My first injury just happened.

The vessel just blew up.You`ve got very frail vessels.You`d need to take something to strengthen your vessels, smth like horse chestnut or similar.
 
The most innocent injury, ( yours may be more than that) can turn nagging and then chronic.
Years can pass then " son of a bitch, there it is again"
The extra intensity is not worth it.
Absolutely amazing to me that you state you have no experience with injury due to exercize.
Any, any discomfort during workout should end the workout for evaluation for at least a day before continuing.
Just an example.....
The athelete who toughs it out with a sprained ankle is always done for a few weeks with the broken blood vessels etc... once the event/game is done.
Good luck and care for the future.
 
Baron said:
As much as I hate to admit it, I suffered my first exercise-related injury this week. I decided to do an all-out, NFL-style sprint workout two weeks ago and it was very hard. I was sore for 7 days afterwards. Then I got the bright idea to go out and do it again.
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Looks like a fairly bad case of kurtosis to me.

Happened to a friend of mine. He started to recover fairly well for about two weeks but then his private parts fell off.
 
Pekelo said:
" easy bruising might be caused by consuming excessive amounts of fish oil, ginger, garlic or ginkgo biloba, all of which can thin the blood."

Well, are you taking those? I actually eat garlic and fish oil quite a lot...
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Not sure about the ginko biloba, but I consume the other ones daily for sure.
 
Baron said:
As much as I hate to admit it, I suffered my first exercise-related injury this week. I decided to do an all-out, NFL-style sprint workout two weeks ago and it was very hard. I was sore for 7 days afterwards. Then I got the bright idea to go out and do it again.

As soon as I did the first 30-second sprint, I could instantly feel that I was STILL sore from the last workout.

But I proceeded to do 25 more minutes of interval sprint torture. I completed the workout but my legs were definitely hurting. I walked back home from the field I was sprinting in with no issues whatsoever. Next day, no problem. Just the same upper leg soreness I felt on the last sprint workout. I'm so used to being sore that I didn't pay it any mind.

The next day I wake up and my left leg is swollen, and starting to bruise up like crazy. The next day after that I had a bunch of fluid accumulating in my leg and it was very uncomfortable. After a few days since then, the fluid in now gone and I'm starting to walk ok, but the bruising is pretty gnarly.

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I never heard a "pop" of any sort or felt like I could no longer complete the workout. I can walk OK but obviously there's a little weirdness and pain involved but nothing too crazy. It seems to get better with each passing day.
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That must have been some fierce intensity with crazy wide strides. Can't imagine how else you would have pulled or slightly torn your muscle. Hope you get better soon.

Have you ever considered doing HIIT with bodyweight squats, perhaps for a bit of variety? It's my exercise of choice for intervals. I mentioned it elsewhere in the past, where you do X reps at a brisk pace, followed by Y reps at max speed and then repeat for a number of intervals. Should you ever decide to try it, you may wish to not go below 90 degrees or lock out at the top for the speed portion because doing so slows you down. If you ever do decide to give it a try, please let me know how it goes.
 
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Frederick Foresight said:
Have you ever considered doing HIIT with bodyweight squats, perhaps for a bit of variety?
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I haven't done bodyweight squats but I recently did HIIT training with burpees, which is combination of a pushup and a bodyweight jump. I actually liked that workout quite a bit.
 
speedo said:
How's the leg?
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It's getting better but it's really slow. If I sit at my desk too long, it will start bothering me so I will move to the sofa or recliner to prop it up straight.

I did a brief upper body + calves weight training workout earlier this week just to keep things flowing if you know what I mean. I'll probably do the same thing this afternoon.
 
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