Any advice, with regards to making sure my body doesn't resent my new hobby (strength training), or at least, doesn't punish me for it?
Thanks, Mike - I'll keep all that in mind, definitely.Lubricate your joints, eat enough and sleep enough and do less in each workout than the teenage bucks. Its a marathon, not a sprint.
Cheers,
Mike
See if I can post this in the right thread this time.
I wonder if there's something amiss with the way we've conducted our workouts over the years with amount of people you read about in their training logs and even in this thread of injuries/joint problems sustained and most are still well under 35 years of age.
Does a lot of said injuries come from lifting or other sports over the years? I know personally, my body was screwed well before I started lifting. If anything, it seems to be getting better.
I'm sure a lot of it might be from sports but it seems pretty common from lifting as well
To Darkoz and Goosey,
was i wise in dropping deadlifts seeing as i plan to be lifting for a while and don't plan to powerlifter but bodybuild? I felt as though my back was slowly getting worse and worse
You'll get 10 different answers on this one but my take is that it's not absolutely essential as a recreational Lifter to do any one exercise if you don't want to do it for whatever reason.
With deadlifts and squats more than any other exercises your form has to be spot on otherwise sooner or later you'll pay the price.
If you're having lower back problems and you know your deadlifting enough weight with good form then there might be other causes for it, I don't know and I can't make that call for you but if you know that deadlifts are directly causing you problems then I wouldn't hesitate dropping them from your routine.
I've never had any problems doing deadlifts but then again I don't do really low reps or 1 rep maxes with super heavy weights and I'm always sure to use good form.
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