Joint Recovery and Supplements

This whole week I haven't been to the gym once. Its horribly boring. I recently mentioned I have a knee injury and how I have not been working out my legs because of it. I also recently developed a small injury in my left shoulder. I figured with all these things adding up I should give my body/joints/cartilage some time to heal up. If i'm not back to normal by this Sunday I'll be seeing a specialist. 

Working out (for me at least) started as a way to boost my self-confidence, then became a hobby, then a routine, then a habit and now its a part of how I identify with who I am. Not working out has been weird, I have a literal fear that I will look in the mirror one day and all my development will be gone. Obviously this isn't going to just 'happen'. However, knowing that if I don't properly rest my injuries may worsen or become permanent makes these fears a potential reality. So its worth it in the end.

Your cartilage and joints tear and heal kind of like your muscles do when you work out. They CAN get stronger by training them, but obviously wont if you continue to train while they are injured. In all my time training I had never considered or thought to take supplements for your joints other then fish oil. Fish oil, from off the top of my head just helps to lubricate your joints to prevent some of the wear and tear. After some research online, reading forums/articles and youtube videos I found out I should at least be taking  Glucosamine. Glucosamine helps heal your cartilage.

I bought TriFlex Extra Strength and have been taking 3 pills a day for the past 3 days.I probably wont see improvement for 2 weeks at least. Along with Glucosamine, TriFlex has MSM, Collagen and some herbs.

So all-in-all I take two multivitamins daily (morning/night), two fish oil pills (morning/night), three TriFlex pills (morning/afternoon/night) and 5g's of creatine mono hydrate...which I have only been taking for 2 weeks now.