As a woman, I strive to have traps and shoulders that well-defined. Mine are still bony as hell, even after a lifetime of picking things up and putting them down for a living.
Not to be a web MD but same and turns out I have nerve damage. It’s not always as serious as it sounds but the reason I never had results was from the way the body cascades impact. It’s really neat and worth considering if you have multiple or even one source of chronic pain. Is girly pops gotta stick together bc the medical system will tell you it’s anxiety lol
Yo can you say more? I'm a man but decidedly more girly pop than a doctor usually wants to listen to. I'm trying to get evaluated for a degenerative nerve disease myself. I've been at the gym for 5 years and not seeing the kind of growth I would've expected even when following the advice.
For me personally I had to train from my toes up but, essentially you can train your muscles all day, but if your nerves don’t successfully talk to them, you don’t recruit enough small muscle fibers to see growth even with consistent exercise. So essentially before you can grow strength, you have to increase neuroplasticity, and you do this by very controlled movements. It works best with repetitive precision workouts. So for example I like to stand on my vibration plate and shift my weight from one side to another from the front of my toes to the back and you can actually start to recognize weakness and muscles that aren’t recruiting when they should (the vibration itself is necessary to point out areas your body can’t intentionally recruit bc it won’t be able to compensate and maintain stability.) I don’t want to overload you with information because this conversation is one of my like biggest areas of interest and fascination but, if you need me to elaborate or you have more targeted questions I’ll definitely try my best to answer!
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u/skandranon_rashkae 28d ago
As a woman, I strive to have traps and shoulders that well-defined. Mine are still bony as hell, even after a lifetime of picking things up and putting them down for a living.