Weightlifting for Kiwis - Discussion and support regarding the art of swole

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spagandhi said:
A while back, I hurt my knee squatting. I've always had weak knees because I'm very tall and wasn't in great shape. Every time I squat, even unweighted, my left knee pops. It sucks. Anyone with weak knees have a method?
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I have a problem in my right knee. If I hyperextend it, I can crack it to make it pop inside a few times a day. Sometimes walking upstairs is slightly painful on it. Saw a doctor and a physical therapist about it, and the diagnosis is basically just "yea that sucks deal with it". It's likely from the desk posture I had for most of my life; I always tucked my right leg under my left, which keeps the patellar tendon fully stressed all day.

I gave up on squat for a few months, and the pain was mostly gone, then I started squatting only once per week, and keeping the volume low (2x5 warmup sets, 1x20 at working weight, done). I'm not going anywhere near max weight or grinding out tons of sets. I think being conscious of not tucking my legs when I sit helped more than anything to do with weights.
 
I told myself I'm ending my winter bulk on mardi gras this year and hit all my goals tonight at the last possible opportunity.

Then I fucked up my elbow somehow because I hooked the bar on a spring collar some fucking faggot had left in the slot of the rack. Hoping it just hurts from banging it on the rack and not because I snapped my shit up.

Tentatively pissed.
 
In my case the knee problem is so minor it's not worth mentioning, don't get spooked. I'm stronger than I've ever been in my life. Worries disappear when I'm deadlifting the weight of a grizzly bear.

Injuries happen. The temporary ones, nurse them and don't make it worse trying to rush. The chronic lifetime ones, you just have to live with and work around. Guys with no knees and two stumps can still be the strongest guy in the room.
 
Pretty much all my injuries are non-sports, non-fitness related. Doing stuff I don't normally do, or just being stupid. I've fixed up a lingering knee problem (suspected meniscus tear) through basketball (squatting, sprinting, prancing around like a faggot). It used to be sensitive and get inflamed if it got tweaked, now it feels robust.

Watch out for over-use injuries. Microtears accumulate in your tendons . You can't really feel it. Then pop, tear, oof. I'd like to work out ever day, but I physically cannot. NBA players are clearly on steroids for recovery, it's impossible.
 
Jerk Sausage said:
In my case the knee problem is so minor it's not worth mentioning, don't get spooked.

Injuries happen. The temporary ones, nurse them and don't make it worse trying to rush.
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Most knee problems don't start at the knee, but at the ankle or hip , I have right knee pain when running, why? Because my pelvis is slightly rotated, so I looked up the solution and in my case is to strengthen the inner thigh and glute medius, and to stretch my left hip flexor and my right glute, when it comes to shoulders a lot of people's problems come from lack of strength in the rotator cuff, or a lack of flexibility, or both, your body doesn't just have pain randomly, if you have a particular kind of pain such as golfers elbow then the best thing you can do is to look for the causes of it and do exercises plus stretches to fix it, it's always caused by a stabilizer muscle being weak, lack of flexibility, or both. Don't think to yourself that it's just how things are, fix it so you don't have pain anymore.
 
Anime Waifu NFT collector said:
Most knee problems don't start at the knee, but at the ankle or hip , I have right knee pain when running, why? Because my pelvis is slightly rotated, so I looked up the solution and in my case is to strengthen the inner thigh and glute medius, and to stretch my left hip flexor and my right glute, when it comes to shoulders a lot of people's problems come from lack of strength in the rotator cuff, or a lack of flexibility, or both, your body doesn't just have pain randomly, if you have a particular kind of pain such as golfers elbow then the best thing you can do is to look for the causes of it and do exercises plus stretches to fix it, it's always caused by a stabilizer muscle being weak, lack of flexibility, or both. Don't think to yourself that it's just how things are, fix it so you don't have pain anymore.
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I mean my knee problem was caused directly at the knee. Patellar tendonitis (jumper's knee). Caused mostly by overwork and progressing faster than my tendons could keep up. Fixed it with peptides, cycling, high rep low weight rehab reps and for a brief time a patella band.
 
When I’m doing an inclined chest press my chest just feels tired. I’m nowhere near failure but it just feels tired and my brain just wants to give up. I hope that makes sense?

Regular chest press is fine and I can retard away at that until I’m at failure.

It’s really strange.
 
FedPostalService said:
When I’m doing an inclined chest press my chest just feels tired. I’m nowhere near failure but it just feels tired and my brain just wants to give up. I hope that makes sense?

Regular chest press is fine and I can retard away at that until I’m at failure.

It’s really strange.
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Part of exercising is finding over time what exercises give you the best mind muscle connection (MMC) and have the best stimulus to fatigue ratio for you (SFR), a good idea when it comes to this is to try new exercises during your deload, during deloads you get to practice your technique for free with a new exercise and check out how it feels.
 
Now that we're mostly through February all of the January joins have dropped off and the gym's emptier than I've seen in a while. Saw one of the regulars hit a 385LB bench a few days ago with perfect form. Good shit. Also feel inclined to post that I'm having elbow issues too. What the fuck.

Also ending winter bulk this week and not looking forward to it; but I always time it around when work's going to pick up so I'm too busy to be hungry.
 
Somewhat relevant thing I've noticed that the elbow comments reminded me of that I feel like posting; in my forearm and grip training, I would regularly incorporate pronation/supernation twists with something that's got a heavy end - e.g, sledgehammer or some other tool, 8-15 reps - and doing that would often help any elbow issue I had. Shittons of those conditioning sessions later and I've almost never had elbow/wrist issues.
 
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