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Apr. 1st, 2012 01:04 pmShit or Hooray!
So a ton more research and reading on my program - and I'm completely ignoring the fact I've had an injury for over 6 weeks or so. I still don't know if I should rest until it's better or try to "work through it," though 2 weeks off/light didn't do it, and 3 weeks lifting didn't do it either. Rather than whine about it, I am taking it as an opportunity as my weights were kind of flat-lining anyway.
New program: 5/3/1 stays, but I'm doing a reset to drop all my weights, ALL, down 10% from my maxes. Said another way, instead of lifting for all my maxes I'm going to recompute my entire spreadsheet for 90% of those maxes and re-build (I may even start with a full 4 week session where I don't do more than 5/3/1 even when I can that first set).
I'm also going to stop the 5x10 light work at the end and switch to varying support work. I'm going to do more pull/chin-ups, vary what I do more and possibly do to failure (I really need resistance/weight on those). Same deal with dips, which I neglected.
Olympic more, possibly kettle bell. I wussed out of snatch/jerk thingys but think I may be grown-up enough to try these again. I can always start light. I want to do some fast compound movements that scare the shit out of me and get over it.
Career, life, and money stuff is even harder to think about than this. Even worse, you can't show off the results and those results are smaller while taking far more time.
Lifting is easy, research is hard.
So a ton more research and reading on my program - and I'm completely ignoring the fact I've had an injury for over 6 weeks or so. I still don't know if I should rest until it's better or try to "work through it," though 2 weeks off/light didn't do it, and 3 weeks lifting didn't do it either. Rather than whine about it, I am taking it as an opportunity as my weights were kind of flat-lining anyway.
New program: 5/3/1 stays, but I'm doing a reset to drop all my weights, ALL, down 10% from my maxes. Said another way, instead of lifting for all my maxes I'm going to recompute my entire spreadsheet for 90% of those maxes and re-build (I may even start with a full 4 week session where I don't do more than 5/3/1 even when I can that first set).
I'm also going to stop the 5x10 light work at the end and switch to varying support work. I'm going to do more pull/chin-ups, vary what I do more and possibly do to failure (I really need resistance/weight on those). Same deal with dips, which I neglected.
Olympic more, possibly kettle bell. I wussed out of snatch/jerk thingys but think I may be grown-up enough to try these again. I can always start light. I want to do some fast compound movements that scare the shit out of me and get over it.
Career, life, and money stuff is even harder to think about than this. Even worse, you can't show off the results and those results are smaller while taking far more time.
Lifting is easy, research is hard.
