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Why am I getting injured?

L if E. Shit happens. I was rolling out of bed after wrestling the wife and threw my back out. Crazy pain for two weeks.
 
Not sure how long you've been lifting for, what progress and in how long you've made on your current protocol, but I know with me when I grow too quickly before my tendons and ligaments have time to catch up this always happens. As I typed this I decided I'm getting a sports/fascia massage tonight lol.
I think that this is a big risk for tears. The times I suffered injuries was when I was on a cycle and growing fast. Connective tissue just cant keep up with rapid growth of muscle. Another reason for slow and steady growth. When I got older I learned to sometimes hold back the weight I used and just add reps instead. Increase weight slowly week to week. No more than 5 or 10 lbs a week.
 
This started happening to me when I turned 50. First the right shoulder, supraspinatus full thickness tear. Then the left, much more severe/involved tear involving 3 of the 4 rotator cuff tendons. My orthopedic surgeon said based on what he saw when he got in there (arthroscopic surgery) that I had extensive frayed tendon typical from years of abuse/injury. Had both bicep tendons cut and reattached to my humerus (bicep tenodesis) during both surgeries as well. I look at the gym differently now. Leave the ego at home which is hard for this former powerlifter/bodybuilder.
 
Vince Gironda (Iron Guru) had a rule about keeping the weight the same for 3 workouts before increasing it. He was a fan of higher volume, fast paced lifting too. As I've gotten older there is logic behind his methods.
 
Vince Gironda (Iron Guru) had a rule about keeping the weight the same for 3 workouts before increasing it. He was a fan of higher volume, fast paced lifting too. As I've gotten older there is logic behind his methods.

Fast paced as in during the exercise or little time off between sets? I feel like going too fast is what contributed to my torn pec tendon. I was throwing the bar up like it was nothing and then I fucked myself on the comedown.
 
Short rest periods, a la 8 x 8 training for example. These will necessitate lower weights used during training. He called it intensity but now it's considered training density.

After 5 tendon tears and 4 complete ruptures I proactively look for ways to extend my training life.
 
Short rest periods, a la 8 x 8 training for example. These will necessitate lower weights used during training. He called it intensity but now it's considered training density.

After 5 tendon tears and 4 complete ruptures I proactively look for ways to extend my training life.
Some used to say that bodybuilders look for ways to make the weight feel heavier while powerlifters try to make it feel lighter. Some truth to that.
 
I noticed as I got into my 40s I was tearing everything. Decades of AS use weakens the tendons (we all know), tore the quad, tricep, shoulder, pec, to name a few. I never took GH when I competed in the 80s and 90s as it was too expensive. Once I started taking it around 43, I never had the feeling like I was going to tear a tendon or muscle again (2 or 3 iu). I can work out hard and heavy and I feel good at 53.
 
It's impossible to answer. It could be 101 things but no point going through many of them. We can't see how you trained that day plus even if your form was perfect sometimes injuries can just happen. So many things (form, warm ups, temperature, weight, hormones, diet, drugs you are using, dehydration etc) can increase the probability of getting injured so it's just a case of minimizing them all. Weight is irrelevant as I have injured my lower back badly picking up a piece of cardboard. Although 55lbs db's for skull crushers is definitely enough weight. I lift very heavy for tri-ceps and 55lbs db's are decent for good form skull crushers. It's pointless going over things in many ways because you can injure yourself warming up on your 1st set. Although you write it was your 5th set. Was this a working set? Had you moved up in weight slowly over the 5 sets? Was this the first set with 55lbs db's? How many reps can you get with that weight and how many were you on when you had to drop the weight? Was this your max weight set or would you have gone heavier? Have you had bloodwork recently? Why are you using arimidex on 80mg test c? Low estrogen can definitely increase the probability of injuries.


