Pinched nerve question

Discussion in 'Chit Chat' started by r-in, Apr 30, 2010.

  1. r-in

    r-in

    I hear you, and appreciate your thoughts as well as others. It is very hard to take the time off. My wife has noticed I get cranky when I miss my workouts. However you are right I do need more balance. I'm going to try adding swimming back in year round, and I cut the weights down and added more reps and trying to switch the variety more often.
    I know the nagging injuries also. My back goes back to a job. We were working shorthanded and I was pulling a a 1500lb cart loaded with 3000lbs of stuff. Normally this wasn't all that bad as the carts rolled, so as soon as it got started you were good. The one time I was rolling and turning it and one of the front wheels caught something and ripped the tongue I was pulling back away from the turn. I didn't let go and I thought I had ripped my back apart. Just a really bad pulled muscle luckily, but it's never been the same either.
    Maybe I need to get back into golf. I can get some walking in, drink beer for the workout buzz, and practice the javelin throwing my clubs(kidding,usually).
     
    #11     Jun 15, 2010
  2. You'll never recover to the condition you were before the injury. But you can manage things to a better quality of life.

    I was crippled and told I would never walk again. Three surgeries followed by a year of therapy did nothing for me.

    Finally I got to a doctor who put me on morphine and fentanyl. I created my own therapy program of stretching with very deep breathing sort of yoga style. Within 3 months I could walk and today I can run short distances. I still have all the numbness and pain and I'm not real steady on my feet but I'm not in a wheelchair. I chose to stop taking the narcotics a few years ago after being on them for about 7 years. I quit cold turkey and had zero withdrawl symptoms other then the top of my head felt cold for a few days (I know, weird).

    My advice is to learn to meditate and stretch. Do this by finding a place where you can tune out the world. Close your eyes and imagine the most serene thing you can imagine. Exhale completely. Breathe in slowly counting to ten filling your lungs to capacity. Hold it for a slow count to ten. Exhale for a slow count to ten pushing as much air out of your lungs as you can. Do this five times. Then an hour later do this again. This time stretch to about 50% of what you think you can stretch. Do this four times per day each time stretching about 5% more. Before you know it you'll be Gumby. Pain will subside.

    But stop lifting, pulling, pushing, pitching, etc. unless you want to be worse off then you were when it happened. Each sucessive time you injure/ reinjure it will be worse. I've been there and done it. Learn from my mistake - not yours.

    A neurological cervical injury can kill you. There are neves going to the lungs and heart.

    Choose well and good luck.
     
    #12     Jun 15, 2010
  3. nkhoi

    nkhoi

    sounds like 'lifting thru pain' is not going to do it, even Tito Ortiz can't do it.
     
    #13     Jun 15, 2010
  4. fhl

    fhl

    Power racks. That's what they're for.
    I always lift by myself and always have the safety bars in place.

    Many years ago I got the bar stuck on my chest and I never take the chance anymore.
     
    #14     Jun 15, 2010
  5. EON Kid

    EON Kid



    -Always use the barbell collars

    -do a thorough warm up and stretching before you start

    -for each exercise do a couple of lighter warm up sets before the full intensity ones.
     
    #15     Jun 15, 2010
  6. EON Kid

    EON Kid

    A sensational method to recover from injury, help joint/tendon soreness, strengthen body parts and also something that shocks your muscles into growth. Taught to me by an old time bodybuilder, but a hardly known method as nobody wants to be seem screaming with only one small plate on the barbell.

    The workouts should be just as intense and even more painful. 100 rep squats are a killer.

    100 Rep System

    choose a weight that is 30% to 40% of your best weight for 10 reps. Do 50 to 70 reps, rest 30 to 40 seconds and continue for another 30 to 40 reps ( the # of seconds that I rest for are the # of reps remaining ie I fail at 90 reps, so 10 reps remaining, put the barbell down for 10 seconds and then continue. The key is small rests just give the lactic acid a chance to clear)

    http://www.daryllaws.com/blog/89.html


    100 Rep System

    Question: I read about a system of 100 reps for training. How do you do 100 reps without wearing out completely? What is the purpose of such a workout and can you do it for everything?

    Answer: 100 rep systems similar to the one used by Terrell Owens' trainer, "Buddy Primm" are used to shock the body part being trained into new growth. Primm says it combines muscle growth and fat burning at the same time. Both fast-twitch and slow-twitch fibers are affected due to the intensity and the time under stress for the muscle. You can work one set of 100's into your training or make one day designated as 100's day and do 5 sets of 100 reps with various exercises. If you train at home this type of system allows you to use lighter weights so you don't need a wide variety of weights or a great amount of weight to workout effectively.

    If you want to do it with only one break in the set choose a weight that is 30% to 40% of your best weight for 10 reps. Do 50 to 70 reps, rest 30 to 40 seconds and continue for another 30 to 40 reps. Power 100's involve using a weight that is 40% to 50% of your 10 rep max. Do 10 reps, rest 10 seconds and repeat until you have completed your 100 reps. 10 sets of 10 are a common method using 50% to 60% of your 10 reps max. Do 10 reps, rest 30 seconds and repeat that pattern until you complete 10 sets. Ladder or buddy sets involve timing or a partner. These also use a weight that is around 50% of your 10 rep max. Do one rep, rest the amount of time it took for you complete that rep and do two reps. Rest for the time it took to do the two reps, then do three reps and repeat the pattern until you reach 10 reps. Then go back down the ladder from 9 reps to 1 rep using the same rest/work pattern.

    Some of the exercises used for 100 reps sets are for legs: squats, leg curls leg press and leg extensions. Back can be done with rows and pulldowns. Chest does well with bench press or incline dumbbells presses and even dumbbell flyes. Shoulders get murdered with overhead presses of any kind or dumbbell side laterals. Calves burn like they are ripping off the bone with either standing calf raises or the seated variety. Biceps get fried with curls of both the dumbbell and barbell variety. Finally triceps get a deep workout from skullcrushers, pressdowns or dips. You can even do supersets of 100 reps with opposing muscle groups like barbell rows and bench presses. Just alternate the exercises using one exercise as the rest period for the opposite exercise.

    100 reps training workout and exercises are not for the beginner. Most just don't have the muscle endurance, mental pain capacity and recovery ability to utilize these without extreme soreness. As you progress with your training you can work them into your workouts effectively.

    God bless and keep training,
    Daryl
     
    #16     Jun 15, 2010
  7. r-in

    r-in

    Thanks Daryl, I will look into this.
     
    #17     Jun 15, 2010
  8. I never used the clips at the end of bar for this very reason. If you get in trouble you can tilt the bar and let the weights slide off.
     
    #18     Jun 15, 2010
  9. EON Kid

    EON Kid


    That is so dangerous. When one side of weights slides off, the weighted side will flick the barbel over, you'll probably kill the kid watching and tear a few muscles in the process.

    As I said always use the barbell collars.
     
    #19     Jun 16, 2010
  10. Not true. You let one side slip off and then the other. You don't toss it off you.

    WTF you need clips for? If you can't keep the bar level you are working with too much weight.

    Clips are a waste of time and dangerous except for for dead lifts
     
    #20     Jun 16, 2010