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Any tips on dealing with injuries whilst lifting? I got a partial tear and minor back tweaks while doing super light rdls but with an extreme ROM without bracing. I will keep working out but how do you deal with injuries psychologically and not be afraid of having a much bigger one in the future? I got my tear this June and have been using super light weights so that I slowly get back and started PT but I am sometimes afraid mentally even if there is no pain. My back tweak did go away after sleeping for 8 hours, i usually get 5, got 3 the day i fucked my back up.
Your injuries will heal . . .eventually. I'm certain I tore some kind of CL (mcl/acl/whatever) chasing a 500lb DL. I got stress fractures in my wrists chasing a 400lb BP. This was a 14 years ago when there was less info easily available. I scaled way back for like 2 years, then got back into it and got some kind of cramps in my back that put a sideways curve in my spine (visible to random strangers). That eventually went away when I scaled way back. I got back into it and hit the 500lb DL. Then I got tendonitis so bad that when I was playing music at a jam session, my biceps tendon popped back into place and the audience heard the crack over the music. Then I scaled way back. Then I got back into it and hit a 600lb DL. Then a 405 BP. Then I felt something tear in my lower back/upper glutes while doing . . . .super light rdls with an extreme range of motion and couldn't walk for like a week. It was the worst gym injury of them all. The fear of the pain hung like the barbell of Damocles over every workout, and I eventually tore it again. That was about 2 years ago. Now I'm all better, do a ton of cardio and pretty-boy machine work. I'm not as strong as I once was, but I'm in overall the best shape of my life.
I don't recommend my kamikaze approach to training, but I racked up enough injuries to be able to say that the fear that an injury won't heal is totally understandable and almost certainly unfounded. Play the long game; just keep doing something and you'll bounce back. Unless you're like 60.
PS: PT is only a half-step removed from chiro and aromatherapy. Kin tape is fake. Electric acupuncture is fake. Acoustic accupuncture is fake. Laser therapy to "break up the scar tissue" is fake. 5lb curls while standing on a wobbly board are fake. Massage for anything other than hedonistic purposes is fake. Strength and flexibility are real, but that's what the gym is for.
Massive respect, a 400 lb bench is no joke, same for the deadlift. I agree wholeheartedly with everything here. I'll go workout after some sleep, avoid stuff that will hurt my back, do my pt and keep hammering away until I'm as strong and big as I'd wanna be.
Every single decent physical culturalist I've interacted with has gotten injured, worse than me, as long as I don't act stupid, I'll be fine. I do appreciate the comment, seeing others having done and gone through worse is reassuring.
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