Heya guys,
Have just started lifting fairly heavy and have noticed bad tendon pain. I take vit's and supps for joints but they have'nt worked for my tendons....any recomendations wouls be greatly appreciatted.
I only have been using Glucosamine.
Glucosamine by itself doesn’t do much for me, but it works much better with chondroitin. I’ve done both glucosamine/chondroitin and Cissus, I can’t say one works better than the other. I prefer g/c because that’s what my doctor recommends and seems to work for me.
Things that have worked for me .
For prevention:
1) Save the heavy lifts for the power movements (bench, squat, leg press, deads, maybe shoulder presses).
2) Warm up with some lite sets, they don’t need to be to failure.
3) Try not to over train and try to keep the heavy lifts to around 5-6 reps. 1 and 2’s generally do nothing for development.
4) For everything else, keep the reps 8-12, make the 12 rep set the first set of any exercise.
5) Focus and pay attention to your movements, when any sharp pain starts, stop ASAP.
6) Use fish oil and glucosamine/chondroitin. If you prefer, do Cissus instead of g/c.
Now that you have it:
1) Do not work thru the tendonitis pain, it will only get worse.
2) Work around it, do other movements and/or keep the reps high, at least 10.
3) Do not take any pain killers before your workout, you will only mask the pain and risk aggravating the injury.
4) Be patient, tendonitis takes time, about 6 weeks, to heal.
5) I’m not a believer in NSAIDs except as a last resort.
