Also I take three Advil before any work out that involves my arms.
Advilalberto Mondesi
I was laid up for 2 maybe 3 days after my return to the gym last week
Does that help long term? Or just short term pain management?
It reduces inflammation. So it’s part pain management and part preventative of stuff flaring up.
For me I think the biggest thing that helped was working out 3-4 days a week for 5 years and building up all the connective tissue, stabilizer muscles, etc. My elbows look a lot sturdier now than they did 5 years ago. It takes time to build all that stuff up to where it catches up with the muscles.
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Was just at Casey’s. fuckin 90 degrees at 11:30 or wtf it is
the cashier is a Vietnam Vet and might be bi, who knows.
High school couple in line and I’m just loitering, having grabbed a diet coke at the fountain machine, eye-ballin’ this 1 cat 1st in line who’s wearing a shirt with maybe a rifle round uh that reads, ‘just the tip, i promise.’
he never looked at me. once im benching 2 plates and pocketing my .22.
'what’s that shirt mean? and wear something appropriate for public, next time.
double plus good workout jam this. git it
Black heart scarring darker still!
sup, nightshift? lol might have to get to the gym in a bit, and build my goal out back soon 
Quoting my own post for a followup and question for folks here.
I did indeed have a huge Baker’s cyst in my left knee, which after having drained, am able to fully flex that knee and relieved a decent amount of the pain. Also scans revealed no structural issues other than mild arthritis, which is good.
So the last big issue is what appears to be some (hopefully mild) patellar tendonitis. Any single-leg stuff causes some fairly obvious pain right below the kneecap when my leg is in maybe a 20-30ish degree range of flexion. The pain is only about a 3 but I’d like it to hit 0-1 before I start squatting again.
Anybody here dealt with patellar tendonitis and have experience with resolving it? I know it’s not a quick process, and rest alone is supposed to be bad. Isometric quad exercises before a workout definitely help temporarily relieve the pain, which is a start. I’ve heard good things about heavy slow resistance exercise (specifically quad stuff like leg press or extension with a 3 seconds up/down cadence, doing anything between a 15RM and 6RM), but I’m slightly worried because the arthritis issue makes my knees pretty sensitive to a lot of volume.
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Cant say I have , though I did tweak tf out of my right Achilles years back, squatting
The nautilus squat option might be less painful
lol was at work down on the plaza at a Christian science church, dragging my right leg like Jack in the shining, years back after that injury
They had a bad sump os that had flooded an area
you keep a .22 in your pocket at the gym?!?
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lol no.
it’ mostly abstraction. I don’t have a .22
be best, until lol
but if the righties are rollin up on Obamna, we can be a smarter countermeasure os
gotta stamp it out somehow, and within ourselves
Kurtz’ wisdoms, innit?
need to go to the gym now, once im not so baked lmao
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To take its toll on havin’ a lot of nothing to do.
gotta do a ‘small’ repair at the chinese place later tonight lol the Matriarch told me not to flood the kitchen again. then to the gym
gotta find my overalls 
alternated between nautilus squats and medium weight bench for about 6 reps, diminishing to 4, then to throwing the bar off you with no spotter lol
hope to feel it. got a good sweat going anyway
got some wicked red stretchmarks on my shoulders whoa
workout!
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I think your original post was a reply to mine. My knee pain continues (although it is improving) and remains undiagnosed. We took an x-ray which showed no issues. I went to PT and they ran a bunch of motion tests, and they said it was probably not a meniscus tear, and if it was, it was a minor one and would heal on its own. My doctor sems reluctant to order an MRI, because I am improving. For example I recently went to Ireland and was able to walk 5-10 miles per day with only minor pain. I’m still afraid to do any more squats though, since we don’t know what the original injury is. PT person said “maybe just tweaked something on a squat.” Gee thanks
Re: patellar tendonitis: I had it when I hiked the Appalachian Trail, but that was many years ago when I was fairly young. I kept hiking, and pounded it with Advil, and that sort of kept it at bay, but my knee hurt off and on for 2,000 miles. Continuing to hike may have been a bad idea, but in the end I don’t think I did any permanent damage. However now that I am older, if I got it again, I would definitely limit strenuous exercise, and do some icing, bracing, and quad strengthening.
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