Why your tendons never heal

[IroNat]

[Humble Narcissist]

Lifting lighter weights helps you avoid this problem.

[IroNat]

Lifting lighter weights helps you avoid this problem.

Light weights and high reps can also cause tendonitis.
It's even more likely.

[Humble Narcissist]

Light weights and high reps can also cause tendonitis.
It's even more likely.

Not if you only train the muscle group once a week.

[IroNat]

Not if you only train the muscle group once a week.

Tendonitis is an overuse injury so that goes for training heavy too.

As stated in the video, if you train a tendon before it recovers/heals then you make tendonitis more likely to occur.

You're more likely to cause tendonitis with higher volume.
To get a positive training effect with light weights you must train with more volume (higher reps).

[SF1900]

“The video explains that tendons often fail to heal because of a cycle of repeated stress. When a tendon is injured, micro-tears form, and the body attempts to repair them. However, if you continue to subject the tendon to the same stressful movement before it has fully recovered, the rate of damage begins to exceed the rate of healing, preventing full recovery (1:54 - 2:13). The speaker notes that full healing typically takes between 6 weeks and 6 months (3:24 - 3:28).”

Wow. Groundbreaking. Repeated stress on an injured areas keeps it from healing! Who would have thought. Without this video, I would have been so lost. Thanks for such an informative video.

[IroNat]

“The video explains that tendons often fail to heal because of a cycle of repeated stress. When a tendon is injured, micro-tears form, and the body attempts to repair them. However, if you continue to subject the tendon to the same stressful movement before it has fully recovered, the rate of damage begins to exceed the rate of healing, preventing full recovery (1:54 - 2:13). The speaker notes that full healing typically takes between 6 weeks and 6 months (3:24 - 3:28).”

Wow. Groundbreaking. Repeated stress on an injured areas keeps it from healing! Who would have thought. Without this video, I would have been so lost. Thanks for such an informative video.

I am glad you have learned something new today, SF.

[MajorDomo]

“The video explains that tendons often fail to heal because of a cycle of repeated stress.”

Wow. Groundbreaking. Repeated stress on an injured areas keeps it from healing! Who would have thought. Without this video, I would have been so lost. Thanks for such an informative video.

Many people are new to lifting and don’t know this. Education is a continuous process.

Just like quality control at Autozone!

[SF1900]

Many people are new to lifting and don’t know this. Education is a continuous process.

Just like quality control at Autozone!

MD, thank you for this. You are correct, learning is an ongoing process. Autozone has taught me this. Im constantly learning at Auto Zone!

[IroNat]

MD, thank you for this. You are correct, learning is an ongoing process. Autozone has taught me this. Im constantly learning at Auto Zone!

SF gets my respect for his humility.

[MajorDomo]

SF gets my respect for his humility.

SF is a good guy, as are you IronNat!

[joswift]

I have had a tendon injury for over 15 months... its finally getting there, I did it doing pull ups with 20k added

I still am not at a point where I will risk doing anything heavy on it yet

[IroNat]

I have had a tendon injury for over 15 months... its finally getting there, I did it doing pull ups with 20k added

I still am not at a point where I will risk doing anything heavy on it yet

There's a part in the video about using eccentric contraction to promote healing of a tendon.
Interesting.

[Griffith]

For the patella tendon what worked for me was bodyweight squats, but not going all the way up or down but keeping constant tension in a low range of motion.

[Van_Bilderass]

To get a positive training effect with light weights you must train with more volume (higher reps).

Yup, as I said in another thread it's suggested you can get the same hypertrophic response across various rep ranges as long as you go to approximate failure. As a result of this assumption some say there's no need to do other than 5 rep sets, why take the pain and increased systemic stress of higher reps? LOL. As you say more volume can also cause tendonitis, perhaps even more likely. OTOH higher loads may increase the risk of outright tendon failure aka tears.

For the patella tendon what worked for me was bodyweight squats, but not going all the way up or down but keeping constant tension in a low range of motion.

I used to have recurring tendonitis above the knee where the quad attached, really hurt my lifting for extended periods. I always tried to keep chins vertical when squatting to transfer more of the load on the glutes and away from the knees. I then tried the 'knees over toes' type squatting, which seemingly should worsen knee pain but it did the opposite. My VMO was probably just too weak to handle heavy squats.

'Hindu squat' type of stuff

[joswift]

There's a part in the video about using eccentric contraction to promote healing of a tendon.
Interesting.

yes, you have to work them but not over work.. its a fine line