I can’t help but think of this exchange
FWIW, that was one of the greatest things about Fortitude Training IMHO is that exercises were selected to work around equipment availability and nagging injuries.
I know there are readers here with more kinks in their armor than I have in mine whose philosophy has them lifting despite injury.
Honestly, I don’t always heed my own advice as I currently have some tendonitis that should see me lay-off back work and climbing and regrettable as it is the same tendonitis affect my ability to back- and front squat. If only SSB was an option…
But in general I try to think that a better approach might be to not continually perform an irritating exercise as that pattern of behaviour is what has brought on many of the chronic overuse injuries that many of us deal with regularly. Continuing to “solve” this by ignoring the feedback for years can lead to an inability to perform that exercise forever.
Injuries that could resolve in a matter of weeks might be perpetuated and worsened for months by refusing to work around the injury (via exercise selection) or laying off a given muscle group for a while.
And I just wrote all of that for myself and will now mull over it…