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Quote from: LBSS on June 06, 2016, 08:49:28 am

adarq, we need a "brittlebro" team once the forum switches over. charter members: me, acole, scooby, you, maybe mutumbo000.

I'm definitely a member.

My lifetime sporting injuries include:

Double fracture of left leg
Broken left arm
Broken collarbone 
Broken Cheekbone
3 Hamstring Tears
Achilles Tendonosis
Groin strains
Hip flexor issues etc.

eek.. the combo of bone & tissue.

damn @ double fracture of left leg.

http://www.adarq.org/progress-journals-experimental-routines/adarq's-journal/msg120642/#msg120642

PR TRAIN: 

walk:
- unfortunately, no studying.. was drizzling out. sux.
- 9.14 mi in 2h:01m:47s 
- pace: 13:20 min/mi 
- speed: 4.48 mph 
- max speed: 5.4 mph 
- splits: 13:59, 13:27, 12:42, 13:30, 13:25, 12:35, 13:41, 13:40, 12:51, ~rest

other walking pr's:
- one hour: 4.56 mi 
- 3 mi: 39m:34s 
- 5k: 40m:54s 
- 10k: 1h:22m:34s 

Quote from: adarqui on June 06, 2016, 05:51:52 pm

Quote from: LBSS on June 06, 2016, 08:49:28 am

adarq, we need a "brittlebro" team once the forum switches over. charter members: me, acole, scooby, you, maybe mutumbo000.

yup, nice.



no wait.. high fiving our brittleness..

Quote from: T0ddday on June 06, 2016, 05:43:07 pm

Quote from: LBSS on June 06, 2016, 08:49:28 am

adarq, we need a "brittlebro" team once the forum switches over. charter members: me, acole, scooby, you, maybe mutumbo000.

I should be president of the club.  Hamstring rupture, 5 hamstring strains and 3 oblique strains and double knee tendinitis gotta hold sway.

yes, that definitely qualifies you to be a member. lmao!

but, this club must remain presidentless.. the last thing I want to think abut is eventually BECOMING the president of such a club.. HEH!#!@

my brittleness really shines through in how many bones i've broken during contact injuries. I don't even want to think about full tendon tears or serious muscle tears; just thinking about that stuff wrecks me mentally.

injuries = 

This is TOTALLY broscience but it does seem to me that your either a bone breaker or a tendon or ligament guy.  I've never broken a bone in my life despite boxing, gymnastics, football, basketball and a extremely reckless child.  When I was 13 I jumped off a monument to grab onto a tree branch on a dare and didn't realize the tree branch was wet... Slipped right off and fell almost 20 feet and landed on my arm and leg and walked away.  My bones are strong as hell but my tendons snap under heavy load. 

My theory is strong bones don't break but they are heavy so they add weight to your body.  The increased load is hard for your muscles to carry around and that overloads the tendon and causes it to rupture.  This is also my explanation for why I'm so heavy - people never think I weigh more than 200lbs and are shocked when I step on the scale at 225.  I trained w LBSS and he was about as thick as me with approximately equal leanness and only an inch shorter but 40 lbs lighter...

I carry more muscle than you right now but I swear you and I could look equally muscled and I would still be 30lbs heavier...

Maybe it's just grass is always greener mentality but I think I'd rather be a bone breaker...  Bones grow back stronger than tendons do.

i'll just jump in to second t0ddday's observation. his torso is bigger, my legs are bigger but if we were both wearing long pants and long sleeves we'd look comparable. fwiw, i've only broken little bones (nose, couple fingers). and my worst traumatic impact injury was bones getting dislocated; they didn't break.

but i've had a lifetime of nagging and acute joint injuries.

edit: list format

it definitely makes sense. I haven't had many muscle tears.

The worst one I had was still from a contact injury (basketball):
- where someone kneed down into my calf as I was planting to go up for a layup.

Other than that, i've had:
- sacral spine issue (genetic, permanent)
- arm break (stupid kid stuff, ~6 y/o)
- chipped tooth (basketball, ~9 y/o)
- osgood schlatter in both knees (~13-15 y/o)
- broken ribs (dirtbike accident, ~14 y/o)
- broken finger - avulsion fracture (basketball, ~12 y/o)
- broken finger (basketball, ~13 y/o)
- broken wrist (basketball, ~16 y/o)
- broken finger (basketball, ~20 y/o)
- completely dislocated pinky toe (boxing - drills on a man barefoot, ~24 y/o)
- broken index knuckle/torn ligament (boxing, ~25 y/o)
- major bicep tendon strain (~26 y/o, sandbag deadlifts/bearhug)
- destroyed toenails (basketball, running)
- and then I pretty much stopped contact sports................  no more breaks.

needless to say, my muscles have seemingly never been strong enough for pulls.

