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I have been training for years. I did Taekwondo from age 6-14, played football for a year, did "backyard" grappling from 12-19, BJJ from 19-22 on and off, and have been doing boxing training and olympic lifting for the past few years. Every time I start to get some traction, I get injured. I am currently dealing with an ongoing shoulder problem, and reoccurring plantar fasciitis, which has dominoed into knee pain because I walk on the outside of my left foot to compensate. My neck hurts all the time from the shoulder being tight.
I stopped doing BJJ because it would flair up injuries. I started progressing fast in strength training until I damaged my SI joint and tailbone from deadlifting with not the best form. I moved over to olympic lifting as the weights were smaller and I enjoyed it more. Now anytime I do overhead work I get shoulder pain post workout. I took a break from weights because of the pandemic and have been doing a lot of cycling and bodyweight exercises. The cycling has been going well, but its causing my tailbone to get bruised. Bodyweight stuff has been good, I can probably do at least a dozen pull up all the way down, but my shoulder will be in pain for a week plus. Anytime I add muscle mass, I end up with less mobility and more pain. I can do my workouts pain free most of the time, but by the end of the workout, I am in pain.
The only thing that helps is stretching, massage, and not working out unfortunately. Everytime I take time off to let things heal, they tend to come back very quickly and its just this cycle of damaging myself and healing.
I dont have money to get surgery or to even get an MRI, so I am stuck with minimizing risk. Just typing this hurts my neck and shoulder.
I dont want to give up, but I also dont want to live a life of perpetual pain and injury.
I stopped doing BJJ because it would flair up injuries. I started progressing fast in strength training until I damaged my SI joint and tailbone from deadlifting with not the best form. I moved over to olympic lifting as the weights were smaller and I enjoyed it more. Now anytime I do overhead work I get shoulder pain post workout. I took a break from weights because of the pandemic and have been doing a lot of cycling and bodyweight exercises. The cycling has been going well, but its causing my tailbone to get bruised. Bodyweight stuff has been good, I can probably do at least a dozen pull up all the way down, but my shoulder will be in pain for a week plus. Anytime I add muscle mass, I end up with less mobility and more pain. I can do my workouts pain free most of the time, but by the end of the workout, I am in pain.
The only thing that helps is stretching, massage, and not working out unfortunately. Everytime I take time off to let things heal, they tend to come back very quickly and its just this cycle of damaging myself and healing.
I dont have money to get surgery or to even get an MRI, so I am stuck with minimizing risk. Just typing this hurts my neck and shoulder.
I dont want to give up, but I also dont want to live a life of perpetual pain and injury.