Rheumatoid Arthritis and Strength Training

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Mark Rippetoe

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🗓️ 7 January 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Starting Strength Coach Inna Koppel and Mozelle Goldstein from Woodmere Fitness Club in Woodmere, NY discuss Mozelle's strength training while dealing with the effects of rheumatoid arthritis on her joints. --------------------------- Watch Podcast on YouTube: https://youtu.be/31pnfSnhhyc WEBSITE: https://startingstrength.com FORUM: https://startingstrength.com/resources/forum/ STORE: https://aasgaardco.com Subscribe on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=AasgaardCo Watch us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/startingstrength/ Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SS_strength Like on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Starting-Strength-The-Aasgaard-Company/142424022490628 -----------------------------

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0:00.0	I started having, you know, occasional joint pain, my finger, one of my fingers on my left hand was like weird and not
0:21.6	straightening and then I developed some swelling in other fingers. It took me a while, I
0:27.2	finally saw a doctor and they worked him out for rheumato arthritis. They were convinced
0:32.5	from the get-go. I did not want to accept that because to me that meant, you know, our rudiments arthritis is an autoimmune
0:41.2	disease and I couldn't accept that like my body wasn't working. It wasn't okay for me. So I was like,
0:47.2	no, it's a virus. Months passed. They didn't go away. You had swelling. Got progressively worse. I had MRI of my hand done. I have like a huge,
0:57.4	I have it today even a pocket of swelling. I mean it's pure fluid and there was like no denying
1:02.4	what this is. So I finally was like okay and that to me was like a hard acceptance. The day I was
1:10.5	like I have rheumatoid arthritis was very hard for me.
1:13.6	And on one hand, I see so much worse. So I hated talking about it. I hate of getting emotional
1:20.6	about it. I hated being upset about it because I was like, people have cancer. There's people's
1:25.6	children have cancer. Like, this is manageable. It It's yeah, it sucks and it's painful as anything
1:30.4	To me to say I had it as a great. I'll start meds the meds have not been
1:35.3	Amazing to say the least I've had almost now it's like 10 months of pain
1:40.4	I've had like maybe seven good days in 10-month period where I'm not in pain,
1:44.8	but I've kind of learned to deal with this pain. And in terms of my lifting, I, through the
1:49.9	bad days, the good days, I lift. But what happens, I literally cry through squats. And everyone
1:56.7	knows me in there. If I can't finish my bench I'm like really angry and it's
2:01.9	like and everyone's like no it's okay it's understandable and all I think is like no
2:06.4	it's not okay why isn't my body working what is it doing to me it's very
2:14.3	upsetting to me that it's like you know in the way diseases go I go, I guess like it could be worse, but this is lifelong, it's not going away.
2:22.4	And I have to amend around it.
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