@@aduantas The problem that not all physiotherapists know what they are talking about. And they are not cheap. I choose callisthenics because I am on a tight budget and I can't go test 5 or more physios until I find the right one. I went to see two but their suggested exercises were just ridiculous.. something a grandma would do in her rehab. Now I found one good after years of having clicking shoulder and planing to see it after this madness with the virus is over.
I once went to the doctor with a pain in my back and reduced mobility in my left leg. He took my leg by the foot when I was laying on my back and reefed my leg up to 90*, about 75* beyond the point of pain but he did it so fast and without warning that by the time I screamed "STOP" the damage was already done. That injury still plagues me well over a year later. I did go to physiotherapy, got an MRI, seen chiropractor, even chinese doctors. Still dealing with this injury which I believe was aggravated greatly by my visit to the doctor. He was old and probably hasn't been educated since the 70's. Don't always trust doctors.
@@TheObuolmusis Think all the time he wasted going in circles. In seven years you can save enough money to pay 1 consult with the best in the best and you are set to go.
Enjoyed your vid! I love the "troubleshooting" aspect of calisthenics. I myself begun calisthenics about 8 years ago *because* of serious shoulders' and knees' injuries, as a self prescribed therapy actually. And in four years I healed all pains and motion range issues by intelligent training regime. After 6 years or so of training I did my first muscle-up. And I'm 45 yo :P
Great story, thanks! Gives me hope, I approach it similarly, and I'm even older. I use calisthenics to correct my body and movement patterns, and balance out the one-sidedness of climbing. My pull ups are very non-explosive right now, there's some way to go until muscle up :)
This is an awesome message. Thank you for telling your story. I’m currently struggling with resuming calisthenics after both bone open forearm fracture. It is so challenging to train my mind and work on imbalance while also taking it slow. I’m now five months into rehab and exercise. Just started working building handstands again and somehow started experiencing sharp pangs inside my scapula. I am not taking more rest, working on stabilising it and no advance moves. The physical pain also hurts mentally when it tells that maybe I won’t be ever able to get back there. I can only try to avoid negativity and work everyday towards it cheerfully enjoying the journey and without a worry of achieving anything. I understand your situation but I would like to say you achieved a lot my friend. Work towards it but don’t stress yourself. You actually did achieve a lot. Be thankful and pay your back. How much fame and success you get is not in your hands. Keep doing what is in your control. I know you know this but just saying what I felt. And yeah I too want to see a physio. Let me know if you know someone I can contact online.
Good job dude. My dad's a physical therapist and used to work with Nigeria's national soccer team so I always have someone to check on my injuries and stuff
Good job man. You stayed on your pursuit and figured out the problem. Now it seems you're back on track. Thanks for coming out and sharing your experience.
Great message Dave. Visit your physio if you train,or if you have pain,or are unsure about something in your body. From a simple tennis albow to much more complex situations,like yours,we all can benefit from a visit to the doctor. Even if we have some body awareness,we need someone else to evaluate the way we do things with our body. Hope you are going better and better,and start training calisthenics again. That's what made me sub to you in the first place!
Having pain in your knee and accepting it was easier than hearing bad news from the doctor. You didn't want to risk getting a diagnosis because you didn't want to lose your passion. Self deception. It's like being in love, when a person accepts all unhealthy signs in his/hers partner beacause addressing the issues might lead to losing the person he/she loves. You love calisthenics, so please don't give up doing it. Telling your story publicly makes you such a great example. I guess this is the moment when you become a great athlete, having this great courage and admitting that you're just a human being, like we are all ❤ Blessings and love 🔥🤗
Much love for you and your fitness journey, career whatsoever. I hope you are going to be able to train again and reach your goals. Your content and your way of putting it here is awesome and always very enjoyable. Thanks for that!
That's great that you're able to admit your mistakes/weaknesses in front of us (even such a huge ones), that' requires some courage. Everybody finds obstacles along the way in their journey, your's were pretty substencial it seems, I wish you all the best and hope that you'll end up getting on the right path and develop, as it would be such a loss for the calisthenics community to not have you as part of it. Trzymaj się i byle do przodu :)
I also have a click sound in my knee when i do squats, Ill check it out with my doctor when this pandemia is over. Btw thanks for your honesty and yes ill be here when you feel ready to come back. CHEERS :-)
Doesn’t need to be anything to worry about I guess as long as you don’t feel any pain it could be possible that it’s only a tendon I think - you can get the same thing when flexing your biceps hard relax it and straighten the arm without (I guess) the muscle being completely non-contracted so the tendon is sliding above your bone Sounds weird and unhealthy but I think it shouldn’t be much of a problem still it’s a good idea to go to the doctor Would be nice to hear if I’m right and it’s nothing to worry about
@@soulwantscookies im no doctor so don't take my word for it but if there's no pain or discomfort then it should be fine. Plenty of people have that without any issues, my elbow used to click when I bent it and I've never had any issues or pain there.
