Pushing Through: Staying On Top of Training - a podcast by Ty Brown

Today I want to talk to you about pain—because I’m in it!

Here’s a little context. Earlier this year, in the spring, I realized I needed to get to the gym. When I was a teenage, I really enjoyed lifting weight. Then life happened. I got busy jobs and eventually started my own company, and I lost the enjoyment of going to the gym. This year, I decided that whether or not I liked it, I needed it. So I started going.

I went three to five times a week to lift eights, and I actually started liking it. I rediscovered the enjoyment I had experienced in my teens and early twenties: lifting a lot of weight, feeling good, and getting healthier.

Then, in July of this year, I tore my chest muscle and part of my bicep during a bench press. That was just over two months ago. It was an enormous amount of pain, and I’m still in pain to a degree. I can’t move some muscles very well and I definitely can’t lift with my left side. (As you may remember, I wrote a few posts about this.) But yesterday I decided to start going to the gym three times a week, even if it’s just to do squats and other lower-body exercises. I need to get back to feeling good and losing weight.

Yesterday I did some squats. Do you know what? After two months off, I could manage way fewer repetitions and way less weight than I could before. It was pretty pathetic, and people were probably laughing at me. Today, I’m in an enormous amount of pain. I’m making my wife upset. Last night I was in bed groaning, “Oh, what do I do?” and I think she brought me medicine just so I would stop whining. At a certain point I was sitting on the toilet and yelling because it hurt my legs—and she came running, wondering what was wrong. So I’m annoying the heck out of my wife! And believe it or not, this totally relates to dog training.

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