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44 ENGLISH FOR HEALTH-CARE PROVIDERS
Brent: Hi!
Lisa: A lot of men want to play sports, feel like they’re athletes, and they’re terrified that
they’re going to mess up their backs, their leg, their knee, their rotator cuff. What’s a guy
to do?
Brent: Well, obviously, I always promote exercise. I’m glad to see people who are out there
doing physical activity. What men need to know is to know when to stop, or when to slow
down, or when to change their exercise pattern. You really have to listen to your body, and
that’s what most men don’t do.
Lisa: Sometimes you need to work through a pain though, and a lot of men seem to want
to tough it out.
Brent: Yeah, working through pain is a misnomer. That’s almost never the case. Some-
times if you have a little muscular pain, then working through it doing some stretching, and
that type of thing is good. But if you have a problem like a sore knee, you’ve hurt your knee;
you’ve run too far on your knee, working through that is not going to help; it’s only going to
make the problem worse.
Lisa: How can tennis players avoid tennis elbow?
Brent: Oh, tennis elbow is really a modern problem. And, it’s because we’re hitting the ten-
nis ball much harder. And we’re all about speed when we’re playing tennis. And the prob-
lem with tennis elbow is that the force that’s transmitted when the ball hits the racket is
transmitted into your elbow and causes an inflammation of the tendons around your elbow.
And so what you need to do to prevent that, if it’s a reoccurring problem for you is look at
your racket, use a lightweight racket as much as possible. Look and see how your racket is
strung. If it is very tightly strung it’s transmitting a lot of force from that ball hit. That’s going
to make tennis elbow much worse; so having looser strings on your tennis racket will help.
And then really look at the surface on which your playing tennis. Using a softer surface, clay
or grass, is going to reduce the amount of tennis elbow that you have.
Lisa: And be better on your knees as well.
Brent: Absolutely.
Lisa: Now in terms of pre-workout protocols to make your survival of your own workout
better, what should we all do? And especially if we warm up men.
Brent: A warm-up is really important; making sure that your muscles are warm and are
ready to begin exercise, that’s important. And that’ why stretching could have some benefit,
‘cause it can help to get your muscles warmed up. And when you’re doing a stretch to warm
up your muscles, you need to stretch that muscle and hold that stretch for about thirty sec-
onds so then that muscle is getting warmed up and prepared for the exercise to come.
Lisa: If you’re sore after a workout, it could mean that you, you know, you broke through, you
connect to the next level, or does it always mean that you’ve done something wrong?