Let me tell you a little story about falling off the wagon...
For some time I was a pretty strong 165er, then still a decently strong sub 180.
Then "life" crept up and I did not focus on food and pushing heavy weight, together with nagging injuries of the shoulder and low hip mobility, I "stopped" lifting all together and humored fellow friends that I no longer lift at all. Truth is, I was still in the gym, but I did not make it a priority among all my other activities. I started riding my bike more, doing long distance rides. I dropped weight, my body felt better. My IT band was never sore, my quads never bothered me. Any kind of ache in my lower back was almost non-existant - but then I got tired of being 170 and going back in any gains I've made. So here I am, trying to pack on mass, get my strength back, but be smarter about it than prior.
And let me tell you all a little something, getting back to it is definitely hard. I've gone to the gym and have had to put me ego aside. ie, a 225lb bench feels heavy. Not because it's "hard" but just feels heavy and doesn't feel stable. I blame the left scapula - so here I find myself spending time doing exercises to strengthen just that, because moving on in weight isn't what it used to.
Maybe I did something wrong to injure it, but truth be told I don't know what it could be. I think where I went wrong was not paying attention that there was a problem - there is just no way it happened out of the blue - it just was something I dealt with thinking that was the normal way of things.
What have I learned from all of this? Simple, at first sign of a problem, assess and correct. If I had started routine warmups and exercises to address things like spine mobility, hip mobility, and most importantly to me, my scapula/lower traps, I probably would have never been in this mess.
Stay strong and stay healthy
Then "life" crept up and I did not focus on food and pushing heavy weight, together with nagging injuries of the shoulder and low hip mobility, I "stopped" lifting all together and humored fellow friends that I no longer lift at all. Truth is, I was still in the gym, but I did not make it a priority among all my other activities. I started riding my bike more, doing long distance rides. I dropped weight, my body felt better. My IT band was never sore, my quads never bothered me. Any kind of ache in my lower back was almost non-existant - but then I got tired of being 170 and going back in any gains I've made. So here I am, trying to pack on mass, get my strength back, but be smarter about it than prior.
And let me tell you all a little something, getting back to it is definitely hard. I've gone to the gym and have had to put me ego aside. ie, a 225lb bench feels heavy. Not because it's "hard" but just feels heavy and doesn't feel stable. I blame the left scapula - so here I find myself spending time doing exercises to strengthen just that, because moving on in weight isn't what it used to.
Maybe I did something wrong to injure it, but truth be told I don't know what it could be. I think where I went wrong was not paying attention that there was a problem - there is just no way it happened out of the blue - it just was something I dealt with thinking that was the normal way of things.
What have I learned from all of this? Simple, at first sign of a problem, assess and correct. If I had started routine warmups and exercises to address things like spine mobility, hip mobility, and most importantly to me, my scapula/lower traps, I probably would have never been in this mess.
Stay strong and stay healthy
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