Desmond
10-04-2009, 01:07 AM
Summary : I recently turned 44 . I have been pretty active in the past but exercise slows down in the wet winter in New Zealand , 'old' injuries are returning after lying dormant .
At the age of around 39 I was doing a half deadlift with 400kg [ http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m300/dvdowns/me/pans4000072.jpg ] with no problems . One day at work , thinking I was invincible I took out a large metal object from a truck and turned around dropping it on the ground - sharp pain inside my hip on the right hand side . Feeling tough I still went to the gym but had to stop at 300kg because I couldn't take the pain anymore [ plain stupidity of course ] .
I stopped doing that and decided to just do cardio exercise to prevent further damage . That injury took a year to subside but now , 6 years later , it is suddenly hurting again .
It is spring now , I started doing a half hour walk around the farm , eventually narrowed it down to a 15 1/2 minute run and then went for a run with 2kg weights in my hands and possibly that woke up the injury which has been a dull 'hot' pain on the right hand side inside my hip close to my spine for about two weeks now .
About a year ago I posted here because my 25 year old ''golfers elbow'' injury was woken by a sharp jolt to my arm while holding something in a 'bicep curl ' position while someone smacked it with a hammer -the turbo , not my arm [ trying to separate a turbo housing ] .
It's scaring me - 2 years ago I hurt my knee from over-use while walking around a mountain with a heavy backpack , it took a year to recover .
Is it because I haven't really been doing much weight training or other activity besides the occasional walk ?
Why does my back start hurting when I start exercising again ? When I was picking up really heavy weights I never got injuries but when I slowed down with my exercise all the old injuries return to haunt me ?
It makes me scared because suddenly I start wondering how much longer I can keep climbing mountains and doing long hikes ..... I'm I getting hurt because I'm not strengthening my muscles enough ? How heavy can you train as you get 'older' ?
25 years ago I was an aerobics instructor , tomorrow [ Monday ] I'm going to go back and sign up at the gym for the first time in 5 years - I want to get stronger again but also don't want to overdo it as I have a tendency to do .
At the age of around 39 I was doing a half deadlift with 400kg [ http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m300/dvdowns/me/pans4000072.jpg ] with no problems . One day at work , thinking I was invincible I took out a large metal object from a truck and turned around dropping it on the ground - sharp pain inside my hip on the right hand side . Feeling tough I still went to the gym but had to stop at 300kg because I couldn't take the pain anymore [ plain stupidity of course ] .
I stopped doing that and decided to just do cardio exercise to prevent further damage . That injury took a year to subside but now , 6 years later , it is suddenly hurting again .
It is spring now , I started doing a half hour walk around the farm , eventually narrowed it down to a 15 1/2 minute run and then went for a run with 2kg weights in my hands and possibly that woke up the injury which has been a dull 'hot' pain on the right hand side inside my hip close to my spine for about two weeks now .
About a year ago I posted here because my 25 year old ''golfers elbow'' injury was woken by a sharp jolt to my arm while holding something in a 'bicep curl ' position while someone smacked it with a hammer -the turbo , not my arm [ trying to separate a turbo housing ] .
It's scaring me - 2 years ago I hurt my knee from over-use while walking around a mountain with a heavy backpack , it took a year to recover .
Is it because I haven't really been doing much weight training or other activity besides the occasional walk ?
Why does my back start hurting when I start exercising again ? When I was picking up really heavy weights I never got injuries but when I slowed down with my exercise all the old injuries return to haunt me ?
It makes me scared because suddenly I start wondering how much longer I can keep climbing mountains and doing long hikes ..... I'm I getting hurt because I'm not strengthening my muscles enough ? How heavy can you train as you get 'older' ?
25 years ago I was an aerobics instructor , tomorrow [ Monday ] I'm going to go back and sign up at the gym for the first time in 5 years - I want to get stronger again but also don't want to overdo it as I have a tendency to do .