Ok sob story to follow. First the bad news:
My training has been stagnant to regressive over the last couple years due to a bad groin pull doing BJJ, excessive program hopping, knee tendinitis, and recently an umbilical hernia mesh repair (listened to hernia podcast). The last couple months have been especially egregious with a lot of kids activities limiting my training time slots to one day a week. The worst though is that as, I think, part of my alcohol addiction recovery (clean 4 years in Sept) I’ve been drinking non-alcoholic beer and smoking cigs (about 5 a weekend) for the last few weekends while attending various alcohol laden functions like wedding receptions and such (I only smoke when I don’t drink, yeah wonderful substitution eh).
Per the knee tendinitis I got some really good advice from you here (x7 and x10 squats dreadful - Training Q/A with Drs. Feigenbaum & Baraki - Barbell Medicine Forum) and also from Dr Miles in the knee rehab template forum to focus more on the training process, both of which have helped me immensely.
Ok, now the good news:
The kids activities are winding down here in the next couple weeks so I will be able to get back to 2-3 days per week resistance training plus 2-3 days of conditioning. I’ve been sticking with the knee rehab template and the knee is doing better and I’m also seeing improvement in the movement loading, as well as a bit of hypertrophy. I’m enjoying the process and not stressing as much about weight on the bar which has really helped with my training anxiety. I think I’m finally getting to the point of a basic understanding of how to train effectively.
So…
Since you guys have helped me in the past I just need a little nudge to get me through this slump, away from the bad stuff and back full swing into the good stuff.
Thanks!