Thanks for taking the time to open my post
I am running an old version of the press template, I don’t see a version number or something in it. Circa 2018 or so, running it again.
Just finishing week 3 and I am wondering about swapping a couple of exercises. I’ve been dealing with some knee pain(right patella on the femur side, quite sensitive to touch even when not acute pain while lifting) a few weeks previous to starting this program. It was caused I think from too much backcountry skiing(skinning up the mountain plus skiing down) without lowering the amount of lifting I was doing, just a little overuse. Confident it will get better over time with ski season largely over.
The program calls for on the things I am thinking about changing:
Day 1 comp squat(I do high bar bc low bar bugs an elbow injury I have from rock climbing that I am still working on rehabbing)
Day 2 sup-squat: high bar, belt squat, or split squat…I do split bc I can’t do belt squat with my gym set up and already do high bar day 1
Day 4 sup-deadlift RDL or leg press and to use leg press if you good morning your squat which I do so I leg press
Day 2 and day 4 are both even numbered exercises so reps/intensity are the same
Split squat is really aggravating this knee pain when that leg is the one in back even when I really focus on weighting the front leg
A) Wondering if I should just do RDL on day 4 and then maybe leg press instead of split squat day 2.
B) Or what I did yesterday was do leg extension on a machine after first split squat set felt so bad. Could just keep doing knee extension, it definitely still hurt but was much more reasonable yet also figured it would not avoid the range of motion that is causing pain and strengthen that range. Could also do high bar squats on a smith machine or try front squats
Because this is a meet prep program I imagine wouldn’t want to do knee extension bc its less specific but wasn’t sure how to proceed bc it may be best at rehabbing the knee a bit? That said i’m not doing a meet at the end so kind of whatever is best.
Tangential question. On the 1@RPE8 on comp press I get reallyy lightheaded almost to the point of blackout. Wondering if there is any advice on this issue? I don’t rest the bar really hard against my neck creating a blood choke. I had the same issue when I ran it years ago. Full on lost consciousness once back then but learned i need to take a breath at the top before I re-rack
I tried searching for this already and found an old post where Austin said don’t really know but it happens to me too I just put the safeties up but wondering if in the interceding years ya’ll have more insight about it. I don’t really get lightheaded from anything else.
Thanks!