Testing Strength: Is This Nuts?

[ySplendidCrafts9]

I was just wondering if anyone else tests their strength all the time? Lately my left hand has been twitching, what feels like 24/7, but I can't see it. So, I keep testing my strength and trying to find the twitching. Is this nuts? Why does twitching in the hand freak me out the most?? Does anyone else get more anxious with their hands, fingers & thumb twitch???

 

[DesertKnight]

I've never strength tested but I had a twitch in my foot that scared the hell out of me. Instead of testing strength, I was obsessed with staring at it in different kinds of light to count how many times it twitched. It also freaked me out because there were numerous ones I could see but not feel. Why it bothered me more than all the billion others, I don't know. It was one twitch I couldn't ignore. Yes, I am as crazy as you...

 

[MarioMasher]

Almost all of us did strength testing at first. Over time you will realize that this is the worst possible thing you can do to your body and you will stop doing it. But yes at first it is like a drug. Patience young grasshopper.

 

[ShannyB63]

Hey chez count me in as crazy....I nearly ran into a tree staring at my tongue looking for twitches and atrophy... ...and I have strength tested in the past it just makes you have more pain and actually makes u twitch more I think...

 

[christinasgirl123]

My neighbour cought me in the act of heel walking in my garden.....any more questions????????????????????????????

 

[Pinhanker]

Strength Test? Does that mean like when I was walking down the stairs at my hotel backwards on my toes?Or when i challenged friends to see who could stand on their toes longer? ( I always lost )Or when I went to the gym and loaded the calf machine up with every weight I could find and repped out as much as I could? Nah, I never strength test.LOL Im the strength test champ

 

[BobJazzy]

Chez,I had the same thing happen to my hand. It started twitching on the top of my hand between my thumb and index. Most of the time, I couldn't feel them at all. Sometimes I could see big thumpers in there. But I would get that twitch every few minutes. The hand twitch has been going on for 3 months now. Today, I still get them there but they are much less frequent. Nothing to worry about. -Matt

 

[MsMaverick]

Crazy? Hmmmmmm Yup! Like Cap I almost killed myself trying to walk downstairs backwards (who the heck came up with that anyways?) Toe and heel walked until my calves and shins were killing me. Found a strength test video on line and had my kids help me do it. And bought a material tape measure and a small permanent marker to mark spots to measure repeatedly (yup, thats crazy). All this in the first couple of months, then I realized I was making myself crazy-yup, self inflicted craziness. Sooner or later you will reach a point where you just say "Oh hell, who cares" and move on.

 

[Whatworry]

ocd as a condition involves such compulsions as self soothing. do you best to break the loop, but you sure arent alone here.

 

[Lovitch123]

Hola !Chez8 stay cool , I know twitching in hands can be annoying, I have continuous fascics for 1 months but know they very much less frequent !! And to answer your question... I'm crazy as you , look what I buy yesterday to test strength in my forearm and fingers :I'm guitare player and with that object you can make a real workout of youre fingers )

 

[Whatworry]

In December I found this cute website where someone wrote a 'guide for testing if you have ***'. It was a series of progressively stupid self tests designed to get the point across to you that you were wasting time doing stupid self test but still couldn't accept the results. I did them all, including hopping up the stairs!Afterwards, I realized that one was kind of dangerous without holding on the hand rail!Some time I might add a test 'self-levitation':If you can do this test, you definitely don't have ***.