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Hips and knees are often replaced due to joint problems, not bone problems. Though osteoporosis can lead to fractures, those injuries are usually repaired without replacing the entire joint.
I know, I also linked a study to soft tissue study.
Hips and knees are often replaced due to joint problems, not bone problems. Though osteoporosis can lead to fractures, those injuries are usually repaired without replacing the entire joint.
You're also mixing up my words and the point I'm trying to get across. That's okay, I wasn't being too specific.
...but I do wonder if there are any long term ramifications assocaited with lifting heavy for roughly a decade and change...
Why did you start wondering about this, though? Are you experiencing health issues you believe to be connected with lifting? Have you found any reputable studies that suggest lifting heavy weights leads to joint or bone problems over the long term?
Muscle does not turn to fat. Some people may get fat after quitting any kind of exercise, if they don't adjust their food intake to compensate for the reduction in the calories they're burning when they exercise less, but muscle and fat are different kinds of tissue, which cannot turn into each other. Muscle can't turn into fat any more than hair can turn into bone.
THIS!!...why do so many adults think that muscle and fat are the same, and one can somehow turn into the other??....
Why did you start wondering about this, though? Are you experiencing health issues you believe to be connected with lifting? Have you found any reputable studies that suggest lifting heavy weights leads to joint or bone problems over the long term?
Honestly, I can't be too sure, as I'm a hypochondriac. I do believe I have issues with my sciatica nerve every once in a while do the heavy forces on my spine in squating and deadlifting.
I'm also 30, so by the grace of God, I may have been fortunate enough to exit weightlifting without any detrimental injuries or small injuries that will become detrimental in the future.
I presume that weightlifitng causes more chronic long term damage to the joints rather than acute injuries, as tommonadue suggested.
it has been said that weight lifting is the safest 'sport' its just you against the Iron....essentially your ego/poor form is what causes you injury, not the actual weights. Meaning its not the amount of weight a person lifts, its how much can they lift using good form and not using poor form to lift heavier than they are ready to lift.
I presume that weightlifitng causes more chronic long term damage to the joints rather than acute injuries, as tommonadue suggested.
Wow, way to put words in my mouth.
Never said such a thing - my post AND cited studies clearly stated that there is NO chronic long term damage and any injuries are overuse.
You're something else.
It's also funny that most posts in this forum are related to 'running injuries'; which in another post I cited a study on runners getting injured much more often than internationally ranked weight lifters.
...I'm a hypochondriac. I do believe I have issues with my sciatica nerve every once in a while do the heavy forces on my spine in squating and deadlifting...I presume that weightlifitng causes more chronic long term damage to the joints rather than acute injuries, as tommonadue suggested.
Forgive me here, but you preface this with "I'm a hypochondriac" and then you go on to say that "you believe" or that "you worry" that these issues are related to your weightlifting. Not the most convincing of arguments, right?
Has your doctor suggested that your health issues might be related to weight training?
I have been bodybuilding for 40 years. I am now 63 and probably need hip surgery. I will be evaluated at Miami Health in 2 weeks. I squatted heavy for most of that time. The arthritis is in every singled disc of my spine since age 38. The arthritis in my lower lumbar is the worst of all right now. I was also a rock musician and carried most of the my equipment on the side of the same hip. Using that hip more than the other. I did hard manual labor as a kid. I have necrosis in that hip which will never heal. Only get worse. My inflammation is quite unreal. I use a lot of ice after work-outs. Oh yeah...my squatting days are over but my legs and the rest of me still look great. If I had to do it all over and could remember this I would have done it different.
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