Muscle Bound Fighters Being More Injury Prone... Fact or Fiction?

Jones was muscular.

The tendons drying up thing I think is a myth. It's steroids like Winstrol-V that decrease fat and take away lubrication like fat and water that supports the tendon. Once you're very lean, there's an easier change of the tendon rupturing. Steroids do make you stronger of course, your muscles, while your tendons can't keep up as per strengthing while your muscles strengthen. Your joints however can dry up for sure from steroids, usually happens after you cycle off.

 

Naturals like Bradley is just fine, but musclebound meatheads like Brock Lesnar is the perfect candidate on this theory.

 

The biggest factor are the sports themselves and how the exertion of the body puts strain on the muscles, tendons and joints...

Daivd Haye's career is pretty much over after his shoulder injury...but no doubt he has always had problems with that shoulder and arm with reoccurring injuries. Alot of force is transferred when throwing a right hand.... If it's not absorbed by something it puts alot of strain and force into the shoulder...boxer's aren't' good examples to use.

 

Agreed. Granted, it took learning the lessons the hard way for the experts to develop their expertise.

Overwork is still an issue and can easily augment joint and tendon damage if it's not monitored. And, while it's not a big problem in boxing, football owes a lot of non-contact ACL and Achilles' injuries to guys who are either novices or getting bad advice from whoever's planning their regimens.

 

I was almost a pro bodybuilder, hung out and knew a few past Mr. Olympias. They always drink alot of water, even off cycles to ensure hydration and max performance, that's it. They aren't drinking water for the joints. They're popping about a bottle of advil a day and taking shots from their docs, along with Deep Tissue massage therapy sessions.

 

dude......Shane was almost 43 years and a former lightweight fighting a former super middleweight! :rofl
ever thought that he just quit and took the money and ran? and if thats not the case chalk it up to being fuc.king old. Pernell whitaker threw his shoulder out when missing a punch when he was 37.... fighters get old, get injured....nothing to do with weights in his case

 

Fact, easier to tear muscles and suffer from fatigue based injuries when you have a bodybuilder type physique

 

Jeff "Left Hook" Lacy tore his left shoulder quad against Tsypko and permanently ****ed up his career

didn't Frank Bruno have injury problems aswell?

Now you say "musclebound", do you just mean muscular fighters or fighters who train extensively in weights?

 

The type of steroids a boxer would take, would assume would be the anabolics like anavar, winstrol, halotestin, the ones that build strength without adding much size or water retention. Some steroids actually help the joints, Deca, Equipose etc. I think winstrol is the only real one that dries your joints out, possibly suspension since it's somewhat similar being water based , and fukin dirty

When I was competing, the only time my joints would get sore (my knees) would be near the end and after Winstrol. Doing squats would be excruciating, like a severe grinding pain as you squatted down. It wasn't an injury though, but ya the joint was dried to hell.

 

You take steroids?

 

Is that a fact? Generally, NOT ALWAYS, muscular people are also stronger people, have stronger tendons as a result, so in a way doesn't make sense. But I can see that being the case too for some reason. More muscle you have, the more chances of muscle tears, not necessarily tendons.