago, my wrist never get injured. You don't see 42 years old doing full cleans without wrist wraps very often, I fully promote my ability to be able to without pain from thickbar.
Lifting straps ain't always answer, I ain't interested in tooting my horn, it just so happened the gyms closed, and the home workout thread was born, I decided to do some filming in these "tough times".
Unlike what some other dude thinks, the thickbar is "training" my wrists are "trained", they don't get injured anymore.
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06-03-2020, 06:13 PM #13
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I'm not going to recommend anything specific for the guy's wrists, because I have no idea what kind of injuries they are. I had a non-lifting related injury to my wrists a couple of years ago when I tried to cut a cable with too-small cutters. I hurt the first one, so shifted hands, and hurt that one too. I couldn't do flat-palm pushups for a couple of months, but I could still hold a bar. So I got a couple of those grip handles put on the floor and grab when I do pushups. I like them so much I kept using them even after the wrist healed.
OP likely has something totally different going on, so my advice on that is meaningless. Without more details, I think recommending a specific bar is meaningless as well.“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
-Voltaire
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06-03-2020, 11:55 PM #14
OP... So you hurt your wrists. What can you do with them?
Can you do a few (not to failure) pull-ups without hurting the wrists.
Can you get underneath a big table and use it to do bodyweight rows
Can you do sit ups and leg raises
Can you do air squats
There's got to be some stuff you can do. Take a look at the gif linked in my sig line. Only looking at easy step 1 for each exercise (for now) --- which ones can you do? All of them?
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06-07-2020, 10:30 AM #15
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06-25-2020, 08:07 AM #16
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Get a pair of those weightlifting gloves. The ones that have wrist-straps attached to them.
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06-25-2020, 09:45 AM #17
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