I first want to offer praise and thanks for the low-fatigue templates. I’ve had tremendous success with getting close to some PRs recently at a much lower body weight. I’ve also been carrying a decent conditioning load of a longer run of about 6 miles, and two shorter tempo and interval runs throughout the week consistently. On week 6 of the template I saw huge gains. Last weekend I beat my 5k time by 3 minutes and placed second in my age group.
I’ve had a perhaps chronic maybe acute issues with my knee that crops up when I approach heavy squats. It’s likely overuse since it generally doesn’t take long for me to get back to pain-free lifting. I’ve learned to progress slower and give my joints time to catch up. It showed up again on Monday. It’s on the interior of my knee and it doesn’t stop my daily life. I can run on it fine but squats are what aggravates it.
I was pondering using some of the principles in the knee rehab template and was curious to get your take on full range of motion but less weight versus partial range of motion and full weight.
For example, the low-fatigue template had this morning the following:
2@RPE 7 I wasn’t able to do this weight-wise because of the pain. I could have done partial range of motion at full weight though. I was able to lower the weight significantly and complete full range of motion.
Which is better? Drop the weight or partial range of motion?