adarq, we need a "brittlebro" team once the forum switches over. charter members: me, acole, scooby, you, maybe mutumbo000.
yup, nice.
no wait.. high fiving our brittleness.. 
adarq, we need a "brittlebro" team once the forum switches over. charter members: me, acole, scooby, you, maybe mutumbo000.
I should be president of the club. Hamstring rupture, 5 hamstring strains and 3 oblique strains and double knee tendinitis gotta hold sway.
yes, that definitely qualifies you to be a member. lmao!
but, this club must remain presidentless.. the last thing I want to think abut is eventually BECOMING the president of such a club.. HEH!#!@
my brittleness really shines through in how many bones i've broken during contact injuries. I don't even want to think about full tendon tears or serious muscle tears; just thinking about that stuff wrecks me mentally.
injuries = 
This is TOTALLY broscience but it does seem to me that your either a bone breaker or a tendon or ligament guy. I've never broken a bone in my life despite boxing, gymnastics, football, basketball and a extremely reckless child. When I was 13 I jumped off a monument to grab onto a tree branch on a dare and didn't realize the tree branch was wet... Slipped right off and fell almost 20 feet and landed on my arm and leg and walked away. My bones are strong as hell but my tendons snap under heavy load.
My theory is strong bones don't break but they are heavy so they add weight to your body. The increased load is hard for your muscles to carry around and that overloads the tendon and causes it to rupture. This is also my explanation for why I'm so heavy - people never think I weigh more than 200lbs and are shocked when I step on the scale at 225. I trained w LBSS and he was about as thick as me with approximately equal leanness and only an inch shorter but 40 lbs lighter...
I carry more muscle than you right now but I swear you and I could look equally muscled and I would still be 30lbs heavier...
Maybe it's just grass is always greener mentality but I think I'd rather be a bone breaker... Bones grow back stronger than tendons do.
i'll just jump in to second t0ddday's observation. his torso is bigger, my legs are bigger but if we were both wearing long pants and long sleeves we'd look comparable. fwiw, i've only broken little bones (nose, couple fingers). and my worst traumatic impact injury was bones getting dislocated; they didn't break.
but i've had a lifetime of nagging and acute joint injuries.
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it definitely makes sense. I haven't had many muscle tears.
The worst one I had was still from a contact injury (basketball):
- where someone kneed down into my calf as I was planting to go up for a layup.
Other than that, i've had:
- sacral spine issue (genetic, permanent)
- arm break (stupid kid stuff, ~6 y/o)
- chipped tooth (basketball, ~9 y/o)
- osgood schlatter in both knees (~13-15 y/o)
- broken ribs (dirtbike accident, ~14 y/o)
- broken finger - avulsion fracture (basketball, ~12 y/o)
- broken finger (basketball, ~13 y/o)
- broken wrist (basketball, ~16 y/o)
- broken finger (basketball, ~20 y/o)
- completely dislocated pinky toe (boxing - drills on a man barefoot, ~24 y/o)
- broken index knuckle/torn ligament (boxing, ~25 y/o)
- major bicep tendon strain (~26 y/o, sandbag deadlifts/bearhug)
- destroyed toenails (basketball, running)
- and then I pretty much stopped contact sports................ no more breaks.
needless to say, my muscles have seemingly never been strong enough for pulls.
I've had a wide variety of small aches/injuries, ie:
- hamstring tendonitis from trying to become a natural GHR master on my natural GHR bench (never doing that again)
- knee tendonitis from cycling on a shit bike
- hamstring tendon partial tear from a stretching incident
- right elbow tendonitis from tennis/calisthenics, right adductor/hip flexor tendonitis from who knows.
edit: I've also had a few bad lacerations during basketball:
- split head open on temple @ ~19 (this one was worse, basically a faucet of blood, ~10 stitches)
- split top of forehead open two weeks later (~7 stitches)
i'm basically 146-148 right now and i'm still far from 'shredded'. I'm potentially "hollow man".. hollow-man-dunker. From my log, it's clear i'm not starving myself. So as long as i'm eating healthy and feel good, i'm willing to see how low my weight will go, naturally.. into the 'abyss'.
sad member of the brittlebros club.
pc!
