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Progress vs Injuries. Is there a sweet spot?

For me this seems to be a cycle that tends to repeat over and over. I start training and making progress, I feel motivated, I push myself and see my body responding well until one day I suddenly start experiencing pain. It only takes one exercise with bad form and maybe a bit of additional weight to break you.

In my case, it's usually tendons that give away. And they are soooo hard to recover.

Right now I'm doing rehab for my patellar tendon which I got injured doing cossack squats around two months ago. Last week I started feeling pain in my shoulder (probably my rotator cuff again) and two days ago a bit of pain appeared in my elbow (tennis elbow maybe?).

I've read in a post here that tendons take more time to adjust. Should I take it down a notch?

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Progress vs Injuries. Is there a sweet spot?