[quote]novaeer wrote:
[quote]undesired08 wrote:
Thanks, mrodock.
I was kind of worried going into the gym tonight for dead’s and squats, but I knew I was keeping it on the lighter side. The warmups for deads felt good, no pain in my knee. 345 felt heavier than it should, but I was ok with that. And I actually had to put a little effort into 415, but I could have pulled 5 if I had chalked up.
I did get one little twinge during dead’s, but unlike last week, I could actually pull(that’s a big plus). I knew pause squats were going to be painful, but I needed to move some moderate weight to feel good about making the meet in may. After 385 x3 @8, I decided to just feel out 435 for one or two reps. If one felt good I would do a second, but not a third no matter how easy it was.
I felt a pretty good twinge in my knee about 3 inches up, but it quickly subsided. It felt better than it has been, but I still walk with a noticeable limp. The brace during the day is helping, but I’m still not 100% sure about May. Looking at my numbers right now to what they were last month, I feel like crap. I will wait till after the Volume cycle to make my decision.
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Do you feel that you have to pull from the floor to improve your dead? If your meet is coming up soon, you might not want to drop them, but if you have time you could sub in rack pulls and RDLs or stiff-leg DLs as your main lifts. Just a thought. Also, with the knee do you think you might be getting on your toes a bit on either the squat or DL and that might be causing the problem?[/quote]
I feel better, to a certain extent, pulling from the floor. I think it could be from focusing pressure too much on the balls of my feet during deadlifts. I have had a tendency of getting up on my toes with heavier weight, but my knee was “fine”. It wasn’t till I really started changing my dl technique that this started. But, it could also be a hip issue manifesting itself in my knee due to a change of gait.
So many people have said, go get it checked out. For many things, doctor’s are great. But when I am injured, I am not going to some jackass that will say “yep, your knee is injured”. Well, no shit, Sherlock. Unless it’s a very good sports medicine guy/gal, I don’t have much time for them. Almost 15years ago, two of them told me that when I was 40, I would have to walk with a cane. I ain’t on no stinking cane yet, and 40 is in my rearview mirror. All I’m saying is I may be tweaked, but I ain’t no “broke-dick” (my Army brothers will know what I mean). I’m thinking my line in the sand will be 560 @9 for a single. If I can’t, I probably won’t do the meet.
