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I’ve graduated to “late thirties” now and I’ve picked up so many small injuries that won’t go away. Twisted my ankle 2 years back, still hurts but doesn’t prevent me from doing anything. Fell while skiing a year back and my shoulder hurts whenever I do anything.
Any tips on how to:
- Prevent further injuries
- Heal the ones I got I try to warm up, stretch, use hot packs etc but maybe I missing something basic.
Obviously nobody can diagnose injuries based on Lemmy comments. My advice is to find a good physical therapist. I found one who specializes in my sport (powerlifting) and he fixed a nagging injury I’d had for years.
Hot packs might help discomfort but they won’t help heal anything. Warming up is certainly important. Stretching could be important but the hard part is figuring out what you specifically need to stretch, which is where a physical therapist can help.
I’m running, doing core and arm workouts and eating well, and losing weight - but I can’t seem to shift the belly fat.
Is it just a case of “keep going” and it’ll go?
(I’ve been working out / watching calories for about 2 months and dropped 4 kg, and gone from a 34 to a tight 32 on my pants (trousers). It’s just the damn spare tire.)
I’m running, doing core and arm workouts and eating well, and losing weight - but I can’t seem to shift the belly fat.
Just to be unambiguous, the only thing really affecting your amount of belly fat is the amount of fat you lose. You can’t spot reduce fat by doing core workouts. It’s good for general health and fitness to work out, but training abs won’t decrease belly fat at all - you need the calorie deficit for that (which you apparently do have, so that’s good, and you should work out to make sure you don’t lose 80% muscle weight but mostly fat).
Where you lose fat just depends on genetics. For me belly fat is some of the last fat to go when losing weight and some of the first to come back when gaining - results really tend to come in at the end of a cut.
dropped 4 kg, and gone from a 34 to a tight 32 on my pants (trousers)
Sounds like there’s progress. If you want more, continue.
Timely thread for a question I have!
So I did barbell squats today for the first time. Immediately afterwards, I had some pain in the inner arches of my feet. Is this indicative of a problem with my form or my shoes?
I was wearing running shoes today but I’m planning to try it barefooted during my next workout.
Running shoes can definitely be the problem. It’s a layer of squishy-ness between you and the ground, which counteracts the taut-ness your body will get from good form. There are tons of options for shoes that have solid, non-squishy soles, but I prefer to just go barefoot.
Bit late but I wanted to update, it was definitely the shoes. Barefoot let me go deeper with no pain :) thanks again!
