Dissident Sound on Nostr: my garage door opener is temporarily not working ( plastic gear snapped, i have a ...
my garage door opener is temporarily not working ( plastic gear snapped, i have a replacement one but it wasn't installed yet ). yesterday after a nice workout at the gym i manually opened ( and closed ) the garage door to take the garbage wheelie bin out - no problem.
this morning after waking up i go to open the garage door manually again to take the wheelie bin back in - and pull something in my back.
now it is painful just to sit in front of computer.
i think it was a combination of a few things:
1 - i was still from yesterday's workout followed by a night of sleep
2 - i didn't warm up or stretch
3 - i bent over at an awkward angle to grab the garage door ... unlike a barbell the garage door limits where you can put your head and i got greedy and instead of grabbing the door at a comfortable height i decided to grab it from the bottom so i don't have to switch my grip while opening it ( to save time and avoid risk of pinching fingers ) and that required me to bend sideways to the left and i immediately felt pain ...
but i thought to myself this isn't pain - it's just soreness from yesterday's workout followed by a night of sleep so instead of letting go i just opened the garage door ...
but it was pain rather than soreness after all
the lessons here are:
1 - always warm up and do some light and easy stretching before lifting ( gurus these days say don't stretch - but they also say you don't need Vitamin C etc. - ignore them )
2 - warm up and stretch using the exact movement pattern you will use while lifting
3 - be wary of odd angles and if you must use them make sure the weight is WAY lower than what you use with normal angles
with over 30 years of lifting experience i probably should have known better than to do what i did but reality is as you keep getting older even when you do everything right sometimes you will get injured simply because you developed a new weakness ( from age ) that you were not aware of and what you were doing seemed safe based on your past experience - but your past experience no longer applies to your new reality.
so ultimately because of aging you can't completely avoid injuries but you can always do better.
this morning after waking up i go to open the garage door manually again to take the wheelie bin back in - and pull something in my back.
now it is painful just to sit in front of computer.
i think it was a combination of a few things:
1 - i was still from yesterday's workout followed by a night of sleep
2 - i didn't warm up or stretch
3 - i bent over at an awkward angle to grab the garage door ... unlike a barbell the garage door limits where you can put your head and i got greedy and instead of grabbing the door at a comfortable height i decided to grab it from the bottom so i don't have to switch my grip while opening it ( to save time and avoid risk of pinching fingers ) and that required me to bend sideways to the left and i immediately felt pain ...
but i thought to myself this isn't pain - it's just soreness from yesterday's workout followed by a night of sleep so instead of letting go i just opened the garage door ...
but it was pain rather than soreness after all
the lessons here are:
1 - always warm up and do some light and easy stretching before lifting ( gurus these days say don't stretch - but they also say you don't need Vitamin C etc. - ignore them )
2 - warm up and stretch using the exact movement pattern you will use while lifting
3 - be wary of odd angles and if you must use them make sure the weight is WAY lower than what you use with normal angles
with over 30 years of lifting experience i probably should have known better than to do what i did but reality is as you keep getting older even when you do everything right sometimes you will get injured simply because you developed a new weakness ( from age ) that you were not aware of and what you were doing seemed safe based on your past experience - but your past experience no longer applies to your new reality.
so ultimately because of aging you can't completely avoid injuries but you can always do better.