Damn, hope you heal up soon my man. Injuries suck, especially if they occurred doing something otherwise safely and within your ability.
I actually didn't feel my injury when it occurred. After racking the bar I was stoked as hell, and went down to 2 plates for some back off sets. It was only then I realised something was up.
Here's to kicking our own asses in the gym.
Thanks I really appreciate that. Your experience sounds very similar to mine where you did not know until sometime after....
Community norms here discourage divulging too much personal information, so I will only say that as one gets older, the joints become more vulnerable. I am afraid I am starting to see that. It has not yet happened in earnest, but the day will come where the joints cannot do what muscle can, and then if I am not really strict the muscles will follow.
I will divulge that I have struggled since Covid. I had actually fallen off the wagon for several years then in 2019 I got my fat ass back in the gym (used to be pretty serious). Just when I started showing real gains and getting close to how I used to be, lockdowns happened and the gyms were closed for over a year. Since covid mortality and hosptialization is directly linked with poor phyiscal fitness, utterly assanine policy. Indeed, I think that it was I was hitting the gym hard to undo much of the damage I did to my body that I was only sick for about three days end of March 20 (when people were freaking out because no one really knew what this was and the fear porn was at its maximum)
Then when they opened, you had to wear a fucking mask. I was not doing that so I just stayed home. That went away May 21 and it was hard to get back but I did July, then fell off after New Years because of some personal issues.
A confluence of circumstances have been weighing me down, much of it fitness related but a lot of it not. Recovering from the damage during the lockdowns is part of it, seeing people wear masks at the gym and other interpersonal conflicts are part of it, then dealing with these nagging injuries that I never had is demoralizing to me. There are other things to which are just made shitty that my attempts to get to where i want to be keep suffering setbacks.
Hope I can go tomorrow but my wrist felt a little still tender. Embarassingly enough, I think the wrist was made vulnerable from excessive self phone use.
I do have some weight lifting gloves with wrist supports, I do not favor them because I want those muscles in the wrist to face resistance but I think I will use them for a while. I have a 25 lbs dumbbell at home I use to sort of gauge how that left wrist feels.
I hope my comment re an impinged shoulder was helpful. I think that is what it was just based on how I was able to get back in so soon. The one thing I do not want to happen is to have a major shoulder injury. That has ended professioanl athletes' careers, and some people are never the same even with surgery. I am pretty sure though if I grow old (really old, say60 plus, it will happen before I die).
