So I’m very aware I’m not the oldest person here but I’ve found yo-yoing like any activity has it’s aches and pains. I’ve got a bad back from a ski accident that’s resulted in some rubbing bones when I move too much and my right hand due to the type of work I did when I was young doesn’t like to cooperate at times.
There are times I’ll be standing doing a trick and have to sit down cause my back is being annoying or I’ll be trying to nail a trick or simply loop and my hand will just not work the way I want.
Anyone else experience any of this. I use bengay occasionally for the arthritic back or hand but anyone have an tips for dealing with this. I’ll admit my health hasn’t always been awesome and I’m over weight something I’m working on cause that impacts all aspects of our lives and my back would thank me if I lost 50lbs.
I think the human body is amazing. It adjusts to our needs and use.
This is a double edged sword though.
Conditioning, and being consistent are the key. If we are repatitious, our body will follow suit and transform itself to that requirement.
Extreme Example 1) Cross Fit- those people are insane, but they are in great condition and form.
Extreme Example 2) Couch Potatoe- Their bodys have adjusted to that lifestyle.
Do what you can, when you can. Dont “Push” it. Over time your body will change to that of which you desire.
As for the aches and pains, Ben Gay and Over the counter pain relievers is what I use.
My personal opinion; Every “Body” is different. Not Everybody is different. Each needs to find their own formula of Intake and physicality. If you narrow down those two things, your body will adjust to them.
If you like where your at, keep going. If you dont, adjust one or both of the intake and physicality. Rinse and repeat till you find “Your” formula for where you want to be.
A little background about me. The first hobby I had that I became completely obsessed with was yoga. Very into yoga for many years and went through a teacher training program. That kind of burned me out and the commercialism started to get to me…I was busy with life for a while and let my yoga practice slip. I felt bad about this and was missing yoga but didn’t want yoga exactly but something like it…I decided to try Brazilian jiu jitsu.
This was the second hobby I became completely obsessed with. Trained really hard for almost 3 years…learned and improved…competed…but I kept getting injured and I was tired of having new bjj players not understand that I was coming off an injury and going super hard when I would ask them to play chill and technical…I got re-injured again and decided to not go back after I healed up because I was over the cycle.
I was hobby less besides video games and I realized all the sitting around and inactivity was making me depressed. I missed the physicality of yoga and bjj…then I got a yoyo and all that is solved for me lol. I tell you this, so that you can understand where I’m coming from as I offer advice and decide to do with it as you will. I am not a professional but I have a little experience with stuff like this.
Take the time to feel around your own body through movements and try to find out where exactly you feel problems like muscle tightness. Try to do this when you are feeling good like not when it’s achy from a long yoyo session. If it’s a back injury, try to figure out where those muscles are tight exactly and what stretches activate that zone. For wrist injuries, it’s the same kind of…figure out what direction is tight or stiff and also the rotation. Then do stretches that help work of those problem areas slowly and controlled, whenever you have the time. You can look up stretches to do but I find it’s also helpful to just explore and do the stretch that feels right. Shorter stretching cycles are good for muscles. If the nerve tendons and ligaments are also tight, go for long, deeper and deeper stretches of around 3-5 minutes. Your muscles should literally be shaking as your central nerve system recalibrates (tendons stretch). Be careful to listen to the feedback your body is giving you and push yourself but definitely not too much. I like doing these abyssal stretches when I’m watching TV instead of just sitting, but I should do them more. Basically the more you use your body and diversify your movements, try to get away from the overcompensation we get used to when injured, the more your body will thank you for it. This is much much harder said than done and I should be doing more stretching for my old bjj injury areas as well…but it is achievable to have your body feeling good and you can do it! Good luck!
Also,
while this is true, crossfit also has notoriously high injury rates for people just starting out a fitness journey…I think that doing power lifts for both speed and weight is dangerous unless you are very very experienced and this is a huge part of the crossfit mentality
Edit: I know this was an extreme example but I get scared whenever people bring up CrossFit…
I’ve been bedridden for the last few years. I picked back up yoyoing because it is something I can do sitting on the side of the bed. Or it was anyway. I can only throw for a few minutes a day now. If I go over I can’t throw for a day or two. I’ve started buying mini yo’s to drop weight and minimize arm motion.
To answer your question. CBD can “help” by relaxing the body. I was wanting to add to what @GTDropKnot was saying about stretching the pained areas. I wholeheartedly second this approach. It has helped me with a bad shoulder and several other aches and pains. If you move your body in order to isolate those pains and find the position that pulls on those pains, doing stretches that exaggerate that discomfort can help. I found an even more effective method for this. Again, this can be dangerous as you can go too far and actually cause problems but if you are cautious and listen to your body this can help. Go to the gym, get on the weight machine that will work the area that hurts. Put enough weight on the machine to allow this weight to pull and stretch you when you find the position you need to stretch in. Allow that weight to pull and then relax all the muscles in the pained area allowing the weight alone to stretch the pain. Or in the case of my bad shoulder I go through the motion until I hit the point where my shoulder says “no” and then I just hold the weight right there and make small movements that work through the pain. Never use exercise levels of weight. You only want enough weight to stretch the problem areas. I hope this made sense and feel free to ask for clarification if not. I’ll do my best to explain further. I’d like to add that… if an area has been surgically altered in any way, use extreme caution with this method and also realize… this may not be for you. Listen to your body. This method also does wonders for plain old achy muscles.
