The Official Gym & Fitness Thread

most people's injury don't heal properly because after the inflammation is gone they just let it sit and don't do anything. mobility excercise and flossing the muscles really helps after a injury.

 

Most common injury I see at the gym. Most people I see agitate it from bench pressing and dips. Mine gets sore after a heavy bench day. I'd either go light for a while or really be carful on your range of motion. A rotator injury takes forever to fully recover from.

 

I read some stuff online that said benching a lot with a straight bar and not using dumbbells can cause rotator cuff injuries due to the restricted range of movement. I'm guilty of that. I have been trying to increase my bench a lot over the past few months. I'm gonna try to swap it up more.

 

interesting, I was always under the impression that your body can only take so much, stretching and knowing your bodies limits is the key to not scoring the cuff area.

 

Sounds like you have some internal rotation going on. Quick test, stand up with your back flat against the wall. If your shoulders blades make full contact your good, from the sound of it, I don't think yours will touch. It's a very common problem. The key to fixing it is scapular retraction work at very light weight. This helps strengthen the posterior delts and lats which will pull your shoulders back into a neutral plane. Also like t4r4 already said, smash and floss. You have to break up the tissue in order to create better mobility and comfortable movement patterns. If you need info on mobility, check out mobilitywod.com
This stuff will also help those who get numb arms or hands after benching or dipping. While creating that pump, your shoulders collapse forward and impinge upon the brachial plexus which causes nerve impingement. Everyone who works out should do some of this smash and floss and retraction work weekly.

 

Been doing a buncha shoulder and tricep work lately to bring up my benching, we shall see if all that paid off today.

 

My gf made me tamales and tortillas as part of my xmas present.....omg perfect post workout meal

 

Thats literally what im eating for my post work out meal too!

First time in the gym today for weeks, did some crossfit workouts trying to get back into it.

Super set snatches with muscle ups

 

I made tortillas one time for part of a lunch I made my gf...she called them flat breads

 

Cheat day

 

chopped my shin open with a new axe I got. Good reason to skip leg day I guess.

 

Isengard?

 

no gainz for me.....i have the flu

 

get better soon

 

My whole body is sore after deads, Romanian deads, and zercher squats yesterday.

 

Leg day today but i really dont feel like doing squats, my whole body feels weak and loose if that makes sense. so today is the bro leg day aka arm day lol jk just gonna do machines for legs.

 

How do I fix the issue of my pants waist band having like an inch and a half of room, but the pants around my quads and hammies is like a 16 year olds skinny jeans. Seriously this is my mid life crisis right now.

 

Get fat, srs