Summary: In this episode of Get Up And Code, Jesse Taber and John Sonmez talk about injuries. <a style="line-height: 1.5;" href="http://www.patreon.com/getupandcode" target="_blank">Patreon (Donate to Get Up And Code)</a> I’d really appreciate it if you could <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/get-up-and-code!/id646958161?mt=2" target="_blank">Rate Get Up and CODE on iTunes</a>. Thanks! Sponsored by <a href="http://zephyragile.com"></a> Full Transcript: Speaker 1: Welcome to the Get Up and CODE Podcast with your host John Sonmez. The only podcast that combines fitness and programming and does it in less time than it takes to finish your workout. John: Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of Get Up and CODE. I’m John Sonmez and I’m here with Jesse Taber and we are the panel today for Get Up and CODE, so welcome to this episode on injuries. Okay, so yeah, just me and Jesse here today. Are you still there Jesse? Jesse: Yes, I am. John: You were quiet I was like, I’ve given you the intro to speak and you’re quiet so. Jesse: Oh, I might have been muted my bad. John: Oh okay, I was wondering. Jesse: Yeah, no I did. I did say something. I was muted. That’s my bad. Okay. Yes, I am here and we are going to talk about injuries, a pretty interesting topic. I think a topic that anyone who gets into any kind of training for any kind of considerable length of time or with any regularity is going to encounter and probably something that makes a lot of people quit or provides a pretty big setback. I know last week, John, you mentioned a pretty big injury you had had with tearing your pec way back when and how you kind of—you changed it up and decided to go a different direction in your training. Do you want to recap that really quick? John: Oh sure, yeah. Yeah, I mean that was my biggest injury I guess is I tore my pec which was not fun. I had a complete tear so that means that it completely separated from the insertion point and it pretty much—and I never got it actually repaired, not surgically, so it’s still sort of messed up but I’ve worked through it. It definitely put me out. It’s interesting. I mean with that injury I had to—I couldn’t even do like bench the bar when I first started lifting again, that’s after it had technically healed. I was basically starting over. I couldn’t do any dips. Now I’m back up there able to lift pretty heavy but it still affects me of course, but yeah. It’s interesting. There’s, I guess—so there’s 2 categories. There’s the major injuries and then there’s the minor injuries. Jesse: Yeah, the nagging, the annoying little ones. John: Exactly. Everyone, I think, I don’t know of anyone who doesn’t have a minor injury. I have multiple minor injuries that just I have all the time. You just can’t be lifting or running or exercising without having some kind of minor injury I don’t think. Jesse: Yeah, I found—so I mentioned this last episode that Chris and I were sort of the opposite. We have opposite training stories. I used to try to run. I would do Couch to 5K. I kind of get on a kick where I’d be like, “Okay, I’m going to start running” I hate running but I’m going to get better at it. I’m just going to keep doing at it until I get better at it. We go okay for a little while and I make some progress and then something like my shins would bother me. I always had this really, really tough—I get these knots in the outside of my calf muscles when I was running and I would say, “Man, that’s—it just” it’s like if I ran for long enough and they’d get warmed up and then I’d feel great and then I can go for a long time, but getting to that point was really difficult. It was so painful and then after I stopped they would hurt for days after. I said, “Man, that’s really-” and start reading about—there’s no shortage o...
