Real talk: Are you too injured to lift in your meet?

50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD

Jim McDonald

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🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

So many lifters get banged up in the course of meet prep and find themselves wondering if it’s even worth doing the meet they had planned. Should they just heal up and wait for the next one? If you can’t PR. If you can’t win. Is the juice worth the squeeze?

Avi Lieu joins us to talk about her back injury and her hope that it will be resolved in time for USAPL raw nationals in a few weeks. You can find Avi on Instagram at @avi.lieu,

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0:00.0	So you got a broken neck back up oh back but they're all attached yeah same thing
0:13.6	um my neck was an issue before and that's what people like still think it is is it
0:18.0	because you have an extra large head um no did you bring that up to the PT my head is not big
0:26.0	you should want your head to be big because like that's actually y'all know actually like
0:29.6	pictures and in in TV movies it's the people with the great big heads that are considered the
0:35.4	most attractive yeah you actually have a tiny head that's weird tiny little head that's okay
0:40.0	with me i don't want a big head but no it's not the problem um my neck is still whatever it's
0:45.5	not perfect but um it's my back my lower back my lumbar and i don't know exactly what it is
0:52.2	they don't know exactly what it is um i have an appointment after this for the doctor to check
0:57.2	to see if he wants to give me an MRI my spine looks normal but she had an x-ray yeah i had an x-ray
1:06.4	you know p-seat primary care physician referred me to a sports medicine doctor had two sessions
1:12.6	with her over the course of three weeks and then when it didn't get better the second session
1:16.6	she just told me and he just stopped squatting and deadlifting until it gets better and then slowly
1:21.9	start incorporating weights again and i'm like okay well that doesn't even align with what
1:29.2	i know about physical therapy because i've met with physical therapists before who know lifting
1:34.1	like Emily and um yeah you should be going through movements as specific as possible without
1:41.0	irritating it and you know i don't want to speak too much of it because i don't study this stuff
1:45.8	and then other credentials but that's just not doing anything and just like
1:51.8	she's giving me these little tiny like yoga old people stretch stuff yeah i'm like that's not
1:57.5	gonna you're covering your ass because you don't want just to say for out yeah prescribe
2:02.8	be anything more any more rigorous or more specific right it's i don't if i don't do anything i
2:08.6	don't get worse right probably you know chances are yeah so but true yeah but you ain't gonna get
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