TeamLiquid Health and Fitness Initiative For 2023 - Page 210

On October 24 2018 09:55 IgnE wrote:
Imperfect movement patterns, asymmetric strength, poor range of motion, and even genetic bad luck will grind your hips during squatting movements, especially if you have cam and/or pincer bone impingements as a result of childhood and teenage sporting activity.

Femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) syndrome has skyrocketed in the last decade, especially among the 30s-40s crowd who engage in high stress/impact activities like crossfit. Multiple studies have shown that a majority of men who played sports like soccer/basketball as teenagers have visibly diagnosable "impingements," usually involving of both cam and pincer type, even though most within that majority are asymptomatic. It is unclear whether extra bony material on the femur head and the acetabular socket is a result of degradation leading to arthritis from impact sports, or whether it is a way of trying to protect the body from said impacts.

So your choices as you get older include:

• sit around all day and assume a higher overall mortality rate greater than smoking, drinking, and obesity combined
  
• grind your bones and joints into dust until you are forced to sit around all day, assuming a higher overall mortality rate greater than smoking, drinking, and obesity combined
  
• try and work with and around your body so as to maximize its potential capacity in order to maintain movement, strength, and pliability into old age, but knowing that you cannot fully evade the slow stiffening of your soft tissues, the fraying of your cartilage, and the inflammation of your joints that comes with time