Yeah brother same same tight as shit traps that always seem to be tense, only thing that helps is magnesium, a joint and getting one of my lady friends to get her thumbs deep in (my physio too, but I need a true deep tissue massage and to stretch out more). There are a lot of minor to most, major to me, posutre issues and muscle imbalances that I plan on addressing. 500mg of Test is going really well BTW, dropping it down to 400mg though to be honest. I seem to be growing real well on this test blast, its filled me out, nipples are a little sore and holding some water for sure but not a drastic amount but I am 5kg up in the 3-4 weeks I have been blasting it... which again isn't straight mass. And to think I wanted more. Just goes to show, more is less!!
I am not sold on Chiros, I hear too many mixed opinions!! Whats your view big dog on Chiro vs Pysio. IMO it's a heated topic, and I think one will work better depending on your issues. But hey, I get a different opinion from each different bloke. How did they alleviate your tight traps? Was it purely deep tissue massage on the nots?
To make it short the issues I have is, my chest is very tight, which in turn pulls my delts forward and IMO is causing my traps to pull/activate. Hammys are tighter than a nuns pussy. Glutes are also tight and I lack almost complete muscle activation in my glutes. Quads are tight, but nothing like hammys. Gives me dramas pinning qauds though as when I pin them half the time the muscle spasms and releases (like dry needling, but deep in there lol) and hurts but I feel like the muscle spasms, releases the tesniosn and cramps up again at times. Core is very weak. All over I have a bunch of issues that I feel just feed each other and exxacerbates other problems. Strecthing and flexibility along with some size and solid core work this year is my goal. Chin ups too. Would love to hear your stretching routine, or daily routine and tips on how you keep flexible and what you do to warm up, before after sessions, what you do to warm up each muscle,c ore work etc. Sorry to break em bro, but this is my weak point and value your advice and experience.
Must say, Ben Pakulski is really a good influence, love that he involves himself in the science of it which I love. Been watching few more of his videos in my spare time lately. Good stuff./
And sorry to derail the thread brother!! Just love to squeeze the fuck outta that knowledge bank of yours and soak it up, can never know enough in this game. Forever learning. Once you loose that ego (believe it or not happened after I started juicing where you typically see people have inflated egos, thankgod I don't get the king dick asshole effect from test anymore and feel its completely under control), you start getting places in this lifestyle and people start to associate you with who you are, not that you are a roid monkey thas does nothing but juice up and is a menance to society (as people do, wrongly lol).
No derailment at all man, this thread is for learning. This is a good topic actually because it does get discussed much. I actually, from what youre describing, had pretty well the exact same issues for a LONG time and its only recently that these issues have gone away.
As far as physio vs. chiro, Im not sure which is better, but I do know they are different. I personally have never gone to see a physiotherapist. But, I do see a chiropractor on a regular basis. The thing about a chiro is they are there to sorely work on the spinal cord.....get it realigned, put vertebrae back into place, which, in turn can realign shoulders, hips and neck. A lot of guys could be having shoulder or hip pain and thing 'oh, I have a bad shoulder or hip' when in reality it could be that the spinal cord is out of alignment. If this is the case, you could have disks rubbing together, which will cause them to degenerate over time if left untreated which can cause issues. The spinal cord also has MANY nerves that run through it and even the slightest tweak of it can cause one or more of these nerves to get pinched, another thing you don't want. One last thing, with the amount of strain we put on our bodies and tense muscles you can almost bet that the spinal cord is being pulled in a way you do not want it to be.
On top of that, a REAL deep tissue massage is worth fuckin GOLD man. You need to release tension in the muscle and break up scar tissue that has been built up. What happens when you don't do this is what you have going on, tight chest pulling shoulders forward, hammies pulling hips out of alignment etc etc. Another thing that can happen is when a muscle is damaged and TOO TIGHT and FILLED WITH SCAR TISSUE bloodflow in and out of that muscle stops and what actually happens is that muscle create its own flow of blood inside that muscle. In turn , that muscle cannot release toxins that are inside of is and the healing process take WAY longer than it should. Not to mention its going to cause you pain and discomfort. So deep tissue massage is key, also, not overtraining is key as well to avoid being put in this situation to begin with.
Another AWESOME thing to have done, and I do this as well from time to time, is something called Japanese hot cup therapy. What is it, in short is these little cups that they light fire under and get hot air in them then they stick them to whatever muscle group you want and they let them sit there then move them around and so on and what that actually does is pull stale blood and toxins out of tense hard, basically unhealthy muscles, and allows them to open up and receive new blood. I can tell you first hand that the pressure and tension that is released form this is incredible bro. Not every RMT offers this though but you will usually see it offered at wellness spas.
And last but not least, I THINK, is stretching. I stretch every single day, multiple times, its key. I don't get wild and crazy with it but I spend about 15 mins twice a day stretching. I focus a lot on legs and lower back, I just basically do the stretches we were taught in gym class in grade school. You know, touch your toes then sit with one leg out and grab around your foot, then ill put my foot up on something high and grab my foot, then Ill do some quad stretches, grabbing my foot behind my back then sitting down is a deep squat position and leaning back, Ill move into some stretches for calfs. Then, ill grab onto something around the house and stretch my lats out, starting with two hands and then doing single hand. Ill stretch my pecs and bis out at the same time by just putting my palm on a cupboard or something a twist away from it. Il put my tricep on a door frame and bring my hand behind my head to stretch the tricep and delt.
Its pretty hard to explain how to do this or that stretch in writing, but shit, google stretches and just do whatever you see and find out what works best and then try to get deeper in the stretch each time you do it. I can actually bend over to touch my toes now and almost get my head right between my legs man, lol. Remember though to hold each stretch for 30 seconds.
As far as stretching and working out, I NEVER stretch before or during EVER this can cause injury and is not be beneficial to what your trying to achieve in the gym. Stretching is meant t relax the muscle. Do you want to be stretching during a workout and relaxing he muscle you are training? Absolutely NOT, that in counter productive, the only time a stretch is good is during a set on the eccentric part of the movement or a loaded stretch at the end of a set. You see guys stretching constantly between every set at the gym, dont do that. Stretching after is great, is opens up that muscle, allows bloodflow into it and in turn increased nutrients into the muscle for repair.
Hopefully hit all the points, but if I didn't let me know or of course any more question I can share my take on!!!
