Minor injury effects on strength

[Type-IIx]

I thought Bpc-157 helps heal injury as well?

Yes, it promotes healing. It'd be an excellent compound to use post-surgery and/or in combination with corticosteroids post-injury to ameliorate some of the harms of corticosteroid use.

This OP is talking about using it as a prophylactic so that he continue overusing and furthering soft tissue damage, instead of treating the problem at its root (with rest, changes to exercise selection, loading, progression, etc.)

 

[Highly ecto]

A short-term decline is a lot better than long-term injury requiring surgery, no? There's a muscle memory phenomenon, your strength will come back quickly (far more rapidly than it took to gain initially) as will size. In fact, if this is due to overuse (very likely), there can be a supercompensation effect (a rebound) that takes weeks to materialize. Months sometimes with connective tissue involvement.

The problem with the BPC-157 is it just masks the injury rather than treating it at its root.

l would be listening to the advice you have been getting. l had the same mild pain with the same exercises your talking about 14 or 15 months ago, an no pain on above head presses. l kept training and pushing through the pain for nearly 6 months because l didn't want to lose what l had gained. initially l could do sets of 10 pull ups with weight hanging on me, by the end of the 6 months l could not even hang on a pull up bar, or even attempt lateral raises. Now l am 8 months into rehab, l have had cortisone injections, constant physio and no upper body lifting at all. Even with all this rehab and rest l get bad pain picking up a kettle of water, reaching for something on a shelf or even sliding my arm through my shirt sleeves. l am probably a lot older than you and know my case is a lot more severe than yours, but l started where you are and refused to listen to the pain until it was to late. Don't make the same mistake.

 

[RzSco]

I'm doing light dumbbell curls with about 60% of my usual weight but like 25 reps.
No pain at all. Safe to keep doing that?

 

[Highly ecto]

I'm doing light dumbbell curls with about 60% of my usual weight but like 25 reps.
No pain at all. Safe to keep doing that?

l did the complete opposite of what you should do with an injury like this and are paying for it, but logic would suggest that some rest followed by doing exercises that course no pain would beneficial for wellbeing, settling and healing of your injury. There are guys on here with a lot more experience in that field than me though, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.

 

[skinnyman]

Did it help? How much did you use?

 

[Deezznutzz]

Take 30 days off. Restart easier.

 

[RzSco]

I used 5mg of BPC over a total of 9 days, it was supposed to be 10 days but dosing 0.1ml in an RDS syringe is hard. Tried the problem exercises again:


Lateral raise: no pain and magically added 10 reps. Weird.

Chin up: slight discomfort at the top, but no pain. Only 13 reps possible so lost some strength. Forearms feel "tight" after but not painful.

Bicep curl: doesn't hurt but I can only do 6 reps until my form breaks down and my elbow start to move around.


I accuse swinging the dumbells around on ego-driven bicep curls as being the culprit of this injury so I will focus more on form. Going from 18 cheated reps back to 6 at the same weight is utterly brutal though.



So 10 days might be enough if you catch your injuries early and rest and throw peptides at them. If they come back I'll try 20 days next time, then 30 etc etc.