Did you injure yourself when starting a new workout regimen?

Nope.

There was DOMS, of course ... but no injuries.

Nope. I hurt myself in other interesting ways.

I started suffering with sciatica after a legs, bums and tums class a few months ago

Nope, didn't have a lifting related injury until 3 years in. And it wasn't too heavy/bad form related.

Dr_Fishbowl wrote: »

Machka9 wrote: »

I'll add to this that when I first started going to the gym, for example, I took advantage of their introduction to the gym program, and then worked out for a couple years with a coach who was an amateur bodybuilder.

When I got into cycling, I rode with my parents who were both into cycling. I grew up in the cycling world.

When I got into running it was at school, in Grade 7 and we had a really good running coach/instructor.

So I have taken advantage the instruction provided to me ... and I have also done a lot of reading. I buy or borrow books on weight lifting, cycling, running and so on to get tips and hints and advice.

Do you feel like the reading and research helped or was it more of the instruction. Just curious because I feel like the internet gave me a false sense of bravado and security which lead me to my latest fish fry. I felt I didn't need to go to the gym and have someone qualified show me the ins and outs of weight lifting since I had the world wide web at my finger tips. I mean, what could they tell me that I couldn't learn on my own.....other then that just because it's easy to curl 20 lbs of dumbbells doesn't mean it would be easy to overhead pressing them...

I didn't have the internet when I started. I didn't have the internet until I was well into it all.

Regarding cycling, I grew up in a cycling family with bicycles all around and Bicycle Magazine lying around, so I was able to talk to my parents and also read Bicycle Magazine. When I hit about 17, my cycling kind of dropped off ... and when I was 23, I started it up again and have continued ever since. But when I was 23, I went to my local library back then, and took out every single book they had on bicycles and bicycle riding. All 5 of them. I read them from cover to cover, and used a lot of the tips to set up my bicycle and kind of design a training plan. Of course, I already had a decent background in cycling but the books certainly helped.

When I got into bodybuilding, I had a coach ... since then, I've collected a small library of books on weight lifting. So I've got a good background being coached in person, but these books are particularly good because they show the human anatomy and explain exactly what each activity does. So they're a good reference if I want to work a certain area or try something new.

When I got into yoga, first I half-heartedly tried a video but it just didn't feel right. So I went to a class and happened to get a really good instructor. She made sure we did everything right and explained why. She was thorough. From that, I could then go home and do the video, and things felt right.

I have rarely used the internet to show me how to do something. I'd rather someone show me in person to make sure I've got it right ... or to read a book that I can read and re-read and stop and check and so on. I suppose you can keep stopping a YouTube video or something, but my limited experience with that sort of thing indicates to me that they don't really explain the "why" very well.

Nope. But now, 3+ years later, I have torn my tfcc in the wrist of my main hand. Not sure if it's lifting related as I didn't have a specific incident. It probably is wear and tear (heh) due to exercise though. Been off the weights for about 6 weeks and have surgery next week. Probably won't get back to any real lifting until the start of the year.

<insert cries here>

Nah.

I do get injured, but random stuff at random times, some of it overuse or adaptation problems. I'm sure that it didn't help that I didn't start being regularly very active until my mid-40s.

I'm pretty good about learning how to do things properly (coaching, classes) first, then ramping up gradually (but challengingly). Now that I'm 61, injury recovery takes longer than it used to, and any detraining happens faster, so I'm somewhat cautious.

My husband hurt his back trying to add to much weight to quickly.

I've only indirectly injured myself from exercise. Ok so, before we bought our first home, we used to rent this single-wide mobile shack and when I was first starting out at my heaviest weight, I was trying to find an exercise that I would like. Someone suggested the 30-day shred to me, and if you've done the workout, she starts off her warm up with jumping jacks. I did 3 and then the floor cracked and I fell through.

Thankfully I wasn't seriously injured, just more grossed out that I was now under the trailer with the spiders. Hubby was really good about it lol. He blamed the weak floor on the water tank that leaked earlier that year lol.

Yep

Injured myself doing Stronglifts about 5 yrs ago,as part of a weightloss effort, just 3-4months after starting the program.

Lifted too much weight, too soon w/o proper form. Seriously strained my right SI joint doing a squat at 180. Had 2 surgically administered cortisone injections but they didn't solve the problem. The only thing that did was rest and time.

After a 3 yr hiatus w/o doing any exercise or lifting, which is why I gained weight again, I started another weigtloss effort and started lifting again. This time I chose to follow the Starting Strength program but was careful to be more patient in pushing up the weight.

My calculated 1RM for squats is now 270 and I can easily do 10x180 for a warmup.

Lesson learned.

Yes. I'm on a jacked up knee right now. Who knew I could mess myself up so badly squatting. (No weights, just bodyweight). Cant afford a coach or trainer and don't seem to get it (form, technique) from reading and internet video so it is looking like I'm just out of luck on strength and weight work

Thank heavens I like to swim, know how to swim, and the knee thing actually forces my front crawl kick into better form.

I've injured myself with cardio workouts. I went through a time earlier this year when it seemed I couldn't do cardio without hurting myself somewhere. I seem to have gotten past that at this time.