Muscle Tears - Too Easy! - MESO-Rx

clloyd · #1 (**permalink**) 05-17-2009, 09:53 AM

I am 37 years old, and I feel like 50% of the time I try to play a fast paced sport, I pull a muscle. I was playing tennis yesterday and sprinted for a drop shot and pulled my hamstring!

I have been on TRT for almost a year now and this is the only thing it hasn't solved. I spent years of doing NO activity, and then many years of slow long distance work. However, I see other people my age fatter and more out of shape than me that don't pull muscles. Maybe I go too hard?

My question is could this be a imbalance of electrolytes, etc. OR is this something as simple as I need to slowly build back fast twitch muscle over a period of a year? Btw, I warmed up and streched a lot yesterday beforehand.

Frustrated....

**Bigkarch** · #2 (**permalink**) 05-17-2009, 01:02 PM

hard to say...warm ups and stretching is key..if you did that properly if could be due to the fact that what you tore or hurt was a muscle that does not get any workout/training or stretching..

working out fast and slow twitch fibers is tricky...keep stretching and take it easy then little by little you will be back to normal

BBC3 · #3 (**permalink**) 05-17-2009, 04:39 PM

I can tell you I have stats close to yours and have soem similar problems. I was actually running wind sprints a couple of weeks ago. I have not done these in years. I was actually faster than when I was young, I am assuming do to new upper body weight. It was like I could dig in a actually go faster and faster!! Needless to say on the third one I pulled up gimp with a hammy. Thank god it was just an outter perhipial hamstring and not one of the big boys.... I have simply found that I cant push myself if I have not been training that particular area as the juice strength inclines to give unusual ability to overtrain. Go figure. Never thought I'd say those words.

Nomercyfreak · #4 (**permalink**) 05-20-2009, 01:29 PM

Mbear

dutch36 · #5 (**permalink**) 05-20-2009, 01:43 PM

"I spent years of doing NO activity, and then many years of slow long distance work."
know "fast paced sport, I pull a muscle"

Most likely it is just something your body is not used to. You probably just need to increase at a slower level and include speed work on a consistent basis. You cannot expect to jump into a fast paced sport every once and a while without training hard in between, that is how a lot of weekend warriors injure themselves. Luckily, the TRT will help with the recovery.