I've had a wide variety of small aches/injuries, ie:
- hamstring tendonitis from trying to become a natural GHR master on my natural GHR bench (never doing that again)
- knee tendonitis from cycling on a shit bike
- hamstring tendon partial tear from a stretching incident
- right elbow tendonitis from tennis/calisthenics, right adductor/hip flexor tendonitis from who knows.

edit: I've also had a few bad lacerations during basketball:
- split head open on temple @ ~19 (this one was worse, basically a faucet of blood, ~10 stitches)
- split top of forehead open two weeks later (~7 stitches)



i'm basically 146-148 right now and i'm still far from 'shredded'. I'm potentially "hollow man".. hollow-man-dunker. From my log, it's clear i'm not starving myself. So as long as i'm eating healthy and feel good, i'm willing to see how low my weight will go, naturally.. into the 'abyss'.

sad member of the brittlebros club.

pc!

Thanks for teh link!

I knew Vargas had heart, but, he showed even more than I expected. I thought he would end up on the losing side of the "who is the real killer" equation, which he did, but by round ~8 or so. That's when he switched up his game plan and started boxing more. It's impossible to just sit in there and go to war with Salido, that's his game.. So after seeing him do that round after round, I started to think it might not end well for Vargas. Yet, he probably hurt Salido more than Salido hurt him.

The last round was nuts.

Also, I love the fact that Lomanchenko wants a rematch with Salido.. There's no reason for him to make that fight, other than his urge to destroy Salido (who ended up beating him, but was way overweight on the scales etc). I'd love to see that again.. Lomanchenko had Salido badly hurt by the end of their first fight. If Lomanchenko wins this weekend, he might get that rematch.

Hey. Still here, last two weeks have been hectic at work. Drained me physically and mentally, didn't have courage or mood to workout. At the back of my head i also had the resting thing too,

ah damn. was probably a good thing that you got some rest in, after all, you consistently go hard. maybe your quads will be miraculously fixed too once you get back under the bar. :F

like everyone else in here i am unable to rest myself on demand to heal up sth, i just try to train around it. So forced rest sometimes is a blessing.

ya that seems to be a major problem EVERYWHERE. many of us are too addicted to training. if we're hurt, we know we should rest, but we train around it because "There are no rainy days" <insert motivational commercial, campaign, movie, etc>. We most often give solid advice to others, which includes rest or progressing slower; but we don't heed that advice ourselves. We also have this fear that gains will disappear if we rest, and in some cases they begin to, or at least feel like they do. If gains are not disappearing, but simply feel like they are disappearing (physically or mentally), well that's enough to wreck us mentally - and get us back out there.

There's this one running article I posted a while back where Lagat talks about how American runners simply can't rest. He says that in his experience, American runners feel like not training for even just one day, will lead to them getting worse. On the flip-side, Lagat takes one day off per week mandatory, runs much less than traditional runners (~70 miles or less per week) and takes 5 weeks off per month. He's looked at by most as having serious longevity in the sport; he's still performing/competing at the highest levels and he's over 40.

That shouldn't be news to us.. we've seen that mentality on this forum (admittedly, myself mostly), other forums, everywhere. We've seen professional athletes "suck it up" and play through pain/injury, as if it's a badge of honor.

I think we can draw an analogy between this mindset, and a corporate/wall street mindset (even the tech startup world). They have a similar issue in their culture; work every day, sleep is for the week. One of the very best ways to grow our intellect, is to get enough sleep. Yet, many of these folks wear 'lack of sleep' (~4 hours or less) as a badge of honor. Interestingly enough, probably the only way to succeed with no sleep in business, or no rest in athletics, is drugs; cocaine/adderall in business, various PED's in athletics.

Myself personally, i've been trying to change my own idea of rest into that of a form of training in itself; seemingly successfully so far. By considering rest days as more of a form of "STIM" (recovery as CNS stimulation), a mandatory method of repair, and by thinking about rest as a form of converting more IIa/IIx fibers, I think i've tricked myself into wanting to rest more than train. I now have forced mandatory rest days following any training day, and subsequent rest days if I feel like I won't be able to give 100%. This will most likely only work well if, when I do train, I train pretty hard (@ a high intensity). But needless to say, i've been trying to reform some concepts that have been deeply embedded within my mind, by various forces, from a very long time ago (25+ years). I've tossed around the idea of trying to achieve significant vert/performance gains without any weightlifting for a long time (i'm sure you can remember most of those instances), which to most, sounds ludicrous (almost rightfully so). But now, having not lifted for so long, while still training, I think i'm at the point where I might be able to start piecing it together (injuries permitting). Going this route, rest becomes an essential tool, IMHO.

Getting back at it today hopefully.

nice!!

pc!

- daily routine

meant to mention, i hit a milestone in geneva: full-ROM pistol on each leg with feet flat in sneakers. have always had to at least have my heel elevated a little; my shoes have a 4mm drop. the ankle mobility work is paying off at least in that small way. next stop, barefoot pistols for reps.

ooo nice.

with the new forum stuff i'm coding, we have groups that can be automatically joined, or invite only etc. we'll create some groups like barefoot-pistol-squad etc, and make them invite only. so they will become badge-like. I had only been thinking so far just using them for "teams" (that's what they are called in the code/ui), like; sprinters, jumpers, dunkers, oly weightlifters, powerlifters, runners, cyclers etc.. but after reading this post I remembered also with the calisthenics stuff that you mentioned which exercises you could do, ... nice.. we'll use teams like "badges" also.

 

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