Strategy for preventing nagging pains from developing into chronic injuries?

[rainevi]

Hello,

I’m wondering what BBM’s recommended protocol is in cases where you experience a nagging, tolerable pain for a day or two after a workout, or perhaps a new (again tolerable) pain appears during a movement.

How do you make the judgment if and when to reduce intensity for the next workout(s), for the painful exercise, or ones that would target the painful bodypart?

It seems my experience is usually like: A slight pain appears, and I ignore it because typically pains come and go or it’s not that bad, and pretty soon it has become something much more difficult to recover from.

It would nice to have some kind of hard and fast rule to make managing these situations easier.

Let’s assume prescribed RPEs of the program are being followed, so the overall load management is in control.

Thanks!

[Michael_Ray]

@rainevi

Hello,

I’m wondering what BBM’s recommended protocol is in cases where you experience a nagging, tolerable pain for a day or two after a workout, or perhaps a new (again tolerable) pain appears during a movement.

How do you make the judgment if and when to reduce intensity for the next workout(s), for the painful exercise, or ones that would target the painful bodypart?

It seems my experience is usually like: A slight pain appears, and I ignore it because typically pains come and go or it’s not that bad, and pretty soon it has become something much more difficult to recover from.

It would nice to have some kind of hard and fast rule to make managing these situations easier.

Let’s assume prescribed RPEs of the program are being followed, so the overall load management is in control.

Thanks!

So…like most complex issues, it depends. I don’t think a hard and fast rule exists for hypothetical scenarios like this. If the issue persists, bleeds over into daily life, and leaves the person feeling debilitated then it’s likely something needs to be changed but context matters.