I wanted to give an “atta boy” but thought that might be distasteful 
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You know full well I’m lying. No sex before marriage.
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He’s mentioned it enough times now that I just assume he is fishing for some atta boys.
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I just know my audience.
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26.01.
1 oh squat
5 @ 50 kg
2 @ 70 kg
1 @ 80 kg
1 @ 90 kg -PR
1 @ 100 kg - PR
1 @ 105 kg - PR
Honestly pretty easy. 110 would have been comfortable but I think even more would have been possible. Shoulders would become the weak link in that position.
2 sots press
some @ 50 kg
1 @ 70 kg
2 @ 70 kg
3 snatches
4 x 2 or so @ 50 kg
4 belt squat
Fucked around a bit. Did three sets with 5 plates each side in the end but I couldn’t really get the setup to feel right.
Notes:
- well at least I had some fun… still in a bit of a crisis with training. Will continue to do weightlifting stuff until I start the new week.
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That’s better,
Good to see a little PR party going on in here.
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If only it wasn’t a PR by default… In a lift that doesn’t matter and no one cares about…
But yeah, it’s true mate. It made me feel a bit better and it’s a fun lift for me.
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Dude, as @raven78 recently reminded me, a PR is a PR. Celebrate the win!
Nice work. Oh, and there’s this:
Sometimes that’s all you need.
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As someone who can’t even ovh squat the bar, I am beyond impressed
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Dan John cares.
Seriously though, that’s awesome. Definitely more than just a party trick. Glad to see you PR!
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Thanks guys! 
As stupid as it sounds but it seems like I may have torn some muscle fibers in my pec the other day. Zero loss of function (so far - the weightlifting stuff was completely fine), pain especially to the touch but not through daily movement and some slight bruising. All on the distal end (“edge”) of my left pec. @j4gga2 we thinking a slight partial tear?
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Yeah, I’d probably prefer to call it a low-grade strain (Grade 1) but they basically mean the same thing.
Also, and this may be pessimistic, does it even matter? As long as it’s not fracture or neural issue, I’m not sure identifying pathological tissues makes that big of a difference on management? Assuming management is criteria/symptom based, rather than time-based, that is
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For sure, I’m just curious for the most part. The only thing I’m unsure about is if there are precautions I would have to take from here?
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Not really. Training to pain threshold post hamstring strain injury lead to faster return of strength and faster return to running, but not necessarily faster return to sport.
Extrapolating that to training, pain-threshold (3-4/10 pain) training for a pec strain will probably lead to improved strength faster, but not lead to pain-free strength faster.
In my mind, that basically means finding a comfortable limit and train within it. Training in a limited ROM (e.g. floor Press rather than bench) may be less painful as well
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Perfect, that’s about what I would have thought as well. Thank you!
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No worries mate, I’m sure I’m preaching to the choir there
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Can the pain threshold be explained in a less subjective way? Pain on the same day okay, almost none next day?
Because, returning to the gym after being sick for 3+ weeks I strained my hamstring again so I don’t really dare to deadlift superheavy has had me ramp up to a 10RM with some back-off sets to keep load down somewhat but I can still feel a little pain, just not a ton. But, I’m very accustomed to being in pain, as I’m always in pain somewhere more or less and I’d say that even my level 2 pain is of the kind that it can make me grumpy after enough bad pain days + life days.And, I don’t find that pain scales linearly and more exponentially on the scale.
It becomes even less useless as a scale for me than RPE.
Btw, @j4gga2 and @Koestrizer can you think of a reason why where the hamstring and the glute ties in with one another would be more exposed/under more stress when the leg is abducted? I find that I’m at the most prone for injury when my leg is out to the side which happens in climbing and sumo-deadlifting. I have long femurs if that influences the way you think about it biomechanically.
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Actually “next day pain” is an important component to pain threshold training also, but I always forget to mention. You generally want the pain to be settled to baseline within 1 hour of exercise, and no next-day pain.
Also, rather than sticking with the 3-4/10, you could just think of it as “a level of pain you’re comfortable with”
IIRC it’s kind of just a fact that the proximal hamstring tendon is under more strain in abduction, but I couldn’t tell you why
Are you sure it’s your hamstring, not the adductor magnus? The two are often confused
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Not sure, no, but I can trigger pain just bending over with straight legs (pike stretch). So, I assume hamstring as it can occur with knee flexion (heel hook climbing) and conventional deadlift & sumo deadlift.
Did a little bit of weightlifting fuckery. Today it wasn’t fun though and I left pissed. I’ll probably just rest now wnd stsrt fresh with the new program.
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