Several things conspired to interfere with my workouts in the last few months.
For one thing, I hit a plateau in my 5x5 routine and just stopped making progress. Along with that, my shoulder started really giving me trouble. This is an old injury from a motorcycle crash in 2010 that was never operated on and sometimes gives me trouble, especially when benching heavy.
I also was playing ice hockey and made that a focus. This doesn't stop me from training but does require some careful planning, especially with leg day. So I ended up skipping legs or training them lightly. Between hockey and work, it became difficult to fit training in regularly.
My wife and I have started a new business venture, which also demands a fair amount of my time off from work.
I also got mentally burned out on the 5x5's. When progress halted it started to turn into a grind.
In top of all that, I broke my fibula (outer bone in the lower leg) about 7 weeks ago. Needless to say, that slowed me down some, toi.
I never stopped training completely, but have been very inconsistent; was doing dumbbell only chest workouts to ease my shoulder pain; and obviouslt haven't been training legs.
The result hasn't been as bad as might be expected, but obviously I'm not where I had been. I had been up to 210; I probably reached 13 or 14% bf at that point, which was up from 194 and 9% when i started working to male gains. I tjen started a slow recomp to try to get back down to 9% when the derailmemt occurred. So now I'm at 200 and pribanly the same 13 or 14% I was at my fattest.
Trying to get back on the horse.
Leg day today, first time since broken leg.
For one thing, I hit a plateau in my 5x5 routine and just stopped making progress. Along with that, my shoulder started really giving me trouble. This is an old injury from a motorcycle crash in 2010 that was never operated on and sometimes gives me trouble, especially when benching heavy.
I also was playing ice hockey and made that a focus. This doesn't stop me from training but does require some careful planning, especially with leg day. So I ended up skipping legs or training them lightly. Between hockey and work, it became difficult to fit training in regularly.
My wife and I have started a new business venture, which also demands a fair amount of my time off from work.
I also got mentally burned out on the 5x5's. When progress halted it started to turn into a grind.
In top of all that, I broke my fibula (outer bone in the lower leg) about 7 weeks ago. Needless to say, that slowed me down some, toi.
I never stopped training completely, but have been very inconsistent; was doing dumbbell only chