Unexpected injury

[rolf]

I’m a newbie to Transformetrics. I have John’s IPR book and now also his M7 book which was recommended to me by responders to my first post (thanks’ for all the informative and kind answers).

To get a feeling for the method(s) I started out by tensing my whole body as advised on page 109 in IPR. However after practising this, several times a day, for about a week I injured my left pec-muscle. It was very painful and I had to take painkillers. I have now recovered almost completely but it took several weeks. I must say I did not expect this. The reason that I begun to investigate Transformetrics was that I was afraid to hurt myself if I continue with my weightlifting (I’m 60 years old).

Now I wonder what happened to me, what did I do wrong? Did I tens my muscles too intensely or did I practising too often, or what?

Now I’m a bit hesitant how to continue. Any suggestions and help are much appreciated.

/Rolf

[Howard Wallace]

Welcome to the forum.

You may wish to practice at a lower intensity for safety. We all have personal balance points we find, and they may change given our time in life and or goals.

Did your muscle cramp to cause the injury? If so, there may be a nutritional cause.

[blackbelt]

rolf,

My first thought would be that you pushed too hard too soon, which is normal for a newbie.

Once you're certain that the muscle has recuperated, try EASING back into it. Use lower levels of tension initially. You might also try to do the exercise(s) less often for a while. When YOU decide all is well, and you're ready, ramp up your training gradually.

[MikeNY]

Sounds like blackbelt is right on in his advise. Maybe before you start that full body Isometric you should just focus in the M7 and get use to DVR exercises and then add Isometric Powerlflexs from IPR. Once your doing this suff, you learn control and when to back off, after just a couple weeks (wait until that muscle is healed to start) you'll have the control.

When I first started doing the M7 Half Squat I couldn't tense the leg muscles or knee while doing the exercise, it took me awhile to learn that muscle tensing for that exercise.

Hope all is well with you and all the best.