Joint pain while lifting

screechhater · 2019-07-27T12:58:44+00:00

You don’t mention sleep

Also, what is your diet

What are your lifts ? What are your warm up sessions ?.

I’m 49. I need 3 warm up sets. I’m sore constantly. The joint pain for me, is from desk sitting. Much worse after a few days of sitting constantly

Lower your loads and concentrate on seriously getting your movements into excellent form

red_mainframe · 2019-07-27T12:59:35+00:00

Could also try lighter weight, higher reps with tempo. The tempo almost forces you to stay in good position throughout the lift. Look up Charles Poliquin, he used tempo all the time in his programs. But listen to your body, joint pain could be an underlying medical issue.

RPeed · 2019-07-27T13:56:35+00:00

If you don’t use knee sleeves and wrist wraps - and possibly elbow sleeves - give them a try.

SteveStJohn · 2019-07-27T14:40:56+00:00

I'm a decade older than you and experienced similar problems a few years younger than you are now. Conclusion:

Getting older ain't for sissies. I lift some, but don't do anything like I did in my youth: deadlifts, bench press, anything that compresses the spine.

I focus on form and reps. On some exercises (like leg extensions) I could lift substantially more weight, but my knees are shot from running so I stay with the lower weight.

I'm past the point of caring what the guys (and gals) half my age think of my routine. There are girls lifting more, and older guys. So what! My routine is professionally approved by a physical therapist.

Anyone shit test me about the low weight? Sure do. Just AA, "usually I use the pink weights. If this goes well, I'll move up to blue weight."

Take care of yourself, and good luck.

heyguysjoinmyclan · 2019-07-27T12:51:32+00:00

This is a blessing in disguise. Similar thing happened to me but both of my shoulders were in terrible pain from working out for many years. Please read the book "Convict Conditioning". It's all about bodyweight fitness. This not only made my workout regimen completely new again, I am in better shape now than I ever have been. If my shoulders weren't hurting so bad I never would have found this new road. Convict conditioning type workouts and yoga - you'll love it.

Taipanshimshon · 2019-07-27T13:04:52+00:00

Go see a Doctor who also lifts.

( Good luck finding this though)

At 35 your joints shouldn't be flaring up.

Compressed discs at your age tell me that either you injured yourself in the past or your form is ) was shit

Cmvplease2 · 2019-07-27T13:49:19+00:00

I'm 37 and don't have any joint issues. I've taken glucosamine on and off over the last decade whenever I get a ligament or joint injury. Maybe that has prevented age related deterioration. I've heard it takes like 6 months for it to make a difference. Sounds like I should start taking that again.

umizumiz · 2019-07-27T15:20:11+00:00

Have you tried yoga?

I always thought it was bullshit until I started doing a 5 minute yoga stretch routine twice a day.

Had back pain for around 12 years, within 6 months my pain was down 50%. After a whole year, I've been 100% pain free. Can bend, turn, etc. All pain free.

But I have to keep doing the yoga stretch routine daily or I can feel it starting to seize back up.

Turmeric, black pepper, ginger. Those are three natural anti-inflammatory foods. Daily, I take turmeric(1g) w/ black pepper added.

Good luck on recovery, bro.

Spez: whoops, you already take turmeric. There's also something called Reservatrol(so?) that I haven't tried but is supposedly good.

hack3ge · 2019-07-27T16:55:00+00:00

How long have you been cutting?

Your T is probably in the shitter which means you aren’t making any E2. I was in a similar situation and nothing I did mattered - joints were always sore and a huge issue to the point where I’d have to skip days.

Not saying don’t try other stuff just keep in mind it might be a good idea to lay off the cut to get your T back up and to get some bloodwork done if it doesn’t get better.

I had terrible joint pain for 6 months and 1 week on TRT and I was back to new.

HappyPants350 · 2019-07-27T14:24:00+00:00

Some grip training could help your elbows. I deal with golfers and tennis elbow off and on. It's a battle between working them and not getting them flaired up. One of the keys to it is making sure the muscle on both sides of your wrist is balanced.

redninja77 · 2019-07-27T15:04:45+00:00

What's the best way to get your form checked to make sure you don't screw up your joints? Personal trainer?

RoccoPinkman · 2019-07-27T15:52:17+00:00

MSM, omega 3 (I take 12 grams per day), green lipped mussel powder (Amazon) and glucosamine. Your 35, if you don’t have arthritis it’s either lack of sleep, calories or a deficiency in your diet , overtraining or your form isn’t as good as you think it is.

BobbyPeru · 2019-07-27T16:55:44+00:00

I used to have terrible joint problems. I use the copper elbow wraps and good wrist wraps, and it’s become very manageable

fuckmrp · 2019-07-27T17:54:37+00:00

Stretch. And I don’t mean that sidebend bullshit i see most do. Get a stretching strap, use it daily. Hold each stretch for 2-3 minutes.

I’ve seen so many knee problems disappear when proper stretching is introduced.

markpf73 · 2019-07-27T18:11:51+00:00

Sometimes you just have to flush out that inflammation.

My doc had me take 3 Advil, 3 times a day for 3 weeks and then taper off. Worked and usually do it about 1 time a year when my knees and hips start screaming at me.

RedPill-BlackLotus · 2019-07-27T22:53:18+00:00

I am at a caloric deficit now and not sure that is helping. Down to 180, 5'10. Probably 12% BF. Really want to cut to 170 but these last 10 are a bitch.

Mint! I like that plan.

Cardio makes me feel like a faggot

Boooo it's way harder to chop off thoes last 10 without cardio.

I think your selling yourself short with your cardio mindset. Like the top poster said, his injury was a gift, it forced him to change.

Switch to a different training style and add in cardio. Use the downtime to learn new movements and chop off that last 10 pounds of fat. Work on that diet.

stoicranger · 2019-07-28T10:33:38+00:00

Your lifting days are most certainly not over, stop victim puking.

'Flaring up' could be signs of inflammation.
Inflammation in muscles/joints often stem from excessive stress.
Excessive stress of certain muscles could be a result of you having strength-gaps in the supporting muscles and/or lack of mobility in your joints and muscles (for example: activation of lower abdominals and glutes are common problems) and thus compensating with other muscles/bad form.

Let me give you an example of compensating, with the overhead press:

The overhead press requires sufficient shoulder mobility for you to put the bar straight over your head. Say now that you're lacking the 180 degree movement capacity in your arms starting from alongside your body with fingers pointing at the floor and ending with the fingers pointing at the roof completely vertical, WHILST maintaining a neutral spine. It is extremely common to compensate this with arching your lower back to get the bar over your head. This would eventually result in pain in your lumbar area.

I would look into mobility and core work with the intent to eliminate any compensating structures you have (we all have them). The training is boring as shit, but incredibly useful. DM me if you want me to point you in the direction of the good sources on this.

nantucketghost · 2019-07-30T02:59:08+00:00

Late to the party, so I hope you get this. I also had joint issues and thought lifting with not for me. That is until I started at zero. What I mean is start with just the bar and work your way up. It sounds silly and the first couple weeks in sure seems it, but those joint issues I had while squatting went away.

All I can figure is my main muscles could lift the weight but my weaker stabilizer muscles could not handle it and therefore was creating joint pain.

You may have a different issue altogether but I’m telling you this did work.

Title	Joint pain while lifting
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Date	July 27, 2019 12:41 PM UTC (7 years ago)
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