Ep 376: 3 Things You Need to Know About Chronic Pain and Building Physical Strength

If you right now have chronic pain or other chronic symptoms / sensations, you may think that strength training is totally impossible for you right now.

You might be thinking:
I’m too old to start.
My body is too weak to start.
My chronic pain is too bad to start.
I’m too anxious to start.
My doctor says that my condition won’t allow me to strength train.
When I move my body I get too scared of making my pain worse.

In addition, if you’ve strength trained before you may have done it mostly in order to lose weight, And that becomes another stressor. You look at the scale all the time and wonder when is it going to go down. STRESS STRESS STRESS.

Here’s what I want to tell you with this episode:

Strength training serves a much bigger purpose than weight loss. If you want to look at some numbers, don’t look at the ones you see on the scale. Look at how strong you are getting.

Even if you have chronic symptoms, you CAN move your body. Check out Amanda’s success story, all about how she started lifting after 13 years of chronic fatigue and other symptoms, and how strength training actually helped to reduce her chronic symptoms. https://youtu.be/lA7HFZUTiSs?si=vBaLzwfmGskhx6Ip

Lastly, remember that sometimes well-meaning health care providers aren’t right. What I am saying is NOT medical advice, but I am encouraging you to ask for a second opinion or do a little more research… In my case, I was told by a health care professional that I should NEVER deadlift again, yet he was NOT right. I found out that my back pain was due to nervous system dysregulation and wayyyy overstressed brain! I can now deadlift ALL I want and I’m currently using very heavy weights, despite hearing 4-5 years ago that my back is in such a bad shape that I should never lift again.

So, don’t ignore your doctor… Just be curious and see if there’s something else that could be going on and causing your problems (aka, your nervous system / brain!)

I hope that today’s episode inspires and motivates you!

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