The Health, Wellness, weight loss, and fitness thread

[gunslinger_burrito]

I can give up fried chicken. I can't give up altered states.

I feel like this is a strong statement.

And kale is good for you

[D.o.S.]

Quit smoking (again), broke hand, can't be active, kind of feel like a lump.

What to do without hand?

[Sparrow]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g3tQaqizh0[/youtube]

[D.o.S.]

laughing and crying.

[Jwar]

So after what 6 months (maybe less I can't remember) of TRT therapy I feel normal and good again. I'm on 150 mg a week, two shot twice a week at 75 mg. My test levels went from 300 to 1000. Which is top of where they ought to be. So I've built a FUCK ton of mass over the last several months. So much so that now I'm dropping weight again, am at 208 and look like I did when I was 187. Insane. Absolutely insane. During NAMM I had gotten so dehydrated, not on purpose but because I was so consumed in everything that I could full on see my abs at 208. I'm 5'8. hahaha.

After my cut I can see myself being super dry and defined at 180 probably. It's going to be hard. I've been dropping a pound a week. I'll have to cut the fuck out of water to compete. Which sucks, but test makes you retain that shit.

So I went from 212 to 187 to 225 and now I'm 207 today. All in a span of 8 months. My entire body has changed shape. It's crazy.

[The_Active_Conundrum]

I can give up fried chicken. I can't give up altered states.

I feel like this is a strong statement.

And kale is good for you

Kale is very good. Cheaper than normal bagged salad stuff at local grocery.

Also an Aldi just opened up. They have amazing produce deals. Bought a half pound carton of button mushrooms for eighty cents. They sell cabbage per head insead of per pound.

Life gonna get delicious.

[gunslinger_burrito]

I think I'm developing some tennis elbow..... I've laid off the gymnastic stuff that really puts pressure on that area (like back levers....) but I still draw a lot and can feel it when I draw. It also bothers me when I'm playing guitar

I want my cake and I want to fucking eat it too.

[fever606]

Gave up soda, that went great. Next up, working on added sugars...

[alexa.]

Sugar is 8 times more addictive then cocain. Try to eat a lot of fruit/honey to soften the junky crisis. Good luck!

And like, I ate a lot of cake yesterday = a lot of sugar, today I feel superlow and sleepy.. meeeeeeeeh

[gunslinger_burrito]

I'm gonna toss this out here.....

So I've been into gymnastic strength training for almost a year. Only as of the past month and a half or so have I had what I might call an injury. I'm pretty sure it has to do with a biceps tendon. Long story short, I wonder if any of you (jwar ) know about the different recovery rates of muscle tissue vs tendon. I know that muscle recovers and grows much faster, which explains why most lifting and strength training injuries are actually tendon/joint problems. The muscle was strong enough, but the tendon(s) had not caught up. So yeah, I guess that's my question. Do any of you know where I could read about the different recovery/regeneration/strengthening rates of tendon vs muscle tissue? I'm looking, but all I'm coming up with is injury recovery. I want to know how fast/slow you can load a tendon with weight to increase its strength.

[Jwar]

Tendons take far, far longer to recover as they are a different kind of tissue entirely. I've had tears in tendons before and in fact now have tendinitis, which is NOT fun.


As far as the recovery rate of the tendon, it's all going to be based on you. Several factors, age, overall health, how often you've injured that area (if at all), genetic make up...lots of factors. So it's hard to determine the actual recovery, especially when the damage is pretty unknown.

So with me, like I said I have tendinitis. It flares up and goes away, flares up and stays, then goes away. It's a bitch. But not the same as let's say a tear, which could be potentially aggravated every time you move, workout or doing anything with that arm.

I had a client that had a MCL tear, well, let's say a complete blow out. I worked with her about 6 months after her recovery and it was never the same and she was told it would never be the same.

I knew a gentlemen that blew his biceps brachii in the 90's that told me that he never regained strength in it and could not lift nearly to the full extent that he used to.

So what I would suggest is to avoid activity that hurts. If it is sore, that's not necessarily horrible, pain, yes. Some people think of exercise as painful and it should not be painful in the literal sense. Soreness is one thing, stabbing, sharp pains is another. When in doubt, skip it. Not worth it. Trust me. I have two swollen discs, a torn rotator cuff, tendinitis, arthritis in my knees, a fucked up hip and few other injuries from not listening to my body.


Lastly, I would consider seeing a doctor and getting an MRI. A month is a long time for something like that to bother you.

[gunslinger_burrito]

Thanks!

It's not so much sore as it is....kind of achey all the time, especially if I straighten my elbow completely (it's on the outside of the elbow). And I think it feels like tennis elbow too, but it's not worse than annoying. It's just that its pretty constant that bothers me. I think it's been aching for so long because I try to work out on it too much, or with exercises that aggravate it. I've laid off a couple moves that I know directly hurt it, and I'm progressively cutting back more moves as I narrow down just which ones hurt it.

[gunslinger_burrito]

Gah, still hurts although I'm fairly certain it's not from any of the exercises I've been doing. I can feel it a bit more while working out but I think it's due to the fact that my arms are getting much more blood flow. It might be related to all the drawing I do, and I've hardly been playing guitar because any fast or lead picking seems to aggravate it

I just don't see how the straight arm gymnastic stuff could lead to tennis elbow...... If anything I thought there would be injuries on the inside of the arm/joint.....

[DocD3F4U17]

getting up is warming up, doing chores is work, dance dance revolution? excersize

[alexa.]

Gah, still hurts although I'm fairly certain it's not from any of the exercises I've been doing. I can feel it a bit more while working out but I think it's due to the fact that my arms are getting much more blood flow. It might be related to all the drawing I do, and I've hardly been playing guitar because any fast or lead picking seems to aggravate it

I just don't see how the straight arm gymnastic stuff could lead to tennis elbow...... If anything I thought there would be injuries on the inside of the arm/joint.....

Perhaps you just need to give it a rest. If you're using them a lot it might be that they are just over-strained. Or it might be that you don't pay attention to your cold-desk for instance, which can lead to wrist pains too.