Wanted to reply that it was nice to see you post your workouts again and I just post mine ahahah
Do you really think youāllr egress after all these deficit deads, hip thrust, high pulls leg curls and 90% work? No you wonāt!
Thatās a fat, long session, and it seems to me thatās a lot of good work and weight for someone whoās doubting himself. Why straight-arms pulldown if I may ask?
It was a good session. The bench session before was even more on point. This needs a little tweaking. Not sure what Iām not happy with.
You may, one reason is that there are suitable cables at both ends of where the platforms are in my gym so its available often enough for me to sketch out the session. Second, a decent way to hit my lats without stressing my elbow. Third decent MMC. Fourth lever carry-over. Fifth I donāt activate my lats too well during deadlifts Iām hoping thisāll help.
No they arenāt if you look at recent vids, as well as personal feelings when I know the bar is moving away sometimes. Just wrong mental cues. I have worked on it. Probably too low of hips and for sure not enough sitting back in my hammies and taking the slack hard enough
You have a good understanding of nutrition and how these things work.
What youāre seeing in the mirror right now is a point in time reflection, not more or less. It doesnāt mean more or less than what youāre making it out to be.
I have about no knowledge at all of what youāre going through. I just want to say youāre a strong person for taking on the fight. All the best mate.
Neither do I as it seems to develop further and further used to be standard orthorexia. Now Example: I woke up from a dream where I was eating candy nonstop for quite some time and when I woke up I was getting ready to rush to the bathroom to stick my fingers down my throat. I didnāt, obviously. But itās not ideal that that sequence of events could even transpire. Or that that was my subconscious reaction.
An amazing bit of Jekyll and Hyde considering the new sub-forum replaced the Paul Carter one, where bro science was celebrated.
Bro Science was pretty awesome when it was coming from the Golden Era guys like Arnold, Vince G, LaLanne, Grimek, and everyone else with an amazing physique and strength to match.
Iāll admit that itās possible my interpretation is off but casually browsing it has become my understanding that when the term bro-science is used there it doesnāt mean āthing that works because resultsā but also seemingly contains not only dissenting views but also dissenting views supported by other studies.
These call-outs seem to be sidestepped with āwhat about health?ā but I donāt want to spend the time there arguing. I have respect for T-nation. Theyāve been friendly to me, and amenable. I donāt want to make that sub-forum less of an enjoyment to them by being there debating. They seem content with what they are doing so Iām happy to leave them be.
But I just had to vent that I donāt like how ābro-scienceā or to use another term āempirical evidenceā is somehow a bad thing.
Concur in all parts. Iām not going to tell someone theyāre lifting weights wrong. Thatās just dumb. But itās also dumb to discount demonstrable effects simply because there isnāt yet an academic study that confirms what we already know.
Rest But helped a mate move which might not have done my elbow a lot of favours
Sunday 2020-11-08
AM
Exercise
Set
Reps
Weight
Rest
A. Press
-6
10
Bar
-5
8
30
-4
6
35
-3
6
40
-2
4
42
-1
4
45
0
1-2
50
1
6
40
3-5
2
6
40
3
6
40
B1. Pull-up
1
6
60
?
2
6
60
3
6
60
4
5
5
5
B2. Push Press
1
6
50
?
2
6
50
3
5
50
hit chin
4
6
50
C1. Dips
1
5
bw+20
90s between antagonist exercise
2
5
bw+20
3
5
bw+20
4
5
bw+20
5
5
bw+20
C2. DB Row
1
8
32
alternating arms
2
8
32
between dip sets
3
8
32
If I let the straps do all the work on holding the DB these movements were fine. But, Iām thinking about dialing back (no pun intended) on back work even more until my elbow feels fine but reading up on it it seems as if recovery is months long so might be worth continuing to seek movements that are not making things worse primarily.
Being as disciplined as I can with my Theraband Flexbar, Voodoo Floss and massaging. Going to seek out an acupuncturist too, maybe. Is acupunture worthwhile for tendonitis (elbow) @j4gga2?
PM
Climbing, nice easy session. Mostly trying to coach a friend whom incidentally needs no coaching and just needs to be more sure of herself. Got her to climb two grades higher than her previous best in a single two hour session.
When I had my first bout of elbow tendonitis I wound up taking a good bit of time off from any traditional pulling movements as simply dialing back wasnāt doing anything in terms of recovery.
I wound up using bands as my only source of back work by looping the band around my wrist and doing rows/pulldowns that way. Iād really focus on trying to get the muscle to cramp up in that contracted position. I think it was a solid maintenance approach that allowed my elbow enough lee-way with a manual labor job to get back on the right track.
If your gym has cable machines you may be able to do something similar with wrist cuffs and have an even better experience.
I recently listened to a table talk podcast with JM Blakely in which he stated he used this approach to train triceps without tendon stress as the entire session is only 6 reps. It may be an approach that could be used for other muscle groups too.
Cool idea! My elbow has been feeling better though. I tend to evaluate the day after pulling if I can or cannot do something. Barbell rows for instance are fine, they donāt aggregate my symptoms in the present or after.
Primarily, unless my ring finger and pinky finger are participating intensely with gripping and I donāt accidentally curl at the wrist Iām good. And a barbell curl would be murder.
Also going to experiment with fat gripz.
However, if my healing seems to revert I will explore. At the moment Iām happy that Iāve found some safe movements (seemingly).
Climbing is by far the riskiest. Overhead side pulls on funky grips that demand cocking back the wrist are an instantaneous set back. Fortunately I can read this from the ground indoors most of the time.
used to be standard orthorexia. Now 
Example: I woke up from a dream where I was eating candy nonstop for quite some time and when I woke up I was getting ready to rush to the bathroom to stick my fingers down my throat. I didnāt, obviously. But itās not ideal that that sequence of events could even transpire. Or that that was my subconscious reaction.
