Build/Maintain Muscle Lifting Light Wts

Training Injuries
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Sup to all, and happy new year.

The overall question here is whether or not I can maintain my mass, or possibly add mass lifting light weights for the majority of my workouts? And if so, is there any specific regiment or routine I should follow?

Background:

My left Infraspinatus has been bothering me for a few months now. I took off a few weeks from training and when I came back I tweaked it during my first back workout. Since then its been getting inflamed during chest(mostly incline presses), back, and shoulder workouts.

I don’t believe theres a high grade tear but rather bad tendonitis/tendonosis and some microtears. I’ve been on TRT for 4-5 months now, 200mg every 2 weeks roughly. I’ve put on some good muscle mass, although I know a lot is water retention. Test went up from around 200 to 1100±.

Never the less, I have gone up my lifting weight across the board. I don’t use gear though, just test for the moment…I am considering Deca in the future because of the tendon and ligament healing properties.

I have been getting prolotherapy treatments every 4 weeks or so and it was helping but I feel that the shoulder recovery has regressed since the last injection. I think I’m going too heavy and need to revise my workout for a while until my shoulder and r-cuff heal.

I also get A.R.T treatments every 1-3 weeks which has really helped a lot in breaking up scar tissue in various areas of my body. I have some nagging injuries which im addressing but the shoulder is a real issue and I want to address and take care of it while I’m still young and before it’s too late; I DON’T want surgery.

So with the information I have provided (and if needed I can provide more to help in answering my question properly) can this be accomplished and is it a good route to take in healing/recovering injured muscles and tendons?

I’m knowledgeable enough to know that reducing the load to let the body heal is always a good thing if the body is asking for it but I like to get the input of other guys in the trenches. I prefer less bro-science if possible but I am open to anyone’s opinions, so long as they are respectable about it. Of course, there will always be a troll here n’ there;

Thanks in advance.

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[quote]LB_Patriot wrote:
Sup to all, and happy new year.

The overall question here is whether or not I can maintain my mass, or possibly add mass lifting light weights for the majority of my workouts? And if so, is there any specific regiment or routine I should follow?

Background:

My left Infraspinatus has been bothering me for a few months now. I took off a few weeks from training and when I came back I tweaked it during my first back workout. Since then its been getting inflamed during chest(mostly incline presses), back, and shoulder workouts.

I don’t believe theres a high grade tear but rather bad tendonitis/tendonosis and some microtears. I’ve been on TRT for 4-5 months now, 200mg every 2 weeks roughly. I’ve put on some good muscle mass, although I know a lot is water retention. Test went up from around 200 to 1100±.

Never the less, I have gone up my lifting weight across the board. I don’t use gear though, just test for the moment…I am considering Deca in the future because of the tendon and ligament healing properties.

I have been getting prolotherapy treatments every 4 weeks or so and it was helping but I feel that the shoulder recovery has regressed since the last injection. I think I’m going too heavy and need to revise my workout for a while until my shoulder and r-cuff heal.

I also get A.R.T treatments every 1-3 weeks which has really helped a lot in breaking up scar tissue in various areas of my body. I have some nagging injuries which im addressing but the shoulder is a real issue and I want to address and take care of it while I’m still young and before it’s too late; I DON’T want surgery.

So with the information I have provided (and if needed I can provide more to help in answering my question properly) can this be accomplished and is it a good route to take in healing/recovering injured muscles and tendons?

I’m knowledgeable enough to know that reducing the load to let the body heal is always a good thing if the body is asking for it but I like to get the input of other guys in the trenches. I prefer less bro-science if possible but I am open to anyone’s opinions, so long as they are respectable about it. Of course, there will always be a troll here n’ there;

Thanks in advance. [/quote]

The answer is yes for x amount of time. Any new stimulus will promote muscle growth, bodybuilders notoriously train with lighter weights for higher reps and slower controlled movements resulting in greater hypertrophy of slow type and fast twitch intermediate fibers along with non-contractile tissues. The downfall is bodybuilders typically never block their training schedules so they plateau at a certain point.

Are you doing cuff exercises?