So anyway I've been getting this shooting pain down my forearm when i do most tricep related movements, i figured it was some nerve issue.
Hit up the physio today, he pretty much confirmed this but said it was quite common and fixable. Did some 'dry needling' in my arm which hurt reasonably bad. However said after another session next week the nerve pain should hopefully be gone!

Also i have ganglions in both wrists which can be a massive pain in the arse when lifting, if they're stirred up. This can only be fixed by surgery


What are your war stories

About 2 years ago I was lifting a roadcase about 1.25 cubic metre sized roadcase with a workmate in the back of a truck. It would have weighed around 120kg.

As we lifted he suddenly lost his grip on the handles on his side and the roadcase fell with the weight of the case twisting me and bending me sideways to the left almost 90 degrees at the hip.

This did quite a bit of damage to my muscles and I had a lot of pain around my T8 & T10 vertebrae and my lats. I ended up having nearly three months off work while I rehabilitated. For a long time I had a lot of lower back pain for almost 24 hours a day.

When I do a heavy set of seated rows now or a similar exercise I can feel little pin pricks of pain around the nerves in my erector spinae and I often still wake up with lower back pain. I also feel a bit of pain in my back from the pressure that a heavy leg press puts on it when bracking against the backrest of the seat.

chipped my tooth today at the gym, the barbell gave me an upper cut

My right knee is fucked from kickboxing/footy. If I don't warm it up properly before training, I can't walk properly by the time I get home.

Racehorse kicked me just above the knee, wasn't allowed to walk for a week except to go to the bathroom. I went freaking crazy..never knew there is actually a limit to how much t.v you can watch.

I have a fucking ear infection at the moment.


Haven't been to the gym for over 5 days as my balance has gone to shit. Chewing food hurts my ear canal as well so I haven't been eating as much as I should while trying to bulk up.


Makes working as a sound engineer hard too cos I can't hear properly.

Dislocated my shoulder playing game of footy last year, it was just after half way through the game when it happened, just tackled a guy a bit wrong and bang out she popped, stood there having a WTF moment for a sec not being able to move my arm and wondering what i had done because i couldn't really feel shit for about 20 secs then i tried to move it with a fair bit of force and it popped back in which hurt like shit....this is the point where i should have stopped playing but it was a charity match to raise money for my mates who got bashed to deaths foundation so i kept playing, was ok for the rest of the match but that night was all kinds of fucked up. Stupid thing is i never saw the physio about it and it's still pretty bad, alot weaker and i still don't have full movement and it feel like i can pop out again easily....really need to see that physio.

I went back to the physio because the needles seemed to make my arm worse ..couldnt even bench on monday. He said that was normal for the 1st session to do that, it just 'activated more triggers' which he stuck more needles into.

last appointment next week no matter what i think, at $85 ill figure something out

knees arent liking the cold at the moment

I've torn my left rotatorcuff a couple of times, and a slight tear in my left pec once, and both are playing up a bit at the moment. Sadly it's been flaring up more because of work than anything. Getting a bit frustrated with my strength levels in all areas at the moment, seems I had too long a break from proper training, and muscle memory just isn't what it used to be. So definately won't be competing this year, really need to get my quads back up to scratch before I can even consider it.

Sublaxed rib from Muay Thai, I went to the physio and she was able to move it back in a little bit but is still out. So you can imagine my erector spinae and traps tightening around the area to protect it I had very little movement at one stage, it hurt like hell when it happend!!

trained bench and tri's last night didnt notice the nerve. Don't know if it was from physio treatment or because i had it strapped. My trainer doesnt want me going deep with dips, military press, bench and pulldowns for a while though which is a bit crap

At least it sounds like you are on the improve. Maybe just a couple of easy weeks for you and you will be back on track.

My it bands have just started playing up due to all the running and increased work load from weights. Damn it hurts, especially when you get a massive shock in the side of the knee..

Also have sciatica in right leg that plays up if i don't stretch my piriformis enough, now this hurts!!

Also have disc protrusion in L4/L5 which is linked to my sciatica..thus cains when i don't do an exercise correctly. This mainly plays up if i do a bent of row and not in the exact position i should be..

Well I managed to fuck my left knee once again last night while training legs. Going to have to bite the bullet and get some physio I think. Possibly some anti imflammatories from the doctor too. Pretty sure it's just some bad tendonitis

punched some dude in the face at a club and broke my finger its been hurting for ages..... so fucking annoying he deserved it but.

What did he do?

Both knees have had ligiments pulled and torn over the years, left knee is worse and will require a re-co in the future. Every morning in winter it is aching and i cant walk real crash on it for about 10 minutes until it loosens up a bit.


Smashed my right hip into the goal posts playing junior footy as a kid, couldnt run on it for a few months and it still hurts in the cold.


And a bit of sciatica in winter the last few years gives me greif, but ive found a good solution for that over the last week so hopefully i can control that.


