I can do videos with weights, and I have small defined muscles, but whenever I try to lift a box of soda (6 bottles) I get shooting pain in my arm for days. Will I never get stronger than I am now ?

If you want to get stronger, then train for strength. Its that simple.

Do you have hardcore tendonitis or something? Why does it do that?

Yeah, that sounds like a problem to me.

When I fail to lift something heavy, the only shooting pain I feel is in my pride.

cept a box of soda is not heavy! Must be a big problem... tell us your story brotha.

well, i think a box of soda is heavy .. it's 6 2-liter bottles, filled.

~25lbs..

I have pain! Lord, the pain. Oh, and my name. The shame, the shame to my name. From the pain. The strain on my name, the pain, ohhh when it pours it rains. Oh, Lord!

...Is this not the evangelical faith healing society? My bad. Must be the next room.

No but seriously, get that checked out NY. I mean I have always been disproportionately healthy and completely injury free, so I can't really ever relate to anything of this nature, but even so I'm pretty sure that's not how it's supposed to work.

Yep, about 25 lbs plus packaging

What type of videos? What weights? What kind of pain? Pain where exactly? Any prior injuries?

a lot of drs say that working out with 10 lbs of weight, 5 lbs each arm or leg, is sufficient. no, i hve had no previous injury or pain (less some knee pain when doing aerovics every day back in the mid 80's.)

are you all telling me that with my workout schedule, i should be able to shlep a box of soda or seltzer with no pain ?

I think you should see a sports medicine physician first of all. I'd also tell you that a lot of doctors know jack about working out.

Getting stronger has a lot to do wtih the central nervous system. The 10 and 5 lb weights, while at first might be heavy to the user, soon becomes pointless. To get stronger, you need to increase your intensity with the weights.

Be that as it may, it never got easy to use the set of 10’s that I have. That’s why I haven’t added more weight in a long time.

A lot of doctors are dumb, as evo said. And the ones who aren't, are being extremely free with the word "sufficient". So much so that I would question whether they understand its usage. Which leads us back to dumb.

Sort of. With your workout schedule and what it's been missing since adaptation set in, progressive overload, you most certainly should be able to shlep a box of soda or seltzer with no pain.

My 8 year old cousin can move "a box of soda" (in quotes to mean something of that shape, size and weight - in her case mostly boxes full of books) with no pain. And not all that much effort. She weighs 55 lbs. Not trying to be a jerk, here, but rather to emphasize that you should go get it checked out.

It'll never get easy unless you up the weight. Adaptation needs to be forced not gently coerced, I up weight every time I've managed to complete my set number of reps without reaching failure