Help me, please stick with it.

[scotty1]

OK, hello and welcome. Thanks for coming.

A little while back I asked about the popping of my chest.
It had been an annoyance, but then became painful.
I went to see the doc, and she said to not do any load bearing exercise for a week until it felt cool. Also to take some anti-inflammatories.

So I did, and it got better, and I started training again. But perhaps a little too soon, as I really missed training.
Over the last couple of weeks I've noticed my chest gradually popping more and more, but I've been in denial, as I really wanted to continue training.

And this afternoon, the pain came back. Like a mild burning in the centre of my chest, pretty noticeable, in fact, I can still feel it now.

So I'm going to have to stop training until it is totally sorted out, because I am going training in Asia in May and I need it good by then. So I thought maybe I should use this opportunity to work on my cardio, go running when I would normally do lifting or bag work. But I don't want to lose any weight. Will that happen if I do nothing but run for a month or so? If I get my cardio up , and then use that last month before I leave to heavy bag myself to death, and leave off the weights, then I'll probably be cool right? Because while I travel, I'll be mostly doing calisthenics to keep myself in shape.

For those of you still here, I thank you, and admire your perseverance. :)

[scotty1]

Thanks guohen but I don't know anything about that type of breathing.

[Ima Pseudonym]

from your descripition it sounds like you pulled or strained the muscles or ligaments around your rib cage. it's not all that uncommon believe it or not, and i have personally used dit da jow to fix it. use of dit da jow is part my traditional training and most of the general conditioning formulas are designed specifically not only to boost recovery after the fact, but more importantly prevent injuries such as ours.

i would send you some of mine, but i think the postage from here to there would break me lol.

D

[IronFist]

If you're going to up cardio and don't want to lose weight (muscle), you need to increase your protein and possibly other calories as well.

Iron

[ElPietro]

I'd suggest getting your self checked by a sports therapist or physiotherapist. Doctors are usually dumbas$es when it comes to rehab or weight training techniques. A good therapist could probably at least recommend something to aid in the rehab of your injury, which is a lot better than just doing nothing and hoping it heals properly.

[scotty1]

El Pietro, you are the man.

BTW, I have some Jow which should apparently increase blood flow to the area and help it heal.

[CD Lee]

As to whether you will lose wieght or not just running for a month:

This should be fairly simple to figure out. I lost 40 lbs running to get into a race a few years ago, but I was not doing any other exercise at the time.

You lose weight when you burn more calories than you consume over a period of time. Some exersice is more prone to burning calories than others. When you lose weight, you always lose fat and some muscle as well, which may or may not be bad. Lets say you were working out 2 hrs a day before including running. If you burned say 500 calories in that time, that is what affects your weight after your body adjusts on anerobic exercise, which also increases muscle mass. So you are stable at 500 calories per day, which is akin to running 5 miles a day at 'any' speed.

If you now double your running, but up it to two miles per day, then you are over by 300 calories, and will start to gain weight if you do not change your diet.

I highly recommend NEVER increasing the distance you run more than 10% per week EVER for any reason, on a consitient basis.
This is the best advice for a runner based on thousands of runners experiences with injuries. You can definately injure yourself if you start immediately doubling your running suddenly and maintain that or worse, tripling your running.

It would be best to combine swimming, running, and cycling together to equal what you were doing before.

One last note on running. If you can currently run with ease, then definately do not overdo your increase in volume on running. Running injuries are serious, hard to get rid of, and affect most people for years and later in life. Stay healthy, and enjoy your current abilities. But above all STAY HEALTHY!

Good luck dude!

[GunnedDownAtrocity]

so since i do zero running now an increase of 10% would be zeroe.

yet another excuse not to start running. i like excuses.

[Aramus]

Go see a different doctor, a different kind of doctor (Chiropractor, specialist, TCM), go get therapy...see what your insurance covers to reduce costs. Anthem and a few other plans insurance plans will allow you to go get thearpy for somewhere around 6 weeks. I have no idea what it is like where you live and your insurance situation. This is sometimes the most cost-effective place to start.

I hate the advice of, "Well, you're hurt so don't do anything for ______week(s) and then see if it is better." yea, cause that always works...whatever happened to fix the problem
Wait, I guess not doing anything is a fix to some degree :(


Good luck

peace
:)