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There’s plenty of people who work out badly and eventually their injuries stop them from working out. You don’t hear much about them though. I for one messed u

There’s plenty of people who work out badly and eventually their injuries stop them from working out. You don’t hear much about them though. I for one messed up my shoulders when I was a teenager and not knowing what I was doing in the gym and all that took years of stretches and re-learning how to engage the muscles and proper form. I have a childhood friend who worked out so badly as he was obsessed with muscular mass he worked himself out into a massive hunched hulk, I think he was also taking steroids at some point. He evetually had to stop due to health reasons and massive headaches from a badly worked out neck. These are just 2 examples but there are lot more people who misuse weights. You only hear about the success stories unfortunately… I prefer calistenics as it is a bit harder to mess up. One can build a beautifully harmonious and resilient body just with these. As far as strength goes I need just enough to leverage my body smartly but that is my personal choice.

dukeofdoom 3y ago
I did the same for bench pressing. I had to adapt as well. I now mostly use smith machines for most of my workout. As I find that they control the movement better, to keep you aligned, and actually the duration of the contraction / pump can happen for a longer time span of the motion. I used to keep reef aquariums. I've learned that keeping the same aquarium successful at one year, is very different than success at ten years. As the probability of something catastrophic killing the tank increases with time. Log term, I've had things like pumps failing, tanks cracking, a power grid going out for a week. Catastrophic things are almost inevitable long term. After all something 3,000 wars in recorded human history. So even war breaking out could happen.
drowsspa 3y ago
Your childhood friend was definitely taking steroids. And thing is, they don't really develop your tendons and other supporting tissues, and definitely not your cardiovascular system. So they tend to gain strength and muscles so fast the rest of the bodies doesn't have time to adapt. And in the case of "massive hulks", no body can really adapt to all that muscle mass. About calisthenics, I think it's for people with proper motor coordination. You have to be able to pay attention to your whole body because one hand out of position can also mean an injury. Gym equipment, or even free weights, have way more "form cues" you can use to see if you're doing them right (if you truly care about form, that is).

dukeofdoom 3y ago

I did the same for bench pressing. I had to adapt as well. I now mostly use smith machines for most of my workout. As I find that they control the movement better, to keep you aligned, and actually the duration of the contraction / pump can happen for a longer time span of the motion. I used to keep reef aquariums. I've learned that keeping the same aquarium successful at one year, is very different than success at ten years. As the probability of something catastrophic killing the tank increases with time. Log term, I've had things like pumps failing, tanks cracking, a power grid going out for a week. Catastrophic things are almost inevitable long term. After all something 3,000 wars in recorded human history. So even war breaking out could happen.

drowsspa 3y ago

Your childhood friend was definitely taking steroids. And thing is, they don't really develop your tendons and other supporting tissues, and definitely not your cardiovascular system. So they tend to gain strength and muscles so fast the rest of the bodies doesn't have time to adapt. And in the case of "massive hulks", no body can really adapt to all that muscle mass. About calisthenics, I think it's for people with proper motor coordination. You have to be able to pay attention to your whole body because one hand out of position can also mean an injury. Gym equipment, or even free weights, have way more "form cues" you can use to see if you're doing them right (if you truly care about form, that is).