I can do videos with weights, and I have small defined muscles, but whenever I try to lift a box of soda (6 bottles) I get shooting pain in my arm for days. Will I never get stronger than I am now ?
Will I ever get stronger ?
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well, i think a box of soda is heavy .. it's 6 2-liter bottles, filled.
I have pain! Lord, the pain. Oh, and my name. The shame, the shame to my name. From the pain. The strain on my name, the pain, ohhh when it pours it rains. Oh, Lord!
...Is this not the evangelical faith healing society? My bad. Must be the next room.
No but seriously, get that checked out NY.
I mean I have always been disproportionately healthy and completely injury free, so I can't really ever relate to anything of this nature, but even so I'm pretty sure that's not how it's supposed to work.
What type of videos? What weights? What kind of pain? Pain where exactly? Any prior injuries?
a lot of drs say that working out with 10 lbs of weight, 5 lbs each arm or leg, is sufficient. no, i hve had no previous injury or pain (less some knee pain when doing aerovics every day back in the mid 80's.)
are you all telling me that with my workout schedule, i should be able to shlep a box of soda or seltzer with no pain ?
are you all telling me that with my workout schedule, i should be able to shlep a box of soda or seltzer with no pain ?
I think you should see a sports medicine physician first of all. I'd also tell you that a lot of doctors know jack about working out.
Getting stronger has a lot to do wtih the central nervous system. The 10 and 5 lb weights, while at first might be heavy to the user, soon becomes pointless. To get stronger, you need to increase your intensity with the weights.
Be that as it may, it never got easy to use the set of 10’s that I have. That’s why I haven’t added more weight in a long time.
A lot of doctors are dumb, as evo said. And the ones who aren't, are being extremely free with the word "sufficient". So much so that I would question whether they understand its usage. Which leads us back to dumb.
Sort of. With your workout schedule and what it's been missing since adaptation set in, progressive overload, you most certainly should be able to shlep a box of soda or seltzer with no pain.
My 8 year old cousin can move "a box of soda" (in quotes to mean something of that shape, size and weight - in her case mostly boxes full of books) with no pain. And not all that much effort. She weighs 55 lbs. Not trying to be a jerk, here, but rather to emphasize that you should go get it checked out.
It'll never get easy unless you up the weight. Adaptation needs to be forced not gently coerced, I up weight every time I've managed to complete my set number of reps without reaching failure
This is a good way of putting it. Very poetic. Progressive overload. If you can complete it without losing your form, it's time to up the weight. Or, for some, if you can complete it any way at all.
But also, videos with weights doesn't exactly qualify as strength training imo. Why not lift heavy weight? The kind of weight that makes you sick. That makes you want to smack yo mama and roundhouse kick your father for not giving you better genes.
I can't remember if I've ever asked you, but is there some reason you don't do the more traditional weight training? Other than this problem with the shooting pain that is.
I haven't reached failure. I find it all challenging.
What the heck is schlep?