I’m not sure if this is the appropriate thread, but I can’t start them and I thought it might fit, since clamping covers the issue of high-injury risk and also quick conditioning.
I was wondering if there’s a possibility that those who are more prone to injury might gain more quickly, as long as they’re able to stay just the right side of danger.
I have always healed well and suffered few noticeable injuries of any sort in my life. Except when I was an extremely heavy smoker, I almost never bruise (and perhaps that shows the damage smoking does). I can almost literally fall down a flight of concrete steps and barely bruise. I also heal quickly and according to my dentist, I have an unusually high pain threshold. (I’m not talking stoicism or bravery - I’m a total wimp when I feel pain - I just don’t seem to experience it at the same levels of trauma that many people do).
Possibly because of the subconscious sense of security this gives me, I probably went much further than I should in terms of intensity at an early stage. However as usual I never experienced any injury or pain whatsoever. On the other hand I gained fairly slowly - 1/2” or a touch more in over a year (yet gain I did, for all who doubt) but this slowed a lot in the second six months - it was one of those situations where the last bit of growth kind of crept up on me.
I wonder if this is evidence of the process of tissue breakdown and conditioning? In other words because I’m physiologically less prone to tissue breakdown I was not a fast gainer and conditioned quickly.
It would be interesting if anyone who is aware of the opposite tendency - to injure easily - had the opposite experience and gained quickly.