Done plenty of injuries but they've all healed up 100%, those 3 are the constant nigglers though.

my right wrist is fucked again, the surgery is sounding mighty tempting. shame im too much of a wuss. Can only bend it about 10 degrees. does anyone know where i can get some heavy duty wrist straps..i mean heavy duty. Something like

CONVICT PRO Wrist Wraps 12inch as seen here : http://www.getstrength.com/Straps-and-Hand...l-products.html

but not in NZ

ripped my sternum once. had the worst pain for ages and couldnt train for like 6 weeks

Got a muscle tear in my right shoulder atm.

had a go at me cause i didnt have a lighter rofl... domd him good

Yeah my left knee gets pretty bad when running or on the bike, after about 10 mins of excersise it really starts knockin' me around.

didn't have a lighter at the gym? funny that

my mate recommended me this site www.getstrength.com which is based in NZ in regards to quality straps etc for anyone who's interested

I run lax ligaments (They're weak through out my entire body which causes shit to dislocate) and have had i think 8 dislocations in my right shoulder before a reco and i think 6 in my left, makes progressing in bench mighty difficult as well as always having to have some one there to drive me to the hossie if it dislocates!

when i do fly's my left shoulder clicks like right where the middle delts are fuckin cains
so yea i try to stay away from them now

i crashed my yz 85 into a bush basher twing a trailer full of drunks haha got run over n seperated my pelvis and now any heavy lifting n me lower back up the shitter for days also was walkig with me ex missus one night some blokes put his hand up her skirt ive flogged him broke my hand so decided id use my elbow n chipped a bone in that and my hand never healed nor did my elbow try texting with a bone in ya hand healed out of shape not much fun lol gotta buy hiptop style phones or i cant use em

Got tackled from behind, shoulder into my lower back screwed me up a bit. Couldn't run for 2 months and had extreme pain when walking.

I'm going to phsyio in about 5 minutes to get my left knee looked at. It's not getting any better, some days worse. Haven't done any cardio what so ever in over a month. Hurts to even walk some days now.

yeah I got worried the other week when my knee buckled doing squats, but it's all good now

I've had good news, nothing structural. Was pretty much as I suspected. I have tight IT bands down the side of my quads and my hips are too weak compared to the rest of my quad muscles, which is pulling my knee caps out to the sides. A few weeks of exercises along with massages and I'll be back squating in no time.

Bloody girlfriend is a qualified physio as well as a doctor but she is away at the moment, so I just went and paid some guy down the road.

Well I have a new injury to put me out of training for a few weeks now. Have a slight fracture and sprained ligaments in my left hand from a motorcross accident on Thursday. My hand is blown up massive with swelling, and can't do much with it at all. Certainly can't use it, not even to pick up car keys. Typing is a bitch, back to one hand lol.

No point in getting upset about it, just take some more time off and get it better before I come back. So I will have the best calves in the gym after the next few weeks lol.

hahaha before I read the last sentence I was gona say you can still do calf raises

Its pretty much always my left shoulder, was benching and went a bit wide and my dumb fuck spotter wasn't looking and I started calling his name because people were all around me and I couldn't drop it or I'd hurt them, pulled my shoulder like all fuck and I got this searing pain and dropped it. I went absolutely nuts at my spotter..

^^^ similar thing happened to me yesterday. I was an idiot and decided to do military press without a spotter going until fail on my third set...needless to say go to my 12th rep, nearly failed so i push hard and the weight in my left arm feel backwards and just about dislocated my shoulder as i tried to drop it. Was a scary occurrence because i could have easily dislocated my shoulder or broken something. It hurts like shit now and keep clicking

From top to bottom...

Neck - I stretch it and it cracks. Every day. Several times a day.
Clicky jaw (karate)
Torn sterno-clavicular ligaments (jujitsu)
Torn R shoulder ligaments (jujitsu)
Torn L elbow ligaments (gymnastics)
Arthroscopies on both wrists (gymnastics)
Crushed meniscus with both knees (jujitsu)
Torn L calf muscle (boxercise, then re-done 2x jujitsu)
Torn R ankle ligaments (jujitsu)

Yeah, I know, I see the pattern too, but all my ligaments and joints are screwed from gymnastics.

my old slight scalene tear is playing up a bit of late

Well it's been nearly four weeks, and today I gripped a 2kg dumb bell in my left hand. Did some slight rotator cuff movements, still very slight pain in the hand, but not too bad. Still a few more weeks til I can do anything with it really. But at least it feels like it's getting there slowly. In the meantime, I have awesome calves lol.

My left hand pinkie finger flared up and swelled too double after i must have re-injured it doing lat pull downs from a double dislocation i had a few years ago...sucks!

Well it's now just over 5 weeks since my hand injury, and just over 6 weeks since I have done any upper body training til today. I am now able to do some back exercises, cable row and lat pull downs. I can grip the bar by making a hook with my 4 fingers, leaving my thumb well out of it. So pulling exercises I can do, still a fair way off any pushing for chest or shoulders. But happy to be making progress

what was wrong again? thumb?

Slight fracture, and sprained tendons and ligaments in my hand and wrist.

you might recognise this fella on the australian apprentice

http://channelnine.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=866604

he trains at goodlife in the valley. Quite random, hes pretty solid


OT: my old scalene tear has been playing up a little

tennis elbow, 10weeks now

Ooh, complaining time. One shoulder is 4cm lower than the other (from wearing an over-the-shoulder to TAFE with 14kg of textbooks in it), stupidly knotted muscles in my neck/back, fair bit of pain in my left ankle (mainly around my achilles tendon) after a couple of rounds of skipping and knee's that don't do what they're meant to (I couldn't even squat up until the start of the year).

Haha yeah I've seen him around and said hello a few times.

could he look any stiffer

My knees have improved... Used to get alot of pain when running for any more than 1 minute at a time, now i have no problems running for 15+!

Relationship status: in a girlfriend

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