I modified my diet and I am currently about 183, down from 190. My goal is 175. However, my legs are killing me. My workout has not changed and I feel I am gaining more stamina and endurance. I feel like the pain is severe enough to use a tramadol but I cannot because I am too busy. I do stretch and go in the steam room afterwards. What is up with my body?
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Losing weight but full of aches and pains
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Maya
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How often do you work your legs out? Do you do a lot of running? When you say pain is it dull achy pain? If its too painful and its bren painful for a while then maybe a visit to a doctor might help. If not then it is probably that you might be over working your legs.
RedLeader
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You want to do the majority of your weight loss in the kitchen, not the gym. What is your diet like? 8 more lbs...you can totally do that in a few weeks if you tweak your diet and eating patterns a bit.
@Maya
Most of the pain is are my hamstrings.
Mon-Wed: I run 2 miles and bike 4, then weights
Thur: Run 1 mile, bike 2, then weights.
I do tons of walking at my day job (walking from one building to the next) and I work part-time as a 'manny' so it's not unusual for me to play soccer or basketball too. I had a minor slip on wet grass on Monday. On Tuesday, I fell out of a tree and got a nasty cut on my leg. I also have some minor arthritis in my knee too.
Most of the pain is are my hamstrings.
Mon-Wed: I run 2 miles and bike 4, then weights
Thur: Run 1 mile, bike 2, then weights.
I do tons of walking at my day job (walking from one building to the next) and I work part-time as a 'manny' so it's not unusual for me to play soccer or basketball too. I had a minor slip on wet grass on Monday. On Tuesday, I fell out of a tree and got a nasty cut on my leg. I also have some minor arthritis in my knee too.
no shit. How do you think I lost the 7lbs in the first place? I haven't modified my workout, just my diet.
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Neoprimitive
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Well you run a fair bit, and bike, so that is a good amount of stress on the muscles, ligaments, tendons of the area, have you thought about or do you wear a pair of compression tights? I had a similar issue and as soon as I started wearing them it helped a lot with the issue. Also if your getting a constant stream of inflammation via your work outs and job you may look into some anti-inflammatory supps: Cissus Quadrangularis helps a fair bit with inflammation, and has also been proven in studies with bone issues by increasing the rate at which bones heal, doses wonders for joints as well, the standard Glucosamine HCL, Chondroitin Sulfate and MSM will help as well with any joint pain and arthritis ( that combo works great for knees man I have had one of mine replaced and the other rebuilt and I swear by the stuff). One thing that a lot of people forget about is whether you are getting a proper amount of electrolytes with that level of activity,( a lack of potassium in particular can cause some aches and pains in the legs) it can lead to minor muscle cramps and the like. A nice pair of insoles may help as well sounds like some stupid advice but it sounds like you have things under control it is just the schedules are grinding the body done a bit so you need to bump up the comfort level so to speak. Stretching is good as is the steam room but the electrolytes thing may be more of an issue with the steam room as sweating obviously leads to loss, so increase your water intake, look at an electrolyte supplement. Otherwise if this becomes persistent you may want to see a Dr.
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There are different kinds of pain. Some pain is productive and is a sign that muscle exhaustion has been reached, and it's now recovering. Kind of like the pain you feel the day after an intense workout. If you're feeling intense pain during your workout or not long after, you might be going too hard. The hamstrings are sensitive muscles to injury and take longer to recover. Intense workouts, especially strength training, is technically injury because it tears muscle fibres so that they heal stronger. I can really only strength train my hamstrings once a week because it takes that whole time to recover again. Good job putting the strength training on the last day so that you're not running while it's recovering.
I can't be too sure, but I suspect that doing an intense run and *then* doing strength training, in the same workout, is too much. Prior to most strength training, 10-15 minutes of light cardio is all you need to get the circulation flowing before hitting the weights. It sounds like you are combining intense aerobic and anaerboic exercise, in the same day, which is hard on the muscles.
I would suggest restructuring your routine to allow for cardio or strength training, but not both, even if only temporarily. Larger muscles like the hamstrings need more recovery time especially because they are major stabilizers in the legs that are involved in all other kinds of leg workouts. If you don't heed the pain warnings and keep pushing it, your short-term inflammation can turn to chronic strain which takes a lot longer to go away.
Also... you may want to consider rolling out your muscles with a foam noodle after each intense workout.
I can't be too sure, but I suspect that doing an intense run and *then* doing strength training, in the same workout, is too much. Prior to most strength training, 10-15 minutes of light cardio is all you need to get the circulation flowing before hitting the weights. It sounds like you are combining intense aerobic and anaerboic exercise, in the same day, which is hard on the muscles.
I would suggest restructuring your routine to allow for cardio or strength training, but not both, even if only temporarily. Larger muscles like the hamstrings need more recovery time especially because they are major stabilizers in the legs that are involved in all other kinds of leg workouts. If you don't heed the pain warnings and keep pushing it, your short-term inflammation can turn to chronic strain which takes a lot longer to go away.
Also... you may want to consider rolling out your muscles with a foam noodle after each intense workout.
I do running first. Biking then weights. However, all of weights are upper body. Basically the running and biking is upper body and the weights are lower body. One thing that I noticed is that the pain gets worse when I use a different treadmill (when "my" treadmill is being used).
Foreigner
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Hmmm, in that case maybe you need orthotics? If your foot shape isn't ideal for running then it will wreak havoc on your alignment, causing all kinds of intense pain.
Neoprimitive
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This is true, and even some thing as simple as a 10$ pair of insoles may fix you up unless you are in need of some serious orthotics. DO you have a knee issue? or have you had one in the past? because a weak/damaged ligament or meniscus, may not cause you a lot of pain on a bike but on a tread mill it will wreak havoc.
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Full lymphatic massage to get rid of lactic acid? You feel spectacular after if nothing else?
I had a nasty knee sprain in 2007. The doctors said I have arthritis but my knee is much better now than before.
Neoprimitive
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Arthritis sucks mate, I have it my self in a few joints, from surgeries. Glad to hear its better, though. I was curious, because for me an early sign of a soft tissue injury was pain while running. The leg was having to suck up the extra load on the muscles from a very slight change in its operation from a small minor tear in the MCL. Soft tissue issue are a bitch, especially in the leg so many things can be off, and little things make a huge difference when you train intensely. I am with foreigner on this you may want to invest in some orthotics