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Bandwagonesque 
Sometimes I feel like my body is just falling apart. I was doing dips followed by chest flys in the gym today, when I felt pains in my shoulders (happens frequently). Doing squats, I feel pain in my knees. In fact, after cycling or jogging, I get bad hip pain and knee pain that limits my movement and prevents activity over the next day or two. When I stretch, I hear my bones and joints cracking. On the bench, I get the feeling that my twig like forearms and wrists are going to snap. Whenever I do a short, quick burst of activity, I find myself out of breath very easily. When I do long, sustained exercise (cycling), I'm OK, but it's the bursts from stationary to active that knock the wind out of me. If I were ever in a fight, I'd probably end up raw meat.
I try to work out, I try to be active but these small body injuries and pains that occur really limit my ability. Are my bones and joints just flawed?? Did I do something wrong to get to where I am now? Anything I can do to improve it, or should I just drift through life accepting the fact that I'm frail and I'll never be strong like bull?
Ahh, sounds like me when I work out. Took some time to get to the point where I could even work out regularly, but I still experience crazy joint crackage and the chronic pain below my waist still kills me. Can't do push ups, because of a missing/malformed bone in my wrist, fun times.
You can still get strong like ox, but you're gonna have to take it slower and do joint-strengthening exercises as well as regular ones. If something really hurts, especially if its a sharp pain, stop working that area and drag yourself to the doctor and have them make sure nothing is messed up there. If it turns out something is in fact messed up, switch to an alternate exercise for that area.
Or, I could try enlisting. I'll let the military make a man out of me.
