Essential Random Gym Thoughts Revisited...

[The ADD]

After seeing some relatives dealing with back problems later in life, there's no way I'm doing heavy deadlifts/squats anymore, no matter how great your form is there's going to be pressure on the spine and actually seeing someone dealing with spinal stenosis it's just not worth it

I can't quit, too much fun pulling from the floor.

 

[Malta]

I can't quit, too much fun pulling from the floor.

Fun now, but the load and compression on your spinal column is serious

 

[The ADD]

Fun now, but the load and compression on your spinal column is serious

Just gotta manage it correctly. I don't feel pressure on either and I don't use a belt

Can't blame you though

 

[Entropy Fan]

After seeing some relatives dealing with back problems later in life, there's no way I'm doing heavy deadlifts/squats anymore, no matter how great your form is there's going to be pressure on the spine and actually seeing someone dealing with spinal stenosis it's just not worth it

Yup. I've washed my hands of squats and deadlifts. Body ain't designed to take that abuse weekly over countless years. I'm good on the leg press and some lunges.

My knees, shoulders, wrists, and lower back long term health are too important to me. I wanna be fully physically capable and pain free for as long as possible

 

[DaddyFresh]

After seeing some relatives dealing with back problems later in life, there's no way I'm doing heavy deadlifts/squats anymore, no matter how great your form is there's going to be pressure on the spine and actually seeing someone dealing with spinal stenosis it's just not worth it

Exactly. Unless your a athlete

 

[Broad Street Bully]

A week being out of commission due to food poisoning but I'm byke at it

Gawd how I've missed the weights. Co-workers talking about how I lost weight. Yeah, spitting up and shytting non stop for four days straight will do that to you crazy how that had to happen for me to lose the pouch in my gut

 

[The ADD]

Yup. I've washed my hands of squats and deadlifts. Body ain't designed to take that abuse weekly over countless years. I'm good on the leg press and some lunges.

My knees, shoulders, wrists, and lower back long term health are too important to me. I wanna be fully physically capable and pain free for as long as possible

Were you experiencing those pains now or were you anticipating them?

 

[Entropy Fan]

Were you experiencing those pains now or were you anticipating them?

I got super long femurs. Even when I take a wide sumo stance by the time I get to parallel I am sitting so far back from mid foot (center of gravity) I have to bend my short torso all the way over for bar to be balanced over my foot. It's a cruel game of physics I can't win. If I don't bend over that far the bar is far behind my center of gravity that I have zero balance.

I started to get a very stiff lower back and never ending back spasms. Massage spots I would go to would tell me I had muscles tight as guitar strings in my lower back. I have a very strong core and flexible hips and ankles too.

As for my shoulder I messed it up from bad bench form and going too heavy. That I have fixed tho. Shoulder is fine now.

I just want long term joint health

 

[-G$-]

Them snatches and all variations are humbling as fukk. Doesn't matter how much you can deadlift, or squat or press individually. You combine them all into one movement and all of sudden you can pinpoint every single muscle weakness and imbalance in your body. I just spent close to 2 hours w only 75# on the bar working on technique, mobility, grip, positioning etc. Snatch grip DL, muscle snatch, OHS, high hang snatch, hang snatch, squat snatch. Man I got serious some work to do. New goal of proper deep reps at 135# before end of year.

 

[AquaCityBoy]

I don't cosign none of this deadlift/squat talk.

I want to be deadlifting till I'm 60.

 

[The ADD]

I don't cosign none of this deadlift/squat talk.

I want to be deadlifting till I'm 60.

Everybody has to do what's best for them. I think it's manageable if you find what works for you but if you don't want to it's not my place to say different

 

[BeeCityRoller]

I pulled a lower back muscle like the rest 2 months ago not using proper form on Deadlifts. From them on I kept accidentally pinching the nerve every 1-2 weeks going too hard on T-Bar Rows, Front Squats, and even washing my car. I had a successful Friday workout because I got some good sets of Back Squats and Deadlifts in @225 without triggering the muscle, so that makes it about 3 weeks. Not going above 2 plates for a while and only doing Deads or Squats every other week while it heals. I only did Deadlifts to fix my posture but its counterproductive if I end up hurting myself and down the line I'm that 6'3 50-year old with crap posture or carrying a cane.

 

[Malta]

Everybody has to do what's best for them. I think it's manageable if you find what works for you but if you don't want to it's not my place to say different

I wish I had seen a chiropractor before I had gotten into weight lifting. I had always just assumed big butts were a thing in my family, but later discovered it's cause we have lordosis (inward spinal curve). We're genetically predisposed to it and no amount of flexibility work can correct the angle to the point deadlifts won't cause a problem later on.

 

[AquaCityBoy]

Pre-workout >>>>>>> Molly

I feel so alive right now

 

[Silkk]

After seeing some relatives dealing with back problems later in life, there's no way I'm doing heavy deadlifts/squats anymore, no matter how great your form is there's going to be pressure on the spine and actually seeing someone dealing with spinal stenosis it's just not worth it

I stopped doing situps because I read it can fukk up your spine

Also noticed it seems like all forms of Yoga try to stay away from situps/crunches