A Detailing Excercise Regime

[Brenton]

I think it is partly the way I am sleeping, and partly my work, but my elbows are sore when I wake up in the morning. Well, today I'm sore all over--9 hours of rotary cutting yesterday.

What's a good excercise regime to keep joints from getting too sore, to prevent tendinitis and prevent injury?

 

[JeffM]

Tendonitis is scar tissue building up on the tendon. Weather or not being sore from physical work will lead to tendonitis is a good question.

Ive been pretty physical my whole life. Ive done full contact sports as well as worked construction for a long while now, and no tendonitis.

If your not in tip top shape, then you will get sore. I would suggest paying attention to how tense your muscles are while moving the polisher around. Try to relax your shoulders, and arms.

Watch a good boxer punch, he is darn fast but is loose and relaxed.

To increase the physical endurance of your muscles you have to put them in a situation over and over to do so.

Isolation excersizes like curls and bench presses only go so far for creating functional strength and endurance.

When i was serious about getting in shape i used to push a car around a parking lot for a half hour, sprint up steps, and do rounds and rounds and rounds.

Once you have decent strength i believe in using that to get into decent workable shape.

Having a beach body doesnt mean you are in shape to me. Its a misconception created by bowflex lol.

 

[Brenton]

Well I have a beach body if you mean sand dunes! :lol:

I have gotten tendonitis in the past from playing guitar, making pizzas, and balloon sculpting. I had one week of 40 hours pizza tossing, 4 hours balloon sculpting, and 20 hours in the studio. Then the pain came. 50+ hours at the computer per week will irritate it a little.

Detailing is a different kind of activity and I hardly use my wrists like above (pounding dow, strumming, balloon twisting). I'm more worried about my elbows. I'm not sore in the shoulders or elbows from the polishing, but the relaxing is a good idea. I'll have to be intentional about that.

Mostly I'm sore in the elbows with washing, cleaning and doing hand wax application/removal. That's a bit worrisome since I don't have any pay so no worker's compensation if I get hurt. I was thinking I should stretch before big jobs, but I'm not sure what kind of things I can do to build strength in my arms to prevent injury. I have a bike at the shop which I use a coupla times/week when waiting for customers on slow days. Maybe lifting cans while I ride? I don't know.

 

[JeffM]

Sinse you have tendonitis i dont think increasing your tendon and muscle strength will make it go away.

I have had friends get deep tissue massages for it, but anti inflamatory drugs are more widely used.

I had fallen 12 feet at work and landed at an awkward position slightly tearing a couple ligaments in my knee. After a couple months my knee didnt get any better so i began asking around on sports forums what people do to put their bodies back together.

This was a forum with a few pro level athletes and every one of them said to get prolotherapy done to my knee.

I did, and it is about 95% back to normal. I needed 2 more treatments, but put it off.

Here is a quote from Prolotherapy.com:

It is important to reemphasize that proliferative therapy is NOT a pain treatment-it's a strengthening treatment. Thus, strengthening is the main effect; the reduction of pain is a side effect!

I sent my dad to my doc for his carpel tunnel, and well, he only went 2 times but he says it is about 50% better than it was.

If you meet with a doc and he says he can treat the problem, it will work.

Ins doesnt cover it though, and each treatment for my knee was 150 bucks, but looking back i would have paid 1000.

P.S. One more thing. 6 months ago i thought i was getting or had tendonitis. It is always in the back of my mind being a mason. I was at my chiropractor and mentioned to him that my elbow hurt. He did some range of movement test or something and said it wasnt. Long story short he gave my arm a weird little twist, my elbow cracked, and the pain was gone the next day at work.

May or may not be usefull hahaha.