whats it like if you stop lifting?
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| adamkeep |  | ... | 04-08-2014 @ 11:42 |
 a dork Member 1023, 846 posts | I've dealt with an injury to my SI joint for the last 4 years, just finally got a cortisone shot to relieve the pain. I kept lifting through the issue after it happened and life was a bummer, everything I did hurt! Last November I stopped barbell training, but instead used dumbbells, sandbags, kettlebells, weight vests, all sorts. A lot of my aches and pains went away almost immediately! I've hardly lost weight, went from 105kg to 100kg, but look and feel much better. I don't feel like I've lost a lot of strength, maybe I can't deadlift like I used to, but my back is plenty strong, same goes for other movements/muscles. It was a seriously refreshing change of pace. Just food for thought if you decide to take a different path. | ||
| samue1son | | ... | 04-08-2014 @ 13:28 |
 Member 4416, 1370 posts SQ 210, BP 175, DL 240625.0 kgs @ 122kgs UnEq | Don't know what you lot are going on about anyway. You only need chest and biceps twice a week with dumbbells. Then one session of machine leg press. I stopped lifting in 2007 for about 6 months. My stretchmarks looked worse because my skin was floppy. Also, I felt generally weak for everything. Even my lovelife suffered. | ||
| Lurkio | | ... | 04-08-2014 @ 13:49 |
 as deep as his fat little body will allow Member 265, 4173 posts SQ 222.5, BP 142.5, DL 235600.0 kgs @ 108kgs UnEq | Post Edited: 04.08.2014 @ 13:50 PM by Lurkio I packed lifting in for a couple of years or more, and only recently got back into it (2 months now). Aches and pains associated with lifting disappeared, but I gained a lot of weight (went up to 121 kilos) which brought its own health problems!I have since lost 25 kilos, this has been both fat and muscle as I did f**k all in the mean time. This has meant I've suffered a great strength loss, and I was'nt that strong to start with! Since I've been lifting again, I have noticed a return of all the same old aches and pains! Numbers are going back up again but it's a very slow process. | ||
| aaron_lohan | | ... | 04-08-2014 @ 15:04 |
 Hasn't always been a bench press specialist Member 44, 1907 posts SQ 252.5, BP 220, DL 210682.5 kgs @ 83kgs Eq | Ive never quit, I started in 2004, I cant comtemplate not lifting. | ||
| little_a | | ... | 04-08-2014 @ 15:11 |
 still a devious weightlifting bastard Member 43, 14374 posts | JackRevans said:whats it like if you stop lifting? IT IS LIKE COMING WITH A WOMAN!!! It's no big deal. You just have less in common with people on Sugden and as soon as someone mentions a PB your only response is to 'save this thread' with a picture of a pair of tits. At least we used to before Sugden got all s**t. | ||
| adillon10 | | ... | 04-08-2014 @ 15:19 |
Member 3863, 1275 posts SQ 155, BP 110, DL 182447.0 kgs @ 75kgs UnEq | I kinda become all chicken like, scrawny with very little shape. I also feel when I lift, when you hear like "only 10% of people survive this disease" well I absolutely would survive because I lift, right? | ||
| John | | lol | 04-08-2014 @ 22:05 |
#biggef Member 5263, 3492 posts SQ 260, BP 195, DL 260715.0 kgs @ 130kgs UnEq | Fatpete said:Stop lifting ? I'm not with you. This made me lol | ||
| Billytheold | | ... | 04-08-2014 @ 23:31 |
 Sugdens crazy old person. Member 4936, 7288 posts SQ 270, BP 155, DL 270695.0 kgs @ 100kgs UnEq | little_a said: IT IS LIKE COMING WITH A WOMAN!!! It's no big deal. You just have less in common with people on Sugden and as soon as someone mentions a PB your only response is to 'save this thread' with a picture of a pair of tits. At least we used to before Sugden got all s**t. Get a vasectomy too. Like a dog. Get your nuts cut off its no big deal aye?? Pete will never give up his ship I cannot either captain. The great one will tell you when it's time to end it. I cannot be incomplete! Is it a curse Lemonhead? | ||
| little_a | | ... | 05-08-2014 @ 07:01 |
still a devious weightlifting bastard Member 43, 14374 posts | Being pasionate about anything is a great feeling and certainly lends itself to giving you a sense of self worth and self confidence. Add in the obvious physical and social benefits and lifting really is a great ingredient of a happy existence. However, if you can't contemplate life without it and are completely unable to walk away from it should life dictate such then you really have a problem IMO. Any form of exercise should add to who you are not be who you are. | ||
| Benfrancis1993 | | ... | 05-08-2014 @ 07:21 |
 Cut toe in half = bad day. Member 4359, 3581 posts SQ 270, BP 140, DL 310720.0 kgs @ 137kgs UnEq | JohnGym said:In my opinion Jack, I think you would benefit from a years worth of bodybuilding training. Choosing exercises other than squats and Deadlifts for your legs and back. (Dorian Yates never used Squats) I think most people find powerlifting after graduating from doing some sort of bodybuilding work. The bodybuilding work creates good muscle balance and strengthens ligaments, tendons and muscles without overly stressing the body, which provides a foundation to train heavy without getting injured. You never had this foundation and consequently find yourself injury prone. Just a theory. Do whatever the f**k, you wanna do.  this is the process im entering now | ||
| Wiegieboard | | ... | 06-08-2014 @ 21:39 |
 as crimson as my last victims underclothing..... Member 899, 11330 posts SQ 180, BP 132.5, DL 190502.5 kgs @ 118kgs UnEq | if you have ever done this did your moon face go away? My moon face went then got worse. did you become fatter or less fat? less fat did your injuries go away? I started to feel them more was it difficult to change your lifestyle? very. especially eating. and if you then started again did your strength come back easily? not at all did your moon face come back? beautifully did the same injuries/niggles come back? they got better again | ||
| JackRevans | | ... | 06-08-2014 @ 22:12 |
 'There was also a sausage in my mouth.' Member 2477, 16481 posts SQ 190, BP 130, DL 235555.0 kgs @ 83kgs UnEq | I might start doing bench only | ||
| Wigan | | ... | 07-08-2014 @ 12:03 |
 a cynical old scrote Member 68, 6843 posts SQ 255, BP 132.5, DL 250637.5 kgs @ 110kgs UnEq | Post Edited: 07.08.2014 @ 12:03 PM by Wigan aaron_lohan said:Ive never quit, I started in 2004, I cant comtemplate not lifting. Aaron, you have too quit, you're a bench press specialist, where's the lifting in that? | ||
| Cuddles | | ... | 07-08-2014 @ 12:10 |
 Eat.Cycle.Sleep.Win Member 2, 12511 posts SQ 190, BP 150, DL 280620.0 kgs @ 99kgs UnEq Administrator | did your moon face go away? Yes did you become fatter or less fat? less fat did your injuries go away? no was it difficult to change your lifestyle? very but life gets in the way anyway which makes it easier | ||
| little_a | | ... | 07-08-2014 @ 14:16 |
still a devious weightlifting bastard Member 43, 14374 posts | Wigan said: Aaron, you have too quit, you're a bench press specialist, where's the lifting in that? He's like Cobra. He's a specialist who does the job that no one else wants to do. Lifting is a disease and Aaron's the cure. | ||