Well, to be honest, I've always just trained straight through every injury. Except last year and the start of this year I had knocked my SI joint out of place and it was wreaking havoc on my sciatic nerve. I did what I could but I was legitimately limited there. I've only had one muscle tear, to my hamstring, but I had a meet two weeks after I tore it, so I simply wrapped it up constantly, iced, Advil and competed anyway. In your case, however, a torn lat is very serious. The lats are the biggest muscle in the upper body. You've got to let it heal up. But you need to address whatever technique and/or flexibility issues that lead to the injury as that shouldn't happen in a well-managed pop roach to your training. We all make mistakes, but just need to now become smarter/better for them... Sorry to lecture you! The price of experience can be high as you can see, but use this opportunity to make your squat training go through the roof. Now would be a perfect time for example to do the full on Smolov squat cycle, for example, as it legitimately works best when you are not dead lifting and benching!
Thanks for the advice man. I actually tore it doing sumo deadlifts, I pulled 500 the week before and then when I went to pull 450 it just didn't move and i could just hear the tear, so it might have just been that time. I use to be a strength and conditioning coach (CSCS) so I'd like to think I was doing it properly, but we all have flaws and mistakes and don't know everything, so somewhere along those lines I fucked up with my form and execution. I have been killing my squats lately because my upper body work is restricted, but ill look into the Smolov squat cycle. I have also emailed you about the programs you have going on. Thanks for the advice man, good luck on the competition in australia.
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Legit thread. I like the back and forth with every body from you Dan. You're with out a doubt my favorite lifter. I know you used body building style template to build your current physique, but it's amazing how strong you're getting just hammering the basics. Makes sense, just really hard to do some times.
Legit thread. I like the back and forth with every body from you Dan. You're with out a doubt my favorite lifter. I know you used body building style template to build your current physique, but it's amazing how strong you're getting just hammering the basics. Makes sense, just really hard to do some times.
Thanks man. I'm not sure what I do that makes it a bodybuilding template but I do like lifting weights...
Dan "Boss" Green
WR 2099 raw total @220
WR 2083 raw total @242
WR 2210 raw w/wraps total @242
Thanks man. I'm not sure what I do that makes it a bodybuilding template but I do like lifting weights...
Sorry, I do not mean now at all. Rather I've read in quite a few other sites that you've used a bodybuilding type template to build your "foundation". I know now your current training is completely different then that of a bodybuilder. I love how simplistic your training is and it just goes to show how over complicated many people make it.
Sorry, I do not mean now at all. Rather I've read in quite a few other sites that you've used a bodybuilding type template to build your "foundation". I know now your current training is completely different then that of a bodybuilder. I love how simplistic your training is and it just goes to show how over complicated many people make it.
Don't worry I'm mainly fascinated how people use the terms to automatically mean certain things. I mean really there's no reason why the powerlifter and bodybuilder are used to imply mutually exclusive types of lifters. Seems to me like if you lift weights you will get bigger if you want to get stronger and you'll have to get stronger if you want to get bigger and appear harder... You can only approach them separately with limited effectiveness in my opinion. You can look at Arnold as a perfect example... champion bodybuilder but started as a powerlifter. Benched around 500 and deadlifted almost 700... huge chest and upper body...
Dan "Boss" Green
WR 2099 raw total @220
WR 2083 raw total @242
WR 2210 raw w/wraps total @242
Don't worry I'm mainly fascinated how people use the terms to automatically mean certain things. I mean really there's no reason why the powerlifter and bodybuilder are used to imply mutually exclusive types of lifters. Seems to me like if you lift weights you will get bigger if you want to get stronger and you'll have to get stronger if you want to get bigger and appear harder... You can only approach them separately with limited effectiveness in my opinion. You can look at Arnold as a perfect example... champion bodybuilder but started as a powerlifter. Benched around 500 and deadlifted almost 700... huge chest and upper body...
You're right, in my mind I always want to categorize black and white, but in the end, lifting up heavy ass weight is what causes change.
You can look at Arnold as a perfect example... champion bodybuilder but started as a powerlifter. Benched around 500 and deadlifted almost 700... huge chest and upper body...
just to clarify, his first competition was in weightlifting, his first powerlifting competition was 2 years later, because that also was one of the first powerlifting competitions in germany.
just to clarify, his first competition was in weightlifting, his first powerlifting competition was 2 years later, because that also was one of the first powerlifting competitions in germany.
405 x 3 x 6 reps -- these were fast and all three sets felt good and no pain in elbows or forearms
Extra Wide Grip Paused Bench
365 x 2 x 6 reps -- these felt ok. I'm adding more wide grip benching into the training to build up the workload for the chest early on
PullUps
BW x 15 -- kinda tired at this point and feeling pretty heavy lol. More to stretch out though at this point.
Was happy with the benching as the 435x2x6 was a PR. I'd hit it for one set before but it was a grind and this was two sets. Plus that was last december and was the set that I massively injured my SI joint on... so this is my best starting point going into any meet's training progression.
Dan "Boss" Green
WR 2099 raw total @220
WR 2083 raw total @242
WR 2210 raw w/wraps total @242
What are you thoughts on mobility/stretching Dan? Also how bad is butt wink in the squat? I have some issues with this and I'm not sure if it'll lead to an injury or if it's a mobility issue.
What are you thoughts on mobility/stretching Dan? Also how bad is butt wink in the squat? I have some issues with this and I'm not sure if it'll lead to an injury or if it's a mobility issue.
Butt wink has to do with hamstring flexibility but is usually just a technical mistake. Usually people read that they are supposed to "sit back" as they squat and this is not really a good way to think about squatting. I would say that a better way to think about it is to keep your hips back just enough to start the descent of a squat on your heels and you should squat "down" lol and try to keep your heels firmly planted. So just stay back enough to push through the heels at the bottom. "sit back" too far and it will become a good morning
Dan "Boss" Green
WR 2099 raw total @220
WR 2083 raw total @242
WR 2210 raw w/wraps total @242