What I need is gym bro TikTok, but with old guys like me talking about that one cool trick to target the brachioradialis when you’ve got tendonitis in your ECRB, a small tear in the long head of your bicep, and a 5 PM dinner reservation at the broiler. - ThreadSky

carlbergstrom.com • 56 days ago

What I need is gym bro TikTok, but with old guys like me talking about that one cool trick to target the brachioradialis when you’ve got tendonitis in your ECRB, a small tear in the long head of your bicep, and a 5 PM dinner reservation at the broiler.

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depivo.bsky.social•55 days ago

Stay below the pain limit, low weight, lots of reps. Slowly build up strength. Key is to not further aggravate. Enjoy dinner.

pietro1968.bsky.social•56 days ago

Alternatively you could spend more time in the company of crows.

ideocene.net•56 days ago

I remember wishing there was both an "academics who lift"-sky and a "lifters with injuries" -sky so I hope this becomes a thing.

akshatsharma.bsky.social•56 days ago

Steel yourself for all the broscience; it's agony. There's all sorts of cringe content about boosting your testosterone/immune system/metabolism. Though, my favourite is: "muscle weighs less than fat."

everydayhuman.bsky.social•56 days ago

I was thinking about the old thing the other day. Then I had a thought. Evolutionary speaking, I thought to myself if Luca is about 3.7-4.2 billion years old? and those cells replicated from a part of itself, on and on and on, even from our parents, I can’t see a break in death. Which would

everydayhuman.bsky.social•56 days ago

Make us about 3.7 billion years old maybe? Because we all are relative as far as I know?

Not to mention our atoms are mostly from the Big Bang so those are 13.8?
I’m not trying to poke fun. Or shitpost. All life comes from other life extensions, which I loosely conjecture is part of the same. 🧐

twitskeptic.sirvin.com•56 days ago

Fun for awhile but once you’re over 65 and get to the joint replacement era you can scratch that itch just by meeting your friends for the early bird coffee special.