The new way of working out

Yo all, it's been a long time since my last contribution in ASEAN Hive community. I wanted to take this very opportunity to thank the community, and ofcourse not forgetting the founder @justinparke and his family in supporting the community day in and day out.

The world is changing so fast or should I say, people at the age of 40s felt time passes faster than when they're younger don't you think? I used to be larger than life, thinking of I can get away with anything and everything. Many risks I used to take when I was younger, it's now a huge decision.

I used to do running, but then I spoilt my knees. Fortunately, I can still walk, as long as I do not impact my ankles too much, I could still be very normal. So I get on with upper body development. I did pull ups and I have good results. Within a year, I brought my numbers from 1 jumping pull up, to 8 sets of 5 straight pull ups, until... ...

Well, it was lame excuse, but it did happened. I didn't think I could injures myself by doing pull ups on a wet bar. The rain came, I was still doing my pull ups in the rain with my wet shirts on, damn it that feels so good when others admiring this fat ass can still do pull ups in the rain. Until the rain lubes up enough between my skin and the bar.

It wasn't all that serious. I didn't fall, but I can already feel the burning sensation over my lads, shoulders, and traps over my left upper body. Over the next few days, it continued to increase pain as if my body is yelling at me to quit. And for the record, I'm not that kind of person who willing to take a break for pain.

Apparently, no pain no gain doesn't apply to muscle injury. It's not usual muscle pain anymore, as the sharp pain doesn't really feels like normal workout burning sensation anymore. So painful I can't even turn back arms back to wipe my butt.

2 months down the road, I couldn't even do 1 rep of pull up without screaming in pain. So painful even that 1 rep I will have to skip the eccentric movement half way down. Guess what next, physio therapy. 🤣 Never in my life, would I thought I need this expensive treatment! Never! Now that I'm doing small stretching and healing exercises, slowly gaining back my mobility so I can wipe my butt again 🤣

This is not a complain post, but a short blog to record an incident, and to remind myself. Seriously dude, at this age I've got everything to lose. At this point of time, I'm talking about trying to gain my my left arms mobility, I can't even imagine what if I really break something. Now if you're around my age and thinking of competitive workout, I think you should reassess your current condition, perhaps really pour down some money to hire professionals to help us design a workout package, rather than going the cheap way like me and let ego catches me.

✌️ Peace