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.