I'm now in my second round of the bridge (week 2), and both times I have been battling issues with my lower back not recovering after Friday's deadlifts. I'll come in the following Monday, manage my squats and then rack pulls are a joke. Some days I'll just skip them because my lower back is so gassed and end up doing weighted chins. If I don't skip them I have to do them at a way lower weight of what I pulled on Friday.
If it's really bad I'll sub out my rowe's for chins on Wednesday to give it a little more time to recover and be in better shape for pulls on Friday.
Come Friday my lower back is usually pretty tight during warm ups and typically won't feel 100% when pulling.
I'm curious as to how I can adjust the programming to help my lower back adjust to this amount of volume. Would it be smart to reduce the intensity on Friday's pulls but maintain the volume and then slowly increase the intensity up until I'm back to the normal programming?
I'm 5'9 185lbs and eating 2500 calories with some cheating on the weekends. The volume on press/bench didn't seem to be an issue, so I am tempted to say calorie wise I'm doing okay..
Thanks in advance for your input,
Nick
If it's really bad I'll sub out my rowe's for chins on Wednesday to give it a little more time to recover and be in better shape for pulls on Friday.
Come Friday my lower back is usually pretty tight during warm ups and typically won't feel 100% when pulling.
I'm curious as to how I can adjust the programming to help my lower back adjust to this amount of volume. Would it be smart to reduce the intensity on Friday's pulls but maintain the volume and then slowly increase the intensity up until I'm back to the normal programming?
I'm 5'9 185lbs and eating 2500 calories with some cheating on the weekends. The volume on press/bench didn't seem to be an issue, so I am tempted to say calorie wise I'm doing okay..
Thanks in advance for your input,
Nick
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