What do you do when you get soreness from throwing? I don’t even throw that much, maybe it could be an hour a day and yet my throw arm side will always get sore. Im relatively young and do calisthenics exercises so I just don’t get why I am always so sore from throwing. I see some pros saying they practice 7 hours a day. Does your body just slowly adapt to yoyoing because of all the small muscles it uses?
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How long have you been playing? What part of the body hurts or gets sore?
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Ibuprofen and/ or Tylenol. Personally I take 2 of both and I’m feeling good to go
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Makes sense that that would hurt then, it’s the breakaway muscle lol
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Haha. I’m an engineer, thought that was a typo.
Maybe some push ups would help. Try not to throw super hard!
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Obviously, since none of us are the same person… Everybody can potentially have a different reaction to throwing a yo-yo around. Some people get sore necks some people get sore wrists some people get sore shoulders. Some people smack themselves in the head with the yo-yo so then they have a sore head combined with whatever else is sore, etc..
Just like everybody that runs is not gonna end up with knee and ankle problems.
Let’s say the subject we’re discussing is in middle school. 13 14 years old whatever?
And the person says you know I have a gym class and I do push-ups and I do jumping jacks and I do chin ups and I run around the track. I do all kinds of stuff and I don’t really get so sore what goes?
A lot of the general calisthenics that people do are not fast movements. They’re not jerky movements. They’re not done with any deliberate power anymore than to do whatever the exercise is.
Throwing yo-yos is different. Especially when you’re a fairly new player… Even a year could be a fairly new player…
Everybody’s gonna develop their own distinct throw down… Whether they’re throwing to the front or they’re throwing to the side it’s gonna be their individual footprint/fingerprint/of a throw. Some people are gonna have a long, smooth casual throw. Some people are gonna have a short half energy throw. And some people are gonna throw a breakaway like they’re trying to snap the string.
If you have the patience to learn yo-yo tricks then you have to start off the right way. Realize that throwing a breakaway is a yo-yo trick in itself. And just the way you want to practice and execute every trick that you’re trying to learn properly, you also want to execute your throwdown properly.
You need to develop a powerful but smooth stroke as you throw the yo-yo down. You don’t have to throw fast you just have to throw with authority.
If you develop a bad habit of having a powerful but jerky throw, you’re asking for nothing but trouble.
The body can handle some push-ups and some pull-ups and some jumping jacks and whatever else, etc. because you’re usually doing them at a moderate pace with just enough power to complete each rep
Sometimes when people are practicing their yo-yo tricks, they are so compelled to get the longest spin possible, that as they throw down, they go temporarily insane and try to bust out some kind of superman breakaway so that their yo-yo will spin for eight hours, lol
Fast jerky movements will strain your shoulder. Not necessarily evenly. It’ll just make something sore. Your body will pick out whatever it feels like picking out to kind of give you a hint that you’re doing something wrong. Since your body can’t talk to you, it can get sore to let you know.
What I’m bringing to the OP’s attention does not necessarily have any basis in fact in relation to his personal individual predicament or situation so to speak.
I would suggest that anybody and everybody that practices for an hour here and there and experiences some pain in the shoulder area elbow area, wrist area… Somewhere between your earlobes and your belly button… You need to review your throw down. Usually the attempted high-powered jerky, throw downs that can post something or more often than related to shorter strings. A longer string by nature seems to just naturally cause you to take a more sweeping stroke as you build moment to let the yo-yo go.
Shorter strings, make it easier to just power up and crank out a breakaway.
Also practice your range of motion. When you throw a break away, practice for a few minutes without a string on your finger. Like a mime. Trying to get around the wall that’s not there.
Practice your throwing movement just like a tennis player might swing the racket around in a controlled manner to warm his shoulders up before he starts to match and has to really start smacking the ball around.
When you start an hour practice session, Warm up a little bit just like you would at the beginning of a gym class or a basketball game. Do a little stretching. Wave your arms around the circles.
Remember the bottom line. Unless you have some kind of medical situation going on getting sore after you do something it’s just nature‘s way of telling you to review what you’re doing and how you’re doing.
Have you ever noticed if you’ve ever watched a boxing match… That when he announcer is talking about who’s in the corner blah blah blah… The two boxers are usually just kind of punching out the air moving around at the waist bobbing and weaving, etc. They get warmed up first period and then when the bell rings they beat the tar out of each other.
Yo-yo is pretty much diametrically opposite of boxing. In boxing you’re fighting an opponent. It’s you against somebody else.
When throwing yo-yos, you need to become one with the yo-yo. The yo-yo flows at the end of the string. But you are the flow master. You create the flow.
Have you ever noticed some videos they look real jerky the player almost looks like a robot making mechanical moves.
And then when you watch the real hard-core guys, you see no jerky movements.
One other thing. I know most people aren’t gonna do this, but it would actually help.
Before you start your yo-yo practice, do some push-ups. You don’t have to do off the floor. Just face a wall step a couple feet back from the wall put your hands on the wall and do some stand-up push-ups. They don’t have to be fast and you don’t have to do 50. Just do a couple sets of six or eight and then leave your arms around. That will get the blood and the fluid flowing up around your shoulders, and in that area, where the movement is going to be occurring in your upper body.
I tried not to get to scientific, but I study kinesiology and a lot of related information about movement.
Good luck. You’ll figure it out.
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Idk I just play anyways and what ever soreness I do have now is from non yoyo things (mostly playing tug w my dog bc shes big and goes hard). I also throw super hard and main 80g yoyos so like yah you get used to it and the body will adapt. I am not a doctor though like idk don’t go and hurt yourself or something. Prolly like drink more water and eat healthy and stuff and you wont be sore as much
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Instructions unclear. Got addicted to painkillers.
Also Tylenol is just a brand of acetaminophen.
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Two of both is a fair bit but also one of each is essentially excedrin minus the caffeine. So drink a cup of coffee with it if you got a migraine lol
Wow thank you for the thought out answer. Warming up and practicing the actual breakaway movement seems like the best approach 
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I don’t get pain from YoYo much anymore except if I’m picking up a super heavy YoYo and playing it a bunch like 100g
I’ll occasionally flare up my carpal tunnel especially with looping but that’s usually due to bad support while typing during my day job that’s then exacerbated by the yo-yoing
Generally most of my soreness is lack of stretching before activity in general and or age starting to take its toll. (My spine is mangled from previous injury) generally I stay away from pain killers myself. I can’t take nsids for various reasons and acetaminophen isn’t very effective and I don’t like how I feel on anything stronger than that if prescribed.
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thats kinda like saying you don’t know why your arms hurt when you go to the gym since you only go once in a while. it’s because you aren’t doing it more that it gets sore. this is of course barring it being joint related or some other underlying condition. just like lifting weights or running, do it more and consistently and the pain and soreness will lessen and won’t last as long
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This has got to be one of the most reposted videos on here…
… but, if your shoulder/arm is hurting from throwing breakaways, you need to work on your technique. This video should help.
The trick is to whip the yoyo like a ball-and-chain instead of power-throwing it to the side. Your arm will thank you.
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