"maybe take a week or two off to see if it gets better" just gets me blank stares of disbelief. But i took yesterday off, i can't take off next week because ....
I grew up in Boulder CO and some of those folks cannot comprehend taking a day off let alone a real break. Like, dude, it rains once a year here and you're gonna whine that you can't climb today? Sheesh
It's pervasive in most sports. Even weight lifting where rests are basically manditory. Still you get absolute chumps who injure themselves out because they work out too often.
Meanwhile I've been half-arsing my weight lifting routine for years, but have made and maintained far larger gains, through the benefits of junk food, attainable goals, and laziness.
Can confirm. I'm deep into my second year of (a proper) lifting (regime) and I'm doing it with far less frequency and weight than I would've imagined at the start, due to chronic minor injury from constant overreaching in the first year.
I need someone like that for my PT exercises, because I forever get stuck in a cycle of pain -> start consistently doing PT again -> it’s fixed, I don’t need to do PT! -> why do I hurt?