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<{dayum}>dropped to do warm up push ups and 5-6 in my left forearm snapped really loud. Was 3 or 4 consecutive popping sounds within a second and it gave out.
<{dayum}>dropped to do warm up push ups and 5-6 in my left forearm snapped really loud. Was 3 or 4 consecutive popping sounds within a second and it gave out.
Seeing what form of movement is still an option.
7.1 Sat
Treadmill 3 mph @ 10% incline 40 min
7.2 Sun
Treadmill 3.5 mph @ 6% incline 40 min
Self reflection BS:
Not gonna sit around pissy eating crap food. Can slow the regress by tightening diet and staying mobile. Incase it's extended time of no lifting. Bro-science mind is blaming excessive caffeine on this. For 6+ months my intake has been coffee in morning, chasing with energy drink (Ghost or Reign ) and pre workout in evening. Me thinks that shit caught up and it's time to flush out. Have had more tendon, ligament, soft tissue nags over the past year than ever before. Inflammation hindering recovery. Am no chicken doctor but have been only on cup of coffee and will cut that out for a lower stim preworkout when I can turn my fucking hand 180 degree again.
In mirror diagnosis exam, my left bicep no long moves with extension of arm up and down. Does not peak, just sits lifeless.
I flirt with over training all the time. Just have entirely too much energy to skip days, but will have to take another look at pushing sessions apart. It was opposite of feeling fatigue, almost like everything was syncing up . Probably just stayed on the redline too long. Just mentally a kick in balls that it happened minutes into low effort warm up. Not trying to grind out another heavy rep.That’s funny that your forearm just went like that. I’m no doctor either, but not sure caffeine would do it. Maybe you hyped yourself up too much and trained too balls to the wall until something gave out? Have you been feeling fatigued or exhausted and in pain lately? If the bad pain subsided quickly, I think you could probably work back to normal movement in a couple weeks, but yeah, hopefully nothing too serious.
You're in mid 30s right? The age the cloak of invulnerability doesn't fit anymore. I like that approach. Just do test ranges and shadow movements seeing what it feels like. Then add light weight and move slow. Hope you're full sprint in the clear.I had my knee swell up out of nowhere the other day, after running on concrete to catch the train, but no pain, just weird liquid filling up the knee and tightness. I just took it about 5-10% lighter than normal, and reduced the volume to like half, but squatted anyway, and relatively heavy. A week later knee is totally normal and haven’t missed sessions. This approach of “do as much as possible while avoiding super painful/grueling movements till things improve” has worked well for me for small pains and weird shit.
I flirt with over training all the time. Just have entirely too much energy to skip days, but will have to take another look at pushing sessions apart. It was opposite of feeling fatigue, almost like everything was syncing up . Probably just stayed on the redline too long. Just mentally a kick in balls that it happened minutes into low effort warm up. Not trying to grind out another heavy rep.
You're in mid 30s right? The age the cloak of invulnerability doesn't fit anymore. I like that approach. Just do test ranges and shadow movements seeing what it feels like. Then add light weight and move slow. Hope you're full sprint in the clear.
Ortho appt Thurs evening so they'll probably dick around and try to do 3 weeks of stretches and anything possible not to scan it. Not knowing if you're out 3 weeks or 3 months is a bitch. If it wasn't such a nasty audible snap pop right in my ear, would never considered Dr visit and eased back. Good news, the bone didn't break lol. The red lines is where the rice crispy theme song went down.
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Yeah I’m early thirties. I think also as you become a more trained you flirt with that red line more often, hard not to. You reminded me, I actually fucked up badly recently. I finished a training cycle and PR’d both Squat and DL. Came in next week and it seems like some of the strength from the low volume peaking week carried on, so weights were flying and I felt invincible. So instead of starting the new block nice and easy I went HAM on the first week after my PRs. Well, after the second session my lower back hurt so much that I literally had trouble walking around or sleeping lol. Had to take 2 entire light weeks with ibuprofen, also caught the flu and suffered a pretty major setback in numbers which was fucking depressing. Now I’m back to squatting 405, and learned my lesson. It’s hard to hold back when everything is firing like you say.
Sounds like you pulled a muscle, maybe brachioradialis? Who knows. In my experience, if nothing is broken or detached, imaging is kinda useless, but always better to get a qualified opinion. If you can bench the empty bar or a 10lb dumbbell with slow tempo that might be an entry point to activity. Then maybe slowly build back up adding 10-20lbs a session or something. Hopefully over soon. Time to build a monster leg press.
3 weeks off of any curling, [/spoiler]
hard hitting truthsWhy even lift if you can't curl?