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Injuries are felt at the time?

Discussion in 'General Discussion Subforum' started by Jakehealing, Apr 30, 2025 at 1:08 PM.

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  1. Jakehealing

    Jakehealing New Member

    So dan buglio says that for true injuries you would feel pain at the time of your potential incident. So i was just wanting more reassurance about this. 2 days ago i was doing my home workout and although i was very OCD with my form and technique i felt no pain.

    It wasnt until the next day 24 hours later that i felt a new pain in my rib area. The only thing that makes me think it is a real potential pulled muscle or something is i was setting my shoulder blades back and down after each rep on my rows which is not needed and did not feel natural.

    However all of the next day before the pain came on i was researching row form and watching back workouts to see how they performed it. So basically stressing a little bit on how to do my workouts with good form. i am also going out this weekend which i am apprehensive about. It also came on at night which seems to be the time my brain try’s to trick me when im tired. So i have reasons why this came on in a mindbody sense but even if i didt, if it was a real injury from working out i would of felt it at the time wouldt i?
     
  2. JanAtheCPA

    JanAtheCPA Beloved Grand Eagle

    That's my experience.

    Back when I worked with a personal trainer who challenged me far beyond what I'm now doing on my own, I decided I was quite capable of distinguishing between "challenging" pain/strain, vs "this doesn't feel right" pain/strain. If I decided it was challenging, I kept going and visualized my muscles getting strong. If it didn't feel right, I would tell my trainer and she would make an adjustment and we'd keep going.

    I never had any consequences from either of these situations. If I felt a little pain in the moment, I just said "eh, it'll pass". Which it did.

    In both cases, I refused to allow anxiety to try to take over.

    For context, the period of time I was working with my trainer was from age 60 to 69 (until the pandemic screwed everything up in 2020 and my trainer left the US). So I was probably a lot older than you, and I'd had decades of body awareness and experience trusting my instincts.

    In your case, you need to work on your anxiety. How has your progress been since you discovered TMS knowledge? Did you ever directly address your anxiety? Did you do any program?
     
  3. Baseball65

    Baseball65 Beloved Grand Eagle

    Gosh..I wonder how that new symptom came out of 'nowhere'.
    If you are still readin g stuff like this, you might have misunderstood Sarno...or have you read Sarno?

    The whole idea of 'correct form' is the biggest Old Husband's tale (old wives tale amongst weight lifting men)

    I carry heavy shit all day long every day...and I never worry about form, but I certainly would never Watch or read about it. That's like asking for TMS to come in your front door
     
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  4. Jakehealing

    Jakehealing New Member

    you make a good point! I listened to one of sarnos books at the very beginning of my journey (5 months ago). But i guess sometimes i need somethings spelling out for me. In this case “gym form does not matter!” Or atleast not to the extent i am going to anyway. Before all these years of pain i just use to lift and enjoy but after years of being ingrained with the all the PT spiel im still unlearning this!
     
  5. Jakehealing

    Jakehealing New Member

    Funny thing is i never get pain during my workouts or if i do its very little! I have had bits of pain the next day after my workouts but its in the places i already have pain so this time when it was a new place and a new sensation all together its thrown me off a bit. I have pretty much decided it must be tms but just to be precautious im taking 5-6 days off working out and in that time any sort of twinge i have would of healed! My anxiety is up and down but i let it be like that as it is expected with tms, i try not fight it and just tell myself this feeling is just tms! I do no programs but just listen to dan buglio/mindful gardener/jim prussack and tanner
     
  6. JanAtheCPA

    JanAtheCPA Beloved Grand Eagle

    Yeah, none of this matters. It's all TMS brain BS.
     
  7. feduccini

    feduccini Well known member

    Yes, you probably would feel at the time. Working out is itself a form of injury, you tear tiny muscle fibers so the body regenerates them stronger, what happens when you rest. It is a painful process if you stayed a while without doing exercises.

    Bear in mind working out while stressed or worried might cause injuries as well. My PT says he always asks how his patients were feeling before the injury, and it's very common they weren't on a good day.

    TMS does create new forms of pain when the usual ones aren't scaring you anymore.

    From what you described, it seems to me it was just regular workout pain over sensitized by TMS mechanisms.
     

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