Injury report

There is nothing much I can say here, fortunately. After my first 5 months of training as I started to get stronger I started to add more weight, but I was overestimating myself and was not adding proper weight. I was adding more than I can handle, especially on my benchpress.

My ego was on high level that period and I was doing so called ego lifting. But after a few sessions my right shoulder started hurt a little bit. The pain was very small, more to say it was uncomfortable feeling than a pain, and I continued with my ego lifting.

But when the pain started to increase I stopped and asked myself, why am I forcing this so much? Am I in some kind of rush? Am I in a competition? At that point I started to control the intensity, to make more research about training. And from that point I was more aware of my body and my trainings were mindful and safe. Soon the pain was gone.

Year after that, when I started to train handstand I had small problems with my right wrist. Both of my wrists were too stiff, especially my right one which was hurting when I try to do a handstand. But I have fixed it with proper care for my wrists. Daily wrist warmups with low intensity just before my every workout.

Musculus quadratus lumborum - muscle in the lower back area, I had it torn doing deadlifts, but it was not ego lifting. I injured myself with very light weight, the thing was that I haven't learned the proper technique yet and my lower back was very stiff because of my bad flexibility.

Here is picture of the exact muscle strain.

I stopped working out for about 12 days, I only went to the doc and therapist. I was healed completely and continued with my training. From that point I started to take care of my flexibility and mobility.

Later on, I started to train for the planche. I wasn't aware that in order to train safe for it you need to take extra care, and it wasn't like the benchpress, this is one of the most complicated moves.

But I wish I knew this earlier. My approach was slightly aggressive, which I wasn't aware of. After of few weeks of training it I started to feel pain in my right forearm.

Yes, this picture was taken in the moment were the pain was big.

I stopped training for it, but I continued my usual workouts, which was a mistake. The pain got worse and I stopped training completely.

The problem was uneven paraletes and also muscle strength imbalances, my right shoulder was stronger so more pressure on my left arm.

It took me about 1 month to fully recover. But in that rest period I learned a lot about bodyweight skills, how to create a specific approach, safe and with optimal progress.