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posted by AchillesAnna 12d ago

Things you believed in year one that you do not believe now

Low stakes thread. What did you believe when you first got injured that you have since abandoned? Mine: that rest was treatment. I rested for four months, got weaker, and came back to the same problem with less capacity to handle it. Also that there was a specific thing I had not found yet, and that finding it was the task. There was no thing. There was a program and eighteen months.

Slow is smooth. Smooth is 5k pace eventually.

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rotator_cuff_rickNaperville, IL8 points12d ago
That pain always meant damage. Spent a full year avoiding anything that hurt at all, which is the exact wrong play for a tendon.

Two years of patience beat six months of panic.

tendon_tinkerAustin, TX10 points12d ago
That I could out-research it. 1. Read 40+ papers. 2. Understood mechanisms better than my PT. 3. Logged 0 weeks of consistent loading. Knowledge was just procrastination.

Measure it or it did not happen.

jumpers_knee_jessOmaha, NE8 points12d ago
That being young and fit meant a fast recovery. Being fit is why I kept re-injuring it. I had enough capacity to constantly make it angry again.

Isometrics before ice. Every time.

desk_jockey_danaRaleigh, NC3 points12d ago
Still in year one so live confession: I thought a gadget or setup change would fix it. Three months on this forum and my running total is a keyboard tray, two foam rollers, and a wrist rest I do not even use.

Currently typing with correct posture. Probably.

CoachTerrellAtlanta, GA3 points11d ago
From the coaching side: believing load management just meant reducing load. It mostly means distributing and progressing it. Taking weight off the bar is an emergency brake, but I used it as my default programming for years.

You cannot inject your way out of a bad program.

LabRatLouisBoston, MA2 points11d ago
That better evidence changes behavior. I have posted dozens of study summaries here, but people only try the boring protocol after a peer they respect gets results with it.

Preclinical is not a promise.

Mod_HelenMadison, WI1 points10d ago
Most useful line posted in the lounge this month. People change their minds socially, not bibliographically.

Read the pinned rules. They are short.

NightShiftNurseSacramento, CA5 points9d ago
That I would ever fix my sleep on night shift. 11 years in, I just manage around 5-hour blocks and bad circadian rhythms. Accepting that helped my tendons more than any supplement stack or blackout curtain I tried.

Recovery happens at 3am, if it happens.