Essential Random Gym Thoughts Revisited...
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Gully Bull
Love Sponge
What flavor protein you adding to tea?I've also found if you brew and chill the tea overnight it doesn't make your proton shakes in the morning boiling hot.
Son Goku
Great Sage Equalling Heaven
@The Butcher's been making tea and doing cardio.
@portcityplaya ate himself to an early grave.
@You know damn well is an ambassador for non-cac wrestling.
(SN: Is it just me or does the name "Sambo" sound like a combat sport for c00ns though?)
@Yinny and @dora_da_destroyer were abducted by incels and haven't posted since.
Son Goku
Great Sage Equalling Heaven
What flavor protein you adding to tea?
Chocolate. Back to Chocolate Peanut Butter once this bag is finished.
And since it's gainer (almost 340g per serving), I'm adding the tea to the #Powder.
@The Butcher's been making tea and doing cardio.
@portcityplaya ate himself to an early grave.
@You know damn well is an ambassador for non-cac wrestling.
(SN: Is it just me or does the name "Sambo" sound like a combat sport for c00ns though?)
@Yinny and @dora_da_destroyer were abducted by incels and haven't posted since.
@portcityplaya is this true?
Chocolate. Back to Chocolate Peanut Butter once this bag is finished.
And since it's gainer (almost 340g per serving), I'm adding the tea to the #Powder.
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Son Goku
Great Sage Equalling Heaven
Y'all keep saying tea is healthy, right? And can even help fight off the rona, right? Well that shyt is disgusting and undrinkable so I may as well add it to something that isn't.
I've taken something that is awful (a smelly, flavorless, hot beverage
) and turned it, molded it to my benefit. In 2022, this is the whey!
Will have to adjust certain #Powda dosing for the slight bump in caffeine tho.
trap101-ETHout-Allegri-In
All Star
Sounds like you have runner's knee to me, which could actually be a few different syndromes.
(Basically an overuse injury caused by repetitive soft tissue stress.) The main reason daily/frequent squatting is not recommended for less than advanced lifters is that any form deficiencies will be magnified in proportion to the increase in frequency. If you went from 2 days to 5 days, you increased freq by 2.5x. If you form is less than stellar, you also just increased the amount of times you squatted with mid form by 2.5x too.
You were doing cardio (racquetball plus some other forms right?) and squatting and still doing other leg exercises, yes?, and it sounds like your connective tissues got stressed and couldn't take it. Remember @The Butcher can daily squat because his cardio game is almost non-existent. Any type of high-impact exercise is compounding the stress on the shock absorbers in your legs that allow you to squat. You double (or maybe triple) dipped.
One of the reason's I woulda told you *not* to try daily squatting besides:
is that you most assuredly did not account for the increase in frequency necessitating a reduction in volume. (If you had read up on it, you'd have picked up on this immediately.)
- the fact that you don't compete and thus don't need to raise your 1RM using such drastic measures
- I'm pretty sure you didn't read up on the Bulgarian Method or other similar programming, you prolly just jumped into it
, especially since you never asked for #POWDA1's adivce.
The same way we don't do quite as many sets per muscle group on a PPL split that we do on a bro split is because we doubled the frequency of the stimulus to a given muscle group. (My sessions are usually less than 15 working reps compared to maybe 40 or so working reps on other splits.)
First thing you do when planning to squat everyday is cut volume. Quad-focused leg accessory exercises are nixed (I for example do maybe three sets of Leg Extensions every two weeks). No lunges, no leg pressing, nothing, because squatting already provides more than enough stimulation, and those other, inferior exercises are only further taxing your recovery. Also, if you weren't conscious of keeping some quad/hammy balance in there it could have exacerbated the problem.
Not only do you cut total leg exercise volume, you should also be cutting the number of reps per set as well (don't know if you did this or not). Majority of your working sets should have been 1 or 2 reps max, with a few lighter doubles and triples if your energy levels permitted. If you tried doing 5x5 or 3x10 or whatever rep scheme everyday,
Not wearing sleeves was also foolish. Can you daily squat without them, of course, but the folks that do build up to that. Besides giving you support out of the hole and adding a few pounds to you squat, sleeves also serve to warm up your knees and keep them warm: you can literally abbreviate or even skip warming up just by putting on your sleeves ahead of time and traveling to the gym.
But yeah, sounds like your muscles might have been recovering okay but your tendons and ligaments weren't. You kept pushing it because you're not a bytch and now those same connective tissues are sprained and inflamed.
RICEN is what they told me to do when I had runner's knee. Take it easy until your knees have recovered.
Professor Butch done held class... I know I pickrd up some shyt...
trap101-ETHout-Allegri-In
All Star
I don't even pay attention to leggings anymore.Even the fat, sloppy hogs in the gym wear them.
I pay attention to how them hips and them cheeks move during her squat.
Don't forget how them quad muscles move. Too jiggly, then she a piggy. If it's firm, then the back can get blown.
Son Goku
Great Sage Equalling Heaven
The God Poster
LWO representa
Vaccine mandates for the gym start today. Tempted to go during the after work crowd to see how busy it is 
Gully Bull
Love Sponge
Have a two hour break but be committed to very light cardio and no leg day brahsThat’s three of us down
I’m bout to walk slowly on a treadmill while I do some soul searching
Pretty much roasted my front delts carrying a barbell to do walking lunges yesterday in the yoga room so not so sure about even doing a push day today