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bigmike20vt

bigmike20vt

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what a mad 2 weeks
2 weeks ago I pulled a muscle in my left shoulder/neck.
booked in physio for Friday just gone however before I got to it I managed to tweak my lower back weeding (probably because of crap posture due to my neck)
I had the physio on my shoulder and a bit of work on my back whilst at it and it was feeling a lot better so chanced a game of pickelball today and now have pulled my calf muscle and can't walk . felt a horrible pop . I just hope it's a minor class one and not a full tear.

I know they say things come in 3s but this takes the pee!.

sorry not sure why posting. just need to vent., am fed up!
 
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cu3ed said:
Think when I hit 50 ill just juice myself to the gills and hit the gym lol.
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this was kind of my plan (albeit not the gym)... 2024 was a terrible year for me health-wise In terms of sitting on my fat ass and if eating was an olympic sport I would be representing Britain at the Olympics.

over Xmas I was looking at the family calendar we made for my parents with me and the lad on with a photo from each month in 2024 and not only my weight (which has always been an issue) but my lad had gone from sturdy to podgy in that time and I decided I was a crap role model.
I knew running was out as I used to do that and started having calf issues so have been swimming since January. my fitness has improved significantly so added in badminton and pickleball and only a few months into that this has happened.
I just hope it doesn't balls up my swimming. the racket sports are mostly for fun but the swimming is vital to me getting in shape
 
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fez said:
The marvellous thing about the human body is that there is a complete disconnect between what your brain thinks you can do and what your body can actually handle. This disparity only gets worst with time and the differential between what you had and what you have got.

Shockingly when you are 50 and 5 stone overweight you can't handle the same activity as you could when you were 20 and 5 stone lighter.
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perhaps not.

but you can try........ and then go and moan on a computer hardware forum when it all goes wrong :D
 
slinxy said:
I ripped the muscles from one side of my spine when I was in my late 20s while changing a car tyre... I was in quite a state where I couldn't walk for a period of time, so now a days if i sit still for too long my back can seize up. I can't go bowling with the way you have to bend over to that side.

I thought I twisted my knee while playing football.. never saw anyone about it, it would just hurt if I walk too much and holding bite on the clutch would cause pain too..
It was like that for a good few years, till I was sitting on the desk at work swinging my leg then I jumped off and landed.. everyone on the office heard the crunch as my knee popped back in to place and I had tears in my eyes as I hopple back to my desk.

now a days, that leg is much weaker than my other leg but it is working now, trying to stregthen it with some weight training but it's there's a long way to go. Sometimes when I'm cycling it extends a bit too far and it freaking hurts, I can't tend to pavement run on it as the shocks just causes pain but running on grass, dirt track or treadmill is ok.

currently I think I pulled something in my leg that's causing my feet to hurt, it gets to the point where I can barely stand on it. The pain goes if a rotate my ankle...

I thought a week "holiday" would solve it but I did a lot of walking that week, I had two weeks of light training, so it's not as bad at the moment... and I was ok after doing 10k on the treadmill this saturday.

oh I had some right "Sports" injuries in the past... fell over once and smashed my elbow and could move it for months - self physio storted that out.
got my foot trapped between two players sliding tackles and my ankle was the size of my things...

But there's me jogging everyday, yoga on Thursday with a gym session on Saturday.

I really should try to bulk out but I'm happy with my body shape at the moment with the expection of my belly.
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dude I think you need to see a specialist and get some proper physio!.
my shoulder and neck recurring issue started after falling out of a bouncy castle (I was sitting on a high wall part and landed on my head / shoulder) when I was drunk 20+ years ago
annoyingly I didn't deal with it despite having private health care. maybe it would not have helped but I still wish I had given it a shot as now every 12 months give or take (and it seems to be accelerating) it flares up.
 
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AndyCr15 said:
I'm curious as to what this is based on? Sure, I've lost muscle mass since cycling a lot, but that's more about cutting calories and losing weight all round. Some of that weight will be muscle. Do you have a link to where this is talked about cardio actually reducing muscle mass?

Having turned 50 this year, it does feel like it's been a gradual deterioration over the last 10 years or so.On the one hand, I've never been as aerobically fit as I am now, on the other hand it does feel like my body is falling to pieces. It seems far too easy to tweak a muscle with a simple movement.

The worst thing is, I badly injured my right knee 30 years back, then the left knee 4 years back, but in the last three weeks both have really flared up to the point it's generally painful walking around. I had them scanned yesterday and will see what the specialist wants to do with them tomorrow, but I've never felt so old... hobling around. It worries me if I had to run for some reason now, I couldn't. It also worries me that it might impede on my cycling.
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i had to have a bursal cyst removal over 10 years ago on my right knee.. was a shame as that was the end of what was the fittest 18 months of my life (running 6 miles a minimum of 3 days a week and whilst i wasnt fast it was always under an hr - PB was 45mins .... however the knee thing stopped me running for months and i never really got back into it after that........ unfortuntely i have and likely always will have a stupid appetite and once i go off the rails i REALLY go off the rails (i am obsessive in other things as well, its a poor character trait) and without the running burning the calories to keep the weight off i soon spiralled back to an unhealthy mess..... which peaked at the end of last year with the realisation my boy was heading in my direction.

i am not going to try running again, at least untill i lose more weight but swimming is low impact and is helping...... but racket sports i genuinely enjoy its just a shame my body does not seem to be quite ready for those either yet - but i wont give up on that.
I literally loath the gym or gym type exercises.... so that is a none starter for me.
 
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went swimming this morning. All good no pain at all as I didnt stretch my calf. I took it easy making sure my arms did most of the work only kicking a tiny amount. So relieved about that .
walking is a bit easier today. don't get me wrong I can't put hardly any pressure on it but it'd better than it was. Am confident it will be essentially fine in 3 weeks for my hols. no racket sports before then however which sucks (I can't risk it not being right for holiday abroad)
 
Glaston said:
Now in my mid 60's and realising that walking is really important to keeping everything going.
My Uncle recently died , he walked for roughly an hour a day pretty much all his life. He made it to 100.
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I don't think it matters what exercise you do as long as your do something. my neighbour is also my swimming nemesis (said with a smile and she doesn't even know so it's not like it's a mad competition). but my goal is to by the end of the year be able to match her, the thing is .. she is 84. I am 49!.
she said her mum swam till ... 96 I think she said and she died within months of stopping... so my neighbour swims 5 days a week....
I have already decided when I retire I will be upping my swimming from 3 times a day to 5 and plan to get tennis coaching and golf lessons. (as well as crown green bowls ... but that is more about the fact it's at the pub rather than for fitness ;) )

not expecting to be tiger woods or Nadal but if I can have a knockabout that will do me. (who said retirement was boring :D )

I am fortunate as well that my local leisure centre is stupid good value. a fully loaded gym (which I will never use) tennis courts,.squash, table tennis, badminton, pickelball and a proper sized swimming pool all included for £460 a year. also comes with yoga lessons, and other classes all included.
 
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