First off man will this cut be easy. I dialed back just a little bit, just weighed in at 201.6. I am a little dehydrated so I will check again tomorrow, but a lot of it came right out of my damn love handles.
Like I said I figured out why my left wrist is all fukked up. Long story short, on my push motions I am holding the bar too far away from my wrist in my hands. So the shyt is damn near sitting in my fingers instead of my palm, which puts a bigger lever on my wrist and stretches it the fukk out. If you look at the the whole hand/wrist assembly like a see saw, with the wrist joint being the middle, the muscles/tendons in your forearm on one side and your hand as the other, basically the further away from your wrist you hold the bar, the more stress your wrist muscles/tendons have to stretch/flex to compensate. Now you couple that with the fact that I was stretching the shyt out of them on push, and then immediately flexing the shyt out of them with a pull movement right after, it's no wonder my tendons have been getting fried only after I started this total upper body routine.
It really sucks because I love this routine and finally got into a groove where I was seeing gains and recovering nicely. I'm kind of at a loss on what to do. I have 36" wrist wraps coming and I have been practicing proper bar grip and wrapping technique, so it's possible that with this new set up I will be able to keep on my old routine no problem. But I don't want to jump back to that, and then have another set back. But at the same time, I could go in pretty much every day and increase my volume while stressing my wrists less on a daily basis. So I'm still figuring that out. I def want to take advantage of my time working from home now and absolutely maximize my volume but obviously I don't want to injure myself again. I am waffling back and forth but I think I am gonna try a 4 day cycle (pull/push/legs/shoulders+"rest"). It will be rough and I will probably have to deload/take time off a bit more, but as long as I can stay injury free and keep making gains I will be happy. Shoulder day will be kind of a deload/rest day anyway, with me just doing 2 compounds and 2-3 accessories. I might do some wrist work on shoulder day too.
My right knee is also feeling a good bit better. I think I have to be more aggressive and consistent about warming up and using my sleeves. Still looking for that golden hamstring movement... I think between these stability ball ham curls and maybe some GHRs if I can find a way to do them at this gym I will be set on that end. I don't care about deadlifts and my lower back is OK. My legs gain so easy I'm not really worried... I may only do them once a week and just run a 7 day split.
he's a sociopath how?
competition level bf% but deadlifting 600lbs at a weight of 180. (or squatting 600, one or the other)? shyt ain't ordinary.
That is like the icing on the cake. If I can stick with this shyt I will be beyond good.
