Injuries

I have an injury to what I presume is my left lat muscle. It has been a trigger point for several weeks, especially coming down from an overhead press, but I continued to add weight anyway as it was only bothering me during the movement and not any other time. Because I tried working around it, I tweaked it in a way that now it bothers me even with normal, everyday movements. So now, instead of working around it, I'm giving in and resting it completely. I'm going to give it two weeks to heal, as much as it kills me to not lift for two weeks.

Run4life375 wrote: »

I've been running for over 2 years now. It started as a way to get active and soon became a healthy addiction!
I had plans for a 10K and a half marathon, until I hit a road block: Three oral surgeries and a bone infection. I spent some time in the hospital and came home with a PICC line in my arm. I have to be on hard-hitting antibiotics for six weeks. During this time, I can't lift more than eight pounds.
The worst part is that I can't run. Running has become my life. Six weeks?! I honestly don't know how to handle this. I take walks every day, but it doesn't give me the same outlet that running does. I guess I'll just keep counting the days until I can lace up my trail shoes again

I know how you feel. I can even say that I feel depressed because running is my outlet (as is for a lot of people!). I'm not happy with being limited to walking and other stuff at the gym. I've barely run over the past 4 weeks. I have what I think is a bad IT band problem and I'm gonna be seeing an Ortho now cause it just won't get better.

I know how you feel. I can even say that I feel depressed because running is my outlet (as is for a lot of people!). I'm not happy with being limited to walking and other stuff at the gym. I've barely run over the past 4 weeks. I have what I think is a bad IT band problem and I'm gonna be seeing an Ortho now cause it just won't get better. [/quote]

I agree, depressed is the right word for it! Walking everywhere helps me stay in shape, but it feels soooo slooowww... I've started riding my bike just to cope, and that helps me get the speed rush, too.

I hope your IT band issue gets figured out. I've had some short-lived IT problems, and it's no fun!

Yeah, I used to hate riding my bike. It feels like cheating! Now I'm kind of getting into it. Maybe I'll have to start doing triathlons

I have a lower back injury, not exactly sure of the cause, had an MRI which showed nothing and the doctor basically gave up trying to figure it out.
My L4 goes out frequently and the muscle to the side of that is chronically tight, probably because of this. If I'm not careful and over work it it will spasm and I can only describe it as my back gives out.
I got to the chiropractor frequently, I started getting deep tissue massages a few months agos which have helped a bit, but I still have a "mass" in that area. Biofreeze helps to a point.
I've worked to strengthen everything around my lower back, and directly work my lower back when I'm able to. If I feel it getting too tight I have to stop whatever I'm doing, but I've gotten to the point I can do deadlifts and back extensions without too much trouble.
There are certain things I avoid that I want to slowly continue to work in, such as stiff leg deadlifts and bent over rows, but I feel like I've been able to come a long way from where I was a few years ago.
(And I can now deadlift 345 lbs!)I think going to the chiro/massages and taking better care on my own has helped a lot.
I also have tendinitis in both forearms, I can't do a lot of direct bicep work. Using versa grips on pulling movements helps some. I suppose I should take some time off and see if that helps, but... eh.

Last year around this time, I crushed the cartilage in my chest here. (I grab my chest in pain at the end.)



Which ruled out bench press so I made overhead pressing my primary movement.

A few months later I pulled my QL and internal oblique (after a minor hamstring pull deadlifting) climbing up a rope. I trained through the pain for months and competed in two meets that I had committed to prior to the back injury.

After that second meet last summer I saw a physical therapist (Big Hunky McManhandler) who mobilized me and gave me corrective work I did religiously. After a few, I added in real light squats and snatch and Romanian deadlifts to strengthen my back. I'm still in the process of reloading squat and deadlift, but it's steady progress.

Sometimes I feel like I go from one injury to the next. In January I had terrible mechanical back pain with spasms and it took 2 weeks to work through that. I stopped weightlifting while it was at its worst, but kept walking as much as I could. Important to keep moving. Within a few weeks I started suffering in the hip. I tried my best to ignore it but finally the pain won and I've been in physio dealing with hip bursitis for the last few weeks. It's so frustrating ...
The upside to all of this is that I can still workout, I've had to chose other things that accommodate the current injury. It certainly helps me find new & interesting workouts!! I miss doing hard cardio the most but there are upper body exercise routines that can still get the heart pumping. And I know that this too will pass and I can get back at it ...
I hope you're back at it soon ...

I had a complete tear of my left ACL about a year ago, and surgery to repair it in May 2016. I've significantly cut down on the amount of running I do (down to 4 miles, 1-2x per week), go to physical therapy (rather advanced--involves 18" plyo box jumps and a lot of single leg deadlifts) twice a week (plus more squats and hip strengthening exercises every single day), do vinyasa yoga twice a week, and swim 2-3 days per week. Once the snow melts (April Fool's storm here in New England) I will get back on my bike outside--I am training towards my first sprint triathlon at the end of the summer since my long-distance running days are over (per my orthopedist).

steveo_05 wrote: »

Does anyone have any injuries if so how are you working around them??

Chiro, accupuncture, massage, PT advice on what I need to strengthen to get around the injury.

Taking a break from lifting big to focus on more cardio. Basically, using the time I'm injured to focus on something other than my usual goal. I always let cardio and endurance fall by the wayside because I don't love them. I'm considering this an opportunity to focus on them and try try try to develop more positive feelings towards stupid cardio work.