Over the past few weeks, I've developed some pretty intense pain in my left wrist that limits my motion when I turn my wrist up and down, but I've just been plowing through it and have been able to maintain my regimen.
I think it's just some tendinitis because I've had similar pain in my left elbow before from doing curls and in that case, I just reduced the weight for a couple of weeks and it dissipated.
That process has been coming and going for years.
I've also got a muscle in my back that keeps pulling from either overhead presses and bench- nothing excruciating, just a dull pain that comes and goes, but always occurs in the same place.
Today, I coughed in the car and actually strained it just by coughing.
So, I got to thinking that I should probably deload as a result and then I was reviewing my schedule (I keep it in a notebook) and realized that I haven't taken more than 5 days off from weightlifting in over 4 years and that was just for family vacations out of town and around Christmas and normally those were only 2-4 day breaks.
I have no intention of taking a full week off, but I did lift the same amount of reps today that I normally would, but at around 50%-60% of my 1RM and it felt pretty good.
I know there's no hard and fast rule about how to deload effectively, but I'm curious as to what you guys do, if you deload at all.
If you do, do you continue to lift during your deload weeks or do you just not lift at all?
I have trouble just walking away from the gym altogether for the week.
@antlfgrnd
@PowellVolz
@Orange_Figjam
I think it's just some tendinitis because I've had similar pain in my left elbow before from doing curls and in that case, I just reduced the weight for a couple of weeks and it dissipated.
That process has been coming and going for years.
I've also got a muscle in my back that keeps pulling from either overhead presses and bench- nothing excruciating, just a dull pain that comes and goes, but always occurs in the same place.
Today, I coughed in the car and actually strained it just by coughing.
So, I got to thinking that I should probably deload as a result and then I was reviewing my schedule (I keep it in a notebook) and realized that I haven't taken more than 5 days off from weightlifting in over 4 years and that was just for family vacations out of town and around Christmas and normally those were only 2-4 day breaks.
I have no intention of taking a full week off, but I did lift the same amount of reps today that I normally would, but at around 50%-60% of my 1RM and it felt pretty good.
I know there's no hard and fast rule about how to deload effectively, but I'm curious as to what you guys do, if you deload at all.
If you do, do you continue to lift during your deload weeks or do you just not lift at all?
I have trouble just walking away from the gym altogether for the week.
@antlfgrnd
@PowellVolz
@Orange_Figjam
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