question for you guyz

[juggy54]

When yall are on do you sometimes get to a point where you can go up but you dont because of joints? Last week i did a heavy set of squats and set a Personal best of 405 eight reps.......a couple days later my knees were killing me.....im not sure if it was the squats........it could be plyos we do in offseason, im not sure. I guess the question im asking is do any of yall get worried about tearing a ligament or injuring a joint when you have the muscular strength to do more?

 

[mr.nitro]

nope. ive had sore backs and sore tendons, but my joints are fine.

 

[dsh89]

Always bro. You have to be sure you are not adding too much weight too quickly.

 

[juggy54]

do you just go by the way you feel? do you think goin up 10 lbs would be ok? the last thing i need is an injury befoe spring ball

 

[dsh89]

I get knee pain often. I just wrap them when I lift and listen to my body. If they hurt to bad I go a little lighter until they feel better that is all.

 

[brino]

i get it too but i only wrap on HEAVY SETS and i dont do that too often, it has been better this last year cause i warm up better try that

 

[macrophage69alpha]

joints and tendons are the most common limiting factors, your muscles are actually physically capable of much heavier loads.

 

[ironclaw]

that thought crosses my mind every time I train legs heavy, you've got to know your limits, don't push your muscles past the tendons' capacity

 

[brino]

lately ive had a lot of elbow probs so it took it easy and very light for a month and it seems to be better the last thing u want to do is hurt yourself sao if u gotta chill out it wont kill u

 

[Sassy69]

Pay attention to those things - very easy to end up w/ tendonitis. This was exactly my situation last summer - ended up taking most of the last 6 months off or randomly training and always spendign a week recovering. Trip to an orthopedic surgeon verified tendonitis in both shoulders and bursitis, some small amount of arthritis in my right knee. But MRI verified nothing torn. Basically wrap when you are going heavy --- or if you notice pain in your joints, drop back your weights some and work back up slowly, paying more attention to what hurts afterwards than how much you can push during.

Once the joint stuff starts to happen, its not like it "goes away"...