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Sorry to hear that man. My grandfather passed away Sept 13, 2002. A few months after i graduated high school and it was friday the 13th...what a day huh. Oh that's pretty neat then. Yeah you definitely wanna stay away from anything laboring like that cause pretty soon it'll be hard for you to even get your socks on in the morning. All these guys trying to lift insane amount of weights are screwing themselves over in their' elder years cause they're gonna be having serious knee and back issues that walking is gonna be a task. I don't do anything anymore that i think will affect me later down the road

Did you have surgery on the back codexp2? If not, and you're still in pain, try the reverse hyper extension machine, It's a miracle worker for the lower back. I started experiencing lumbar pain in my early 20's, and this has worked great for me over the years.

I absolutely agree about saving your joints. My shoulder is so arthritic from the years of lifting, and work I'll probably need it replaced soon. Stay away from heavy benching young people!

I know so many people whose shoulders are shot from lifting. My business partner just turned 40 and his present, a torn labrum on his birthday. Luckily, Dr. Lee from the Diamond Backs pieced him back together. If you ever have a shoulder done find the ortho in your area that's a team doctor for an MLB team. It may take a while to get in, but trust me on this one!

I didn't have surgery on my back. I was told to wait until I couldn't tolerate the pain anymore. That happened in '97 and the tear eventually herniated, but I can still stand it. Although I don't practice, I'm a internist by trade. I keep up with medical advances. The surgeries are 10x better today than they were a decade ago. There's been several promising trials on disc regeneration using MSCs (stem cells) in goats. I'm hoping in the next decade we something more viable than spinal fusion.

BTW, I love the reverse hyper!

This should be posted at every gym, but I'd wager a bet it'd be torn down within the hour. Youth is wasted on the young right?

Man I love this thread!! I was and sort of still am a huge boxing fan. Ali's rope-a-dope...wow!! I remember the superfights with Leonard, Hagler, Hearns and Duran. I remember watching a young devastating kid named Mike Tyson destroy everything in front of him. What about Kevin Kelly getting smashed for 11 rds and knocking out his opponent in the 12th. Or a young Mosley fighting SIX times in one year trying to catch Oscar. The fight where Roy Jones was DQ'd and came back in the next fight to beat Griffin in like 30 secs. What about Floyd all 5'5'' of him (joking) taking it to the late Diego Corrales who was like 6'2''.

With all that said....I fell head over heels for MMA. Some of their matchups seem bad but these guys take a beating. At first I was drawn to the instant KO's and submissions but once you really get into the technical side of things it becomes so much more interesting. As the sport has evolved you have seen some of the greats leave because they have not evolved. (see BJ Penn)

Like many of you I think the overload of PPV is watering things down, but you can't knock their hustle.

You wouldn't believe half of the stuff that Floyd gets into out here in Vegas. He's always in some incident by attacking someone or having his goons do it. He's had like 2 or 3 incidents in the recent and was sentenced but they gave him a suspended sentence so he could set up the fight with Pacquio but now that totally fell through and he's fighting someone else. What kind of justice is that? I've been over to his gym and met Roger Mayweather and all but i'm not a fan of Floyd's. He's not a graceful champion and he's handpicked his fights throughout his career and dodged the best while they were at the top of their' game and chose to fight em when they were washed up

Good topic!

It's a VERY popular sport here in Indianapolis. American Top Team has a gym here. While I dont train MMA, before my back surgery I trained VERY heavily (4x week) in Muay Thai kickboxing, which is used A LOT in MMA. I just wanted to try it out, and I was hooked. It's very rewarding if you put the time and effort into it. I trained at the Indianapolis Martial Arts club for a year, but didnt like the "corporate structure" if you will. I moved to a smaller gym, with BETTER trainers (shamar bailey of the UFC trains here when in town) and LOVED it!

I'm trying REALLY REALLY hard to get back to it. A LOT of physical therapy and etc....I want to train and golf...thats it! LOL

If anyone is on the fence about it, PM me I can give ya some details Muay Thai related...start up costs, gear costs, ETC...

I had a multi-level fusion and It's the best thing I've ever done...He said I'll beable to go back to full go in about 3 more months. He said it will be up to me on activites..some will be fine, some will hurt, but training he said initially will hurt because of time i took off and not to confuse that with actual spine pain. So we'll see.