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No doctor ever told me to lift weights, and I've been to many before I gave up on them. They'll tell you to lose weight, exercise, improve diet and whatever, su
by m0zg 5y ago
No doctor ever told me to lift weights, and I've been to many before I gave up on them. They'll tell you to lose weight, exercise, improve diet and whatever, sure, but very specifically, they will never tell you to lift weights. And not a single doctor I encountered knows what to do with men who train, besides advising them not to train.
They are, presumably, afraid that you might get "injured". To me the easiest way to get injured is to let one's back musculature to atrophy, and there are likely tens of millions people in the US alone with back problems because of this.
Unless you're about to die, or have a profitable chronic illness of some sort (such as, say, diabetes), US "healthcare" is borderline useless.
- f311a 5y agoYou just need to visit physiotherapist instead of a regular therapist.
- tommiegannert 5y agoI think this is part of the problem GP is highlighting: you have to know which type of doctor you want advice from. They specialize so hard that there's barely any overlap. Which ends up meaning you have to see a boatload of doctors to find something you can use to finally draw your own conclusions. I hate visiting doctors for some reason. Probably because we're supposed to just default-respect them, and I just see no reason to do that with how they're not able to help me. Edit: able to help rather than helping.
- pnutjam 5y agoI've lifted my entire life and never had a doctor tell me to stop. I go to the doctor regularly and I've changed doctors afew times. I also wish my wife and daughters would experiment with weight training, but they seem very resistant to it with some sort of fear of "bulking" up.