The Worst Weight-Training injury you've had

[Oceano]

I'm just about to re-enter the challenging world of weight-training and I'm keen to avoid injury so i thought we could share our injury experiences and work out how we can avoid such injuries in the future.

Id be thankful for your experiences.thanks again.

 

[mad dipz]

I'm just about to re-enter the challenging world of weight-training and I'm keen to avoid injury so i thought we could share our injury experiences and work out how we can avoid such injuries in the future.

Id be thankful for your experiences.thanks again.

well I'd think the obvious answer from most people would be bad form. Correct form will leave you injury free for the most part, excluding freak accidents and dumb decisions.

 

[ghettostudmuffin]

Bad form is not always the cause of an injury. The exercise it self can be the cause.

Case in point. I'm lifting in my bedroom in '96 to 2pac, excuse me, Machiavelli's Toss it up doing behind neck presses when the bar drifts too far to the rear on the descent. Problem? Seriously strained left shoulder. Couldn't lift for 4 weeks.

I swear I got a minor pec tear once as well and couldn't do any bench for 5-6 weeks.

Last, but fuckin certainly not least is when I was doing full squats about 6 years ago while standing on a 45lbs plate. I was a fuckin noob to squats and was descending rapidly and bouncing out of the bottom. Felt something odd on like rep 17 of a 20 rep squat set in my left knee(back when I was entranced by the HIT bullshit). Next morning I woke up and my knee was very painful and swelled up. Slowly over the course of 3-4 months it healed up to the point that I didn't semi-hobble every where. About 6 months after that my knee was still creaking and felt strained when descending into a full squat. I wasn't working at the time and was determined to solve the problem once and for all. For 1 month I literally did not not flex my left leg. I mentally created a cast on that leg. When I stood up I did it with the right leg and the left leg held straight. Same when I sat down. I never ran nor did I jump.
After about 4 weeks of this I slowly started doing leg extensions and free weight squats. After about 2 more months of this I was able to squat again and after 6 more months was squatting fairly respectably.

Ever since I have took squats VERY seriously as I do believe they are the #1 exercise and also the easiest to fuck yourself up on.

Those are the main ones that stand out to me.

 

[lavi]

heres what you gotta do:

STRETCH
WARMUP
FOAM ROLL
BALANCE YOUR ROUTINE (IE MORE HAMS/BACK AND LESS QUADS/CHEST)
SOME STABILITY AND PROPRIOCEPTIVE EXCERCISES
MAKE SURE YOU HAVE BEEN TAUGHT PROPER FORM

I KNOW THIS POST IS ANNOYING AND IN CAPS BUT I DONT CARE. IVE INJURED MYSELF TOO MANY TIMES AND IT MAKES ME ANGRY.

 

[liegelord]

Only lifting injury was last month doing squat cleans. I easily did the first 2 reps with 110k and on the 3rd I didn't catch the bar on my shoulders. No big deal, it's only 110k, I've done it before and still finished the lift. As I start to come out of the hole I can hear the ligaments in my wrists making a cracking sound. I decide it's probably best to miss this one and drop it.

Couldn't move my hands for a minute or so. I could barely get my seat belt on. We can probably post this in the morons thread.

 

[al420]

Only lifting injury was last month doing squat cleans. I easily did the first 2 reps with 110k and on the 3rd I didn't catch the bar on my shoulders. No big deal, it's only 110k, I've done it before and still finished the lift. As I start to come out of the hole I can hear the ligaments in my wrists making a cracking sound. I decide it's probably best to miss this one and drop it.

Couldn't move my hands for a minute or so. I could barely get my seat belt on. We can probably post this in the morons thread.

No way - the fact that you are doing Squat Cleans makes you moron proof.

 

[silver_shadow]

i once lost all my hair... i then stopped lifting weights! so now i look like a sasquatch. oh and i'm not fat anymore.

 

[Lee]

never been injured because of lifting, but the worst injury i had that prevented me from lifting was a lower back subluxation, the arch in my lower back was 20 degrees instead of the normal 30. prevented me from doing everything except just squeaking by at work in serious pain all day. pretty crappy 3 months there.

 

[Nathan]

I couldn't for the life of me think of anything but it hit me: I dropped a 100lb DB on my quad one time, two weeks ion a row like an idiot. I'm not sure what I did exactly, but I hit something and did some serious damage. The first time it really fucking hurt, but the second time was excruciating and I actually went into shock that night because of it - getting stoned that night could have contributed though.

I couldn't bend my quad fully for about 3 months. For the first few weeks, I couldn't bend my leg at all. I had to get into and out of bed all awakwardly, getting into cars sucked, etc. I still have no idea what in the hell I did.

 

[plifter]

I've had 2 rotator cuff surgeries in the past 2 years on different sides. It was just from prolonged heavy use. I started building up bone spurs. My rotator cuff was catching the spurs on certain movements which lead to partial tears. I don't know how I could have prevented this other than avoiding heavy weights all together.