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You know dozens of people from a single place that have chronic tendon/joint issues?
by orf 6mo ago
You know dozens of people from a single place that have chronic tendon/joint issues?
- ted_dunning 6mo agoSure. He says that they commonly use steroids. It's no wonder they have degenerative joint disease.
- diath 6mo agoYes? These types of injuries are common among bodybuilders and powerlifters.
- kube-system 6mo agoPfft -- they're common among anyone over 30 who exercises!
- JumpCrisscross 6mo ago> they're common among anyone over 30 who exercises They shouldn't be. If someone has chronic tendon or joint issues, that's something to discuss with a doctor and a trainer.
- defmacr0 6mo agoIt's very common when people start doing a new exercise regimen. Muscles can become significantly stronger on a timescale of months, while an equivalent increase in the strength of tendons happens on a timescale of a few years. Once somebody has a few years of training under their belt, muscle mass gains are way slower and the capacity of the ligaments will have caught up and these issues go away. However, with bodybuilders and strength athletes these problems can easily come back once anabolic steroids are involved and give big muscular gains without the same level of adaptations in connective tissues.
- kube-system 6mo agoI think we are, and I'd presume that's why sports medicine centers are so common.
- cheald 6mo agoHang out at a BJJ or MMA gym for a bit, and you'll find plenty. Peptides are really popular in combat sports circles, with good reason.
- cgh 6mo agoYou should hang out at a climbing gym sometime. There is nothing that unites climbers more than injury talk.
- phil21 6mo agoI don't doubt it. You make casual friends sometimes at certain gyms, especially if any sort of sports are involved like tennis or even group classes. I am a super introvert and know at least half a dozen folks with such issues, more if you include my close friend group. Any place that has a lot of physically active people stressing their limits a bit is going to have a lot of injured folks over a decent period of time. And of course it gets talked about quite a lot, since it limits performance and ability. My trainer knows I have a chronic shoulder issue, and an adductor issue at the moment I'm working through that we need to avoid stressing too much. The few other folks who tend to work out around my schedule know of this, and I know of theirs. Not very uncommon really.
- LMYahooTFY 6mo agoIt's often part of the life if you're lifting competitively.