Firstly thanks all for the comments re my father in law. Unfortunately the old fella passed away quietly on Sunday night, he’d been fighting the cancer for quite a while so in many ways it was a bit of a relief that he was not in pain any more. Tough for my wife though as she has lost both parents in the last 18 months.
In terms of my knee, my 20 rep squat program has come to a premature end. Tried to do squats again on Monday and my knee started to give me the same sharp pain again. I think it just needs a bit of a rest, if that doesn’t do the trick off to the specialist I will go.
Training on Monday just gone,
Squats
60x5
100x5
120x10 (I dropped the weight a little to 120 for my 20 rep set, got to rep 8 and the twinge happened, hoped it would stop, it didn’t, got worse so I stopped.)
120x5 (Was cranky that my knee hurt so thought I’d try again, got tot eh 5th rep, pain again so gave up on the squats for teh day)
Standing Military Press
50x8
50x8
50x8
Chins
BW(102kg)x8
BWx8
BWx7
Dips
BWx15
Bwx10
Tricep Pushdown
30x10
30x10
Seated Concentration curl
12.5x10
12.5x10
That’s it. Just going to play things by ear for the rest of this week and let my knee have a break from squatting, pain only starts at the very bottom of the squat position so can probably stil do deads/cleans. Will have a go later today.
[quote]Burnesy wrote:
Firstly thanks all for the comments re my father in law. Unfortunately the old fella passed away quietly on Sunday night, he’d been fighting the cancer for quite a while so in many ways it was a bit of a relief that he was not in pain any more. Tough for my wife though as she has lost both parents in the last 18 months.
Thank you all for the support, I really do appreciate it. missed yesterday just too much going on. Trained today and going to give the gym a break till next week now.
Today,
Power Cleans
77.5x3
77.5x3
77.5x3
77.5x3
77.5x3
77.5x3
[quote]mday wrote:
Good to see you in the gym Burnesy!
Take some time, get things taken care of, deal with the issues at hand, and then come back to lifting. This is a marathon not a 100 meter dash.
How was the knee today?
mday[/quote]
Knee was fine with the cleans. Only really hurts at the bottom position of the squat, giving it a rest for a bit and see how it is next week. Will probably give some leg presses a go next week and then ease back into some overhead squats the following week.
[quote]1Geech wrote:
Burnsey, are you squatting high-bar or low-bar. Just thinking about your knees, and that the latter might be better for them.[/quote]
Unfortunately I squat with a low bar position already, so no joy there. As I replied above going to give squats a rest for a week. When I get back to them I’ll ease in by doing some overhead squats for a week to see how that goes before moving back to some heavier stuff with the back squat. Fingers crossed after a break things will be okay.
You have been training very intensely, so I hope that the time off is all that you needed. Sometimes a minor injury gets exaggerated in that kind of context, so with luck you will be back good as new!
[quote]1Geech wrote:
You have been training very intensely, so I hope that the time off is all that you needed. Sometimes a minor injury gets exaggerated in that kind of context, so with luck you will be back good as new![/quote]
Geech,
I have taken some time off. With everything else that has been going on seemed a good option. Have done a couple of light training sessions but nothing worth writing up, also have been doing a bit of interval training on the C2 rower and stationary bike. Alot of my aches and pains have dissapeared and I’m looking forward to getting back into things next Monday.
One more thing to add to my list of what has been a pretty ordinary June is that I have to take my dog to the vet this afternoon to be put down, poor old girl has cancer and is now in a bit of pain, so time to man up and fdo the right thing, doesn’t make it any easier.
Hang in there Burnesy. Sorry about your dog. Never easy to put one down…I’ve had to a couple times.
I can relate to your busy schedule and having to miss workouts.
Friday arvo with my dog was one of, if not the toughest, half hour of my life. Thanks for the kind words guys.
Tough couple of weeks but over now and revelling in what the future holds. The time off sees to have healed up the niggles and I feel pretty good.
Looking at doing a Rippetoe type training program for the next 6 weeks with a bit of added bicep work courtesy of CT’s tips a few weeks back. No Biceps today just compounds.
Back in the gym. Really quick workout that I liked. Short and sweet 28 minutes all up.