I question my recovery rate (possible Sleep Apnea from really messed up sinus/deviation that will require a Sinus Surgeon and a Plastic Surgeon to fix), and I’ve noticed that the day after my comp pull, I am the most tired. I feel drained and don’t really feel like doing anything the next day. I don’t feel that tired after comp squats however.
Because I am 6’4 with long femurs, I am really bent over in the squat and conventional. The more bent over you are in the lift the more stress on the back? (Clarify if am wrong).
Would switching to Sumo be of less stress to the back thus slightly better recovery? Could you imagine me being able to handle more stress(thus more gains) in the squat because of less stress on the back?
So, I’m not sure that your recovery rate is really suffering unduly and I would try not to interpret feeling “tired” after two days of training as very meaningful of anything.
As far as having a more horizontal back angle putting more stress on your back- I’m not sure what you mean. It doesn’t require the muscles to work any harder, nor does it reduce their (the muscles’) ability to produce force (e.g. fatigue), so I’m not sure. Consider this, the erector spinae muscles have the same activation in a front squat as they do in a low bar squat when using the same relative load.
So with that in mind, I wouldn’t necessarily think sumo deadlifts would be any less fatiguing for you- especially because they’re a new movement to you. I would not expect you to be able to handle more stress on the squat because you’re doing sumo deadlift.
That all being said, if you want to switch to sumo that’s fine too!
As far as recovery goes, it’s been like that for a while, I just been dealing with it as if it was all normal.
This crossed my mind a few minutes after I posted.
You just answered my question, but I’ll still ask anyways. Since you just said “I wouldn’t necessarily think sumo deadlifts would be any less fatiguing for you” that must mean in terms of ROM, Sumo wouldn’t be less stressful because of the distance in bar path compared to the distance of conventional, assuming the Sumo stance isn’t excessively wide. What are you thoughts on this?
I don’t think that’s likely to have a significant impact on fatigue levels. It’s not that much shorter. Additionally, what if you lift more weight? Wouldn’t that negate any ROM reduction?