Exactly
Thing that first come to mind:
Dehydrated
Antibiotics
Low estro
Over training (all didn’t kinds of ways)
Over stressed (cort, epineph, norepinephrine, over stimmed)
Supps
Growthing/strength to fast
Exercise timing(meadow just went over this in a podcast)
Forum even after you have been doing exercise same way
Post injuries cause other stress points
Imbalances
Disease
Age
 
Only thing that keeps me from tearing more muscles is stretching alot and active recovery.
 
Some used to say that bodybuilders look for ways to make the weight feel heavier while powerlifters try to make it feel lighter. Some truth to that.
I just had that exact same conversation today at work. I was talking about my time in powerlifting and the switch to bodybuilding, including changes as I've gotten older.
 
I just had that exact same conversation today at work. I was talking about my time in powerlifting and the switch to bodybuilding, including changes as I've gotten older.
Doing things like pre-exhaustion and drop sets work well. Decrease rest time between sets too will make the weight "feel heavier". That will reduce the stress on the tendons while still working the muscles really hard. Lifting fairly strict and not using momentum to move the weight, slow down the movement.
 
I’ll say this, when I was younger I drink very little water and never had any issues.

When I ran a juicy cycle of Test, EQ, and Dbol and got insanely strong very fast, I was hydrated and doing everything right and I could feel my elbow getting tennis elbow. My shoulders would feel like they were going to tear....

Have you noticed a great strength increase lately? I feel like if it
Comes too sudden, there’s some instances you can’t control that achey or stretchey almost injured feeling...

be careful bro.

light weights and high reps. Change AI’s or drop for a bit.
 
Maybe you need to warm up better and stretch more. The only time my muscles get strained is when I jump to heavy weight to quickly
 
Maybe you need to warm up better and stretch more. The only time my muscles get strained is when I jump to heavy weight to quickly
That certainly is a factor IMO. Warming up is important as well as some stretching before lifting. I also think you have to slowly increase the max weight you lift in the gym, from week to week. Doing a squat that is an all time high by 45 lbs would be a bad idea.

The times I strained muscles the most it happened early in the morning when I wasn't a accustomed to lifting. I think your routine shouldn't be changed suddenly. Apparently my body just wasn't prepared for that stress. At the time I always started lifting at around 8 pm.
 
Last topic I posted was on a slight pec tear. I'm still waiting to see a specialist. First time back in the gym today and hitting arms. 5th set in and doing DB skull crushers I feel the same popping/rope strand giving away feeling in my left tricep and I drop the weight. 55lb dumbbells, nothing outrageous. Tricep is tender but can't tell if it's serious or not. I don't see anything. I am now on 80mg Cyp and .5mg Anastrozole EOD. What is going on with my muscles? Am I not drinking enough?I've heard AI's can do this....? It's like I can't push myself without this happening.


100% Anastrazole.


Overkill on 80 mg, you should need none Most men feel best 42-70 pg/mL.


Do you know your Estradiol level?
 
100% Anastrazole.


Overkill on 80 mg, you should need none Most men feel best 42-70 pg/mL.


Do you know your Estradiol level?
I actually mistyped the above and corrected it in a later post. I am on 80mg 2x a wk. Not sure of estradiol, but whenever I go lower than .5 EOD I start feeling that burning sensation in my nipples I am too familiar with. When I have gotten tested feeling the same dose my E2 has been anywhere from 36-72.
 
I actually mistyped the above and corrected it in a later post. I am on 80mg 2x a wk. Not sure of estradiol, but whenever I go lower than .5 EOD I start feeling that burning sensation in my nipples I am too familiar with. When I have gotten tested feeling the same dose my E2 has been anywhere from 36-72.

I understand that you FEEL your nips and you want to cut that feeling...but use a SERM then and skip the AI.
You get all the benefit of fighting gyno without the lowering of your E2.

Like others have said, its probably a bad mix of a lot of different factors. Hydration, AI, not warming up as much, not deloading in a while. I did the same thing to my hamstring 2 weeks ago. Out of nowhere on Leg Press it popped. I felt fine and i was completely dumbfounded as how the fuck that could've happened to me 3 exercises in. But shit happens and now you'll just make some changes and be even safer.
 

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