u/Don_Mask

Hello, so I have no knowledge of this sort of thing so I'm unsure if this is legit or not. But I got hit up on IG from a student who pitched this project to me and essentially its a project that helps people build an extra income via social networking and brand partnerships. They have two parts to their model which is selling and mentorship, selling is basically having your own business and the project itself has connections to various brands and you would basically be the middleman between the brand and a customer. Mentorship I think is just mentoring people how to do this or to prepare doing this.

The thing is there's no fee you have to pay, there's seemingly no strings attached, and I just hopped on a zoom call where they just said a bunch of the same stuff and then asked when I was next available to have a mentor come on a zoom call on that one and just talk to me and give me a book(?) to read so that they know I would be well versed or prepared or willing to do this like not lazy enough to not read a book? I'm not really sure. So I might hop on that to see any more info about this?

Some other info is that it's an ecommerce project, partnering with brands/companies providing exclusive products to generate income by connecting customers to that. One thing is when they first reached out they said "I'm working on a project" but this seems to not be owned by her and rather a big group of people. Another thing is the website seems pretty legit but I do notice it doesn't really have anything in regards specifically mentioning what I've just said and also if they had partnerships with big brands wouldn't they showcase them on the page?

I mean I got reached out to by a student, with a genuine Instagram, who pitched this project, no fees or anything to start or to continue, the only thing that seems suspicious to me is the website but I'm not well versed in this stuff so I have no clue. I was just wondering if anyone else had any thoughts about this? There doesn't seem to be a single lick of info about this site or this project anywhere online, not sure if that's just because they're a relatively small project currently.

Hello, I wanted to see if this was normal regarding just sports injuries in general.

Basically I played volleyball yesterday, and as I was playing the left side of my neck started hurting a bit (kind of like when you sleep on the wrong side of the bed) which sometimes happens to me just regularly, but as I kept playing it got worse, most notably when I jumped to block a ball and whenever I did rapid movements of my head like flicking it up to get the hair out my face. Eventually it got super bad and I sat out, and now it's the day after and any use of it is really painful, enough to make me groan from the pain not sure what to compare it too but it's pretty bad, so I've been bedridden since moving/standing up requires me to use my neck/trap muscles to hold up my head.

This happened to me before, also during volleyball but with my back instead, same level of pain and since standing up also uses your back, I was also bedridden then since getting up was the worst thing ever.

I'm not sure if this type of injury is normal, I'm assuming it's from not warming up (or not properly) and/or not stretching (which yeah I don't do since I'm young [18] and I just am too lazy which I know is a bad excuse). But even if this is normal, I'm not sure if this level is normal, like the pain is genuinely horrible and I believe last time with my back it lasted quite a while like a couple days.

So far I've taken some Advil, haven't ate yet as I can't get up but I plan to, and I've been using salonpas patches to try and help.

Any ideas how to prevent this next time like any sort of routine or practice? Before (with my back) I'm pretty sure it was due to lack of hydration and lack of stretching/warmup, but this time it's probably just due to the latter since I was pretty well hydrated. Not to sound egotistical or ignorant but since I'm young I never really warmup or stretch which I'm assuming is the reason for these injuries but obviously I will have to start doing it if I've gotten this type of injury twice now. I am scared that even if I warmup properly or stretch well though I still might get this injury and if I do, then I won't even know what the cause would be.

And there have been other times where I feel like I've been less hydrated, also never stretched or warmed up well beforehand yet I was perfectly fine, not sure what makes today any different like is there a specific reason besides lack of stretching?

Hello, I know this isn't directly about volleyball but I just wanted to ask and see if this is normal.

Basically I played volleyball yesterday, and as I was playing the left side of my neck started hurting a bit which sometimes happens to me just regularly, but as I kept playing it got worse, most notably when I jumped to block a ball and whenever I did rapid movements of my head like flicking it up to get the hair out my face. Eventually it got super bad and I sat out, and now it's the day after and any use of it is really painful, enough to make me groan from the pain not sure what to compare it too but it's pretty bad, so I've been bedridden since moving/standing up requires me to use my neck/trap muscles to hold up my head.

This happened to me before, also during volleyball but with my back instead, same level of pain and since standing up also uses your back, I was also bedridden then.

I'm not sure if this type of injury is normal, I'm assuming it's from not warming up (or not properly) and/or not stretching (which yeah I don't do since I'm young and I just am too lazy which I know is a bad excuse). But even if this is normal, I'm not sure if this level is normal, like the pain is genuinely horrible and I believe last time with my back it lasted quite a while like a couple days.

So far I've taken some Advil, haven't ate yet as I can't get up but I plan to, and I've been using salonpas patches to try and help.

Any ideas how to prevent this next time like any sort of routine or practice? Before (with my back) I'm pretty sure it was due to lack of hydration and lack of stretching/warmup, but this time it's probably just due to the latter since I was pretty well hydrated.