No worries I still get aches and pains here. My wrist still gets really painful carpel tunnel especially if I’m typing a bunch without my ergonomic supports like when I’m traveling but still have to work. Also if I loop a bunch it kills my wrist.
My knees especially my right on do not like stairs at all
And last but not least my back is still arthritic with a disk that’s missing 60% ish from surgery to remove the ejected stuff that was herniated. Constant bending in a day rubs the bones and really really hurts.
Overall I have had family mostly my dad who where addicted to painkillers and at some point sought harder drugs and went down a rough path in my life. So I avoid pain killers entirely with the exception of an occasional aleve.
I’ve tried CBD myself and it seems to help the arthritis a bit but my gut doesn’t like it for some reason so it’s not for me. My father in law swears by CBD for his blown knees and it’s a part of his daily medications
Stretching is big. I threw out my back late last year and I finally did physical therapy after just being miserable for a month and the stretching was key. I took it for granted but some morning stretches can really change how I feel in a big way.
yall hit the nail with stretching! my father was a body builder and i swam competitively for usa swimming for several years until i blew out my shoulders and refused reconstructive surgery. stretching is the THE single most important physical activity. it prevents injury, improves flxibility and mobility, improves blood flow. there’s a bunch of reasons to stretch and not one to skip it. i do toe touches and other similar back stretches before and during throwing sessions.
man i love yoga! you’re right about the commercialism and weird places ppl take it but in its purest form its amazing to say the least.
can’t speak to cbd specifically but I’ve been a cannibis user for…well a long time. it’s not so much that it addresses pain specifically but rather it’s relaxation that helps. a lot of pain is the body’s defense mechanism to a stimulus rather than just the stimulus itself. i. e. your body tenses up to protect itself. it helps relax that away. also before bed its the single best sleep aid available. that’s where it comes in big for me. everyone’s mmv due to personal variance but cannibis and its derivitives are absolutely worth exploring in a controlled and informed way. it may not help you at all, and it may change your life
I have wrist pain. It can get pretty painful. And CBD helps. I’m all for it if you want to try it.
Found info on this page about medical cannabis for chronic pain: 84% of those who have tried it say medical cannabis is an effective pain treatment. That’s a pretty high number, I’d say.
I used to have pain related to typing. I tried a bunch of keyboards which variously helped (and I love keyboards, so was happy to do so ) but what eventually resolved all my typing related wrist pain was just good posture. I did one ergonomic evaluation in the workplace almost a decade ago now and in 15 minutes the specialist resolved my wrist pain, where it was immediately better and the longer term effects would resolve over time. I now keep my chair back locked vertical, my knees at 90° angles, and my hands in a neutral position creating mostly a straight line from elbows to fingertips.
I also at some point changed jobs and was issued a standard flat mouse, which caused a particular wrist pain. Once I figured out the source of the problem, it was easy to change out for a vertical mouse and resolve that one.
Man this last week my back has been terrible and the pain has been shooting down my left leg. Really hoping I didn’t do anything to worsen my already messed up l3/l4 disk.
Do you have proof of this? This is the most oft=repeated myth in sports. There is literally no research to support this assertion. Indeed, soccer (football) players have known for years that stretching actually increases injury-probability.
the research on the subject is mixed so i use the tried and true method of a pound of life lived with a dash of common sense. flexibility has done wonders for me and not once has it hurt me
I’ve not done any research onto it, but I was very flexible as a young man and then got to being very stiff as I aged. I have since lost weight and stretched to being quite flexible again. There were aches that were easily flared up in me by turning or moving in just such a way, and some of those pains are completely gone while others are far more tolerable. This is just my experience.
I played for years. It is well known that English players in particular; do not stretch before games for this reason; they believed it causes injuries. It was a constant battle between these players and “sports physiologists”. When I started college - the trainers all started us on a stretching routine. Then I started to get hurt. After I stopped - everything went back to normal. Never had a problem again.
We “limber up” which means slight stretching of the tendons and muscles by natural play-movement getting the blood moving and developing a slight sweat. That warmed you up as much as needed. So, naturally I started to question the trainers. Turns out that the only actual study on stretching and performance was done on gymnastics athletes. Guess what? They were more"flexible" due to stretching. That is it. How that study and conclusions apply to other sports is unclear at best. More importantly, I think you have discovered that there are actually no studies that back up these wide-assertions about the benefits of stretching. My experience over 40 years of playing is that it causes more injury than it prevents.
The real conclusion is probably that stretching helps with some sports where flexibility enhances performance (like dancing and gymnastics). For others, I believe that tendons are like governors on your muscles. Stretching those governors allows the body to over extend itself during exertion and potentially cause injury like strains and sprains.
Picking up yoga and working on flexibility has really improved my comfort during zoning. I can actually practice under leg/behind back tricks for extended periods of time without feeling intensely sore the next day. Behind the wrist stuff where your wrist needs to be angled back at a hard 90 degrees was also intensely uncomfortable before I started focusing on wrist flexibility.
I only started early this year though, so it’s not as if I’m now suddenly hyper flexible, with no limits. But it’s more that I’ve been gradually able to do physically awkward zoning stuff for longer, and with less pain afterwards. So it’s been a long term process, but I’ve been seeing results which make me want to keep sticking with it.
) but what eventually resolved all my typing related wrist pain was just good posture. I did one ergonomic evaluation in the workplace almost a decade ago now and in 15 minutes the specialist resolved my wrist pain, where it was immediately better and the longer term effects would resolve over time. I now keep my chair back locked vertical, my knees at 90° angles, and my hands in a neutral position creating mostly a straight line from elbows to fingertips.