You are the best man, keep up the great work.... u are the only one that really inspire me to train calisthenics within a way of life. I hope u recover soon
Amazing video. It's just what I needed to hear! Fixing movement patterns are really really hard, especially if you were doing the movement wrong for a long time. I have MAD respect for you!! Fixing your "brain" is a hard task and your an inspiration for me to do so! Tanks for amazing video, we appreciate that a lot!
Wow I love this video,I'm currently dealing with a wrist injury. Its preventing me from progressing like I want and its totally frustrating. I injured it a couple months into my journey,and it has been a problem ever since. Keep going though ,your an inspiration I've been watching you for a while now and you've always kept it really honest. 💪🏿💪🏿Keep up with the great content everyone learns from them.
I feel you bro, I feel you... My journey looked pretty much the exact same way, and i kept blaming this and that for my lack of progress, when in reality, my body was so out of balance, it was forcing me to stop. Luckily, i prevented a really bad injury in my lower back and right knee that were just waiting to happen. Really good video!
Thanks for your honesty, indeed we must assess our movements patterns frequently as you said the changes are small and progressive leading to a major breakdown in form that will for sure lead to injury. I relate with this because i am or used to be a ultra runner and a very efficient runner but a small injury in my knee roughly in the same area as yours has put me out of training for a while. Hope you get completely better and restart your path.
Really good and informative video, I wonder how many people have issues with their bodies and just suck it up. Very impressive how you figured it out on your own. I had a similar story in many areas, shoulders, knees, left wrist and lower back... basically all of my body, balanced exercise has been of tremendous help and like you I didn't go to physiotherapists (basically for lack of trust) and spent about 20 years accepting the fact that my body was frail and broken. After a few years doing exercises I have improved a lot, still have issues but I think improvements won't stop here.
Thanks for talking about this! I can relate TOTALLY. I've been putting so much honest and consistent efforts in my handstand for so many years now and I still don't feel I have the control I should have on it yet... Like you, I begin to think it's a postural problem. We don't hear enough about how "little" injuries can have such long lasting impacts on the way we train. Thanks again.
I've been there friend. Focus on shoulder mobility. Thoracic extensión and core engagement. Once i did that i can finally see some results for my handstand.
I really appreciate how honest you are showing your vulnerabilities and reflecting on yourself. This is the sign of true growth not the massive egos that i see in a large amount of fitness youtubers.
Stayed for the last 2 years with almost 0 content and will stay a subscriber to your channel. Talk about mental problems hindering progress, I was close to giving up too. But it's going great since I track my nutrition daily and quit calisthenics but started lifting seriously. Keep going, I'll wait here for you mate!
I've been ignoring my neck pain for 4 years now and this video has been the wake up call for me. Thanks a lot pal. Injuries don't get talked about in the fitness world so people stay ignorant of what could go wrong. Admitting a mistake like that wasn't easy and I'm sure you've helped more people with this video than any other tutorial video.
Thank you for sharing! I can commiserate with you! I have had a broken toe on both feet and have been so reluctant to work on increasing my range of motion in my toe flexion. This has affected my ankles and tightened my calves and made it hard to go up and down the stairs. Getting over the mental block that my toes were broken and I can flex them and it’s ok to stretch them again has been the hardest part!
I feel you. Also got knee pain when doing squats and similar + elbow pain and that's the reason i couldn't do push ups or similar for a year. Bought some elbow sleeves recently and they really help me getting back my push up confidence. Lets hope for the best. Thanks for your honest words. Take your time :)
Thank you for sharing this. It's like an alarm to me. I also had my knee injured 2 years ago and when i perform a set of squat, the muscle groups im using just felt kinda weird. Next time , I will make sure my performing is correct and focus on my imbalance muscle too. I hope you rehab well.
Crazy that this video came up to me today, because that I have the same problem with the knee and now, after a month after the injury ( also a pistol squat ), when I sleep and at some point I am going to bend my knee I wake up because of the pain I felt when it all happened even tho it doesn't hurt anymore. Thank you for making things clear to me🙏
Daang, I've been doing my pistol squads with shitty technique, I was forcing my left leg to do it even though it isn't strong enough compared to the right one. I'll definitely go back to the progression with a stick and acquire a better form and technique on that leg before trying again... Thanks for the vid
Bro, we are with you. You have no idea how many people you've influenced over these years all over the world. That's so great you've discovered your errors and now you are sharing your eperience publicly. Godspeed and see you soon.
Awesome video, really interesting and inspiring to see how you developed the problem, it's impact on all the sides of your life and how you finally overcame it :D This is really helpful, I actually got that clicking feeling on my left leg, pretty much the same way you describe it and I'll let it rest some more but if the problem persist I will see a physiotherapist like you suggested ^^ Also thanks for pointing out that an imbalance in your lower body can affect the upper side too, it actually gives me some more motivation to train the lower body other than the satisfaction of improving yourself x)
Thank you for this video man, I've a similar story which I'm going through right now and thought it'd be good to share. So my leg weakness came October 2019, after i was taking heavy impact in parkour and months of constantly overtraining, and after one specific jump which i had done maybe 15 times already that day, my right leg just stop 'knowing' how to contract. Similar to your story, only when i hit about 120-90 degrees of knee flexion in a squat, it would be 'reluctant' to continue and when i pushed on, it would collapse. Otherwise it was fully functional. I fully rested for 2 weeks after that, and muscle atrophied, worsening the pain, and it took every bit of willpower to go down to a bodyweight squat, plus a ton of shaking. I went to 3 physios and they could not diagnose me as i passed all standard knee tests (funny thing, on one of the days that i went to the physio, my leg was 100% okay again but continued dying the day before and after that appointment). Not being diagnosed and not knowing how to move forward really eats at you, doesn't it? It's been 7 months and, while i'm not back to where i used to be, i've learned so much about myself and I'm honestly grateful for this massive setback. I've found huge help in focusing on bodily awareness; of which muscles are contributing to a pattern. For example, one of the bicep femoris heads would tense up really hard when i did squats, which made it impossible to continue downwards as both my quads and hamstrings were fighting for tension. As you said, our bodies had forgotten how to move, out of fear of pain. Previously, i had aggressively fought the pain and pushed on, and while it slowly improved, it was incomparable to the improvement i felt when i learned to breathe and focus on absolutely relaxing the muscles. The pain and resistance just goes away. But it definitely took practice. It took a ton of listening to myself and mental maturity to get through this and i felt so lost throughout the whole thing. While i'm at a better place now and I'm maybe 80% back, i truly appreciate knowing someone commendable has lived through a similar experience, and am super thankful for this video. Cheers
I started watching your videos when were more upbeat and i even started a little fitness journey myself but your videos did get less passionate and less fun and so i thought you would eventually quit so I'm glad you found a way to continue chasing your dream and good luck in the future
I do have the same situation with my left ankle... the different to you is i used any help i can get but nobody was able to give me a solution ... i just wanna say i felt your story so hard because im still in this situation.. I wish you all the best! :)
02:43 What's the difference between a calisthenics athlete and a someone who lives in a vacant house without the permission of the owner?The latter is squattingHaha >
Still waiting for Dave to regain his confidence. 8 months and no video. I even thought there was no video during the pandemics, but there are. Anyway... get well, Dave.
Thanks, that rang a few notes with me, I’ll be here when you’re back on form, congratulations on turning it around and overcoming that part of ego that makes us think we know everything.
Thank you for sharing your self reflection on your injury . As logical as you sound, I’m surprised that did not go to the doctor. But nevertheless it is a powerful and convincing experience that really helps other athletes .
Great video, make me be more careful about signs like that. thank you very much, and you will achieve any target you want, and we wait to see that brother.
You seem like a really down to earth guy and i like that your videos also consider a lifestyle where you can't always fully commit to training and nutrition 100% of the time. Good luck dude!
Great video and very nice timing since I injured my wrist a while back. Took me way too long to go see a doctor and as a result the injury got worse and eventually I had to stop working out for half a year. Back to square one but I feel like I learned something so it wasn't completely in vain. Byt the way, with this new realisation that probably your diet wasn't to blame, are you considering going back to being vegan? Keep up the great work, always a pleasure to watch your videos man!
I have almost the same problem... I started walking barefoot to fix my right foot, who was totally deformed... now a few week later iI notice like it goes better and better... it starts in the foot and affects all part till the shoulder... now i can do sqats much better than before but it is still a far way until it is fixed... good luck on your way to fix your knee ;)
This is almost heartbreaking, but I can relate a lot with ankle injuries from skateboarding, taking the time and daily effory to rehab your injury is immensely critical.
I rolled an ankle badly 8 years ago skateboarding, and have had problems ever since. I reminisce about the days when I used to feel so secure on my feet.
That's very helpful and important. 1 year ago i had an injury on my right shoulder and i did the mistake to push through the pain, wich delayed everything. After months and months of healing, i ended with the same fear you described. Happly, i think i got rid of it now, but after this video i will start paying more attetion to these hidden details.
Duude we have same past, I also had pain in my knees cause of rush progress (pistol squat) it took me almost 6,7 months to recover it was horrible but I can run and cycling. Moral of the story: don't rush it learn basic stuffs first
Chasing progressions in calisthenics, in many ways, can be more dangerous than rushing progression in weight training. I think for most people, taking a step back, focusing on the basics, trying to do them as good as possible, and learning to just enjoy the process, can be an incredible shift in perspective. I did this years ago, and it has actually done some pretty amazing things for my fitness. Getting injured sucks, and when it's done for some arbitrary move, it's even worse. I've been there.
Very good story,i can relate but in another way like i know that my mental health is not good right now but idk how to fix it and i am feeling like i am not open and seeking for help at the moment. but maybe if i will solve this problem ASAP my future self will be grateful. thanks for the inspiration and the honesty keep up the good work :)
This really blew my mind. I had a lot of problems with mit right leg or rather my right hip and knee and in addition to that some dificulties with my left shoulder, but I would have never connected those. I stretched a lot and it got a bit better but I only made significant improvement once I started wearing barefoot shoes and changed to some type of full body workout instead of lifting weights. But only now I understand that the problems with my right leg and my left shoulder were connected because of the muscle chain. Thx for that realisation.
