Joint Pain and Powerlifting
About a year ago I got interested in power lifting. I have a contest coming up next month — what can I do to make the joint pain go away ASAP?
Abused joints go with the territory.
I’ll be blunt: Go back to healthy musclebuilding with a less-intense powerlifting contribution to your training scheme. That’s what I’ve done over the years, a fulfilling and complementary and reasonably safe combination.
As long as you power lift you will endanger your body, regularly over-maxing joints, ligaments and tendons in same ways with same exercises without building muscle balance through thoughtful and extended exercise programs. Gets worse; ask any legit powerlifter.
Wrap your joints, keep inflammation at a minimum by icing and taking over-the-counter meds and resting, eliminate exercises that pointedly aggravate tender regions, and develop an intelligent plan to build supportive muscles. Eat right as nutrition is vital to structure strength and repair.
Try Joint Connection — could help a bit. Also Omega 3 fish oil.
Suggestion: Laree is a student of training injury and body pain and is presenting information of recently developing exercise applications for injury repair and prevention and muscle-balancing. Check out her commentary for a long read on corrective exercise, nothing ASAP about it, however.
Go… Godspeed… Dave