Hi Guys,
I’ve been doing the SSLP for a few months and feel like I am nearing the end of my progression. I went to do 125kg squats on Friday night and the warmups felt really good, but on my first rep at 125 I felt a sharp pain on the left side of my groin. I gritted through and did the 5 reps, but I am fairly certain it is a hernia (I’ve had the right one repaired 6 years ago and this is exactly opposite the scar from that and feels identical pain-wise). I’ve got an appointment later in the week to go and have it properly checked. I was really disappointed, but I know you guys say to find your pain tolerance and work to that, so I deloaded back to 100kg and can squat that pain free. I tried 105 and that was painful. I tried deadlifting also and was supposed to do 140kg, but again 100kg is ok and any more is painful. I went back 2 days later on Sunday and the pain was still there as soon I tried more than 100kg. There is no pain when I am not lifting. Bench and press were both totally fine. I’m 41 if that matters.
So I am trying to work out how to best program around it until I can get it sorted out. I was thinking to limit those two movements to 100kg while that is mostly pain free, and increase the volume to 10 rep sets, and maybe add some extra sets so that I am getting a similar amount of training stress to before. My final set of squats are feeling like an RPE 9 to 9.5 these days with pretty slow bar speed on the last rep. Do you think it is worth adding something like leg presses where I don’t need that intense abdominal pressure to lift, and something to supplement deadlifts also?
I was hoping to be moving to the bridge or maybe your new beginner template soon (I’ve already switched my bench programming to the part 1 week 4 program from i), but it looks like I might have to wait a bit until I can work through this.
Thanks for any advice, and for all your information! Before I discovered you guys, I probably would have given away lifting from this but I am determined to push through.
Shane
