Thread by @ThatShockratees

Humbled (or more like humiliated) by giving myself a hyperextension injury a couple weeks ago. It’s still not completely gone, but I can tell it’s muscle and not disc bc it hurts only when I tense muscle and not just when I bend.

Yes, humiliated. Why?

I was doing my normal rotation which, for that day, was planks, high kettle swings, bridge and ab wheel. Now an wheel is famous for hyperextension injuries but I’ve been doing it for years and I always use a mark on the floor and face a wall so I know I’m not hyperextending.

So this time I was a bit full of myself and thinking “my back’s strong for my age - so many have chronic back pain and I don’t bc I exercise.” Kinda snotty, right? Then I thought of a guy I know who’s had several back fusions & was like “hmmph - bet he didn’t do the right stuff.”

Then I moved my knees back from my very normal and not easy but safe mark and did a few reps. Continuing to be swelled with pride, I moved way back so I didn’t hit the opposite wall at all and completed my reps that way.

The next day (you don’t feel em when they happen) I bent over and nearly fell down the pain was so bad. I got sick around the same time so I’ve mostly been just lying down and it’s healing.

But I have so feared it wouldn’t, and that would be my punishment for looking down on back surgery guy and thinking I was better than him.

Hope I learned my lesson.