{"id":184679,"date":"2019-11-06T08:35:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T16:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=184679"},"modified":"2019-11-06T08:46:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T16:46:16","slug":"let-pain-guide-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/06\/let-pain-guide-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Pain Guide You"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Pain isn’t bad, it’s one of our wisest and most valuable instruments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The basic notion; let pain guide you. Pain will help you adjust your form, approach, technique, philosophy, and way of living. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

How to discover “good form” <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If a certain movement or exercise causes you negative pain, adjust your form until you don’t feel bad pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Back pain when doing conventional deadlift guided me to switch to a sumo stance (much better). <\/li>
  2. Foot pain (plantar fasciatus) led me to NOT wear shoes with soles. I wear minimalist shoes with 0 padding, and now all my foot pain has gone away (look for “kayk water shoes” on Amazon). <\/li>
  3. Doing pull-ups with thumbs facing forward, and doing chinups with thumbs facing towards me was causing me elbow pain. I switched to a “neutral grip” and no elbow or joint pain since. <\/li>
  4. Bench pressing with wide grip caused me shoulder pain. I switched to dumbell press, no pain since then! <\/li>
  5. Barbell overhead press caused me shoulder pain, switched to dumbell overhead press and no pain since. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Dietary changes <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
    1. Eating any dairy (cheese, butter, etc) was causing me stomach pain. I stopped all dairy, and no stomach pains since then! <\/li>
    2. Coconut products, milk, and oil causes me stomach pains and a bit of nausea. Now I avoid coconut products for myself. <\/li>
    3. Coffee after dinner caused me insomnia, headaches, pain. No more coffee or caffeine\/stimulants after dinner anymore, and no more pain. <\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Pain isn’t bad, it’s one of our wisest and most valuable instruments. The basic notion; let pain guide you. Pain will help you adjust your form, approach, technique, philosophy, and way of living.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":184656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/D33A8594-33B9-4783-8E29-B7FB0A69C5B7.jpeg?fit=938%2C1280&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184679"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184687,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184679\/revisions\/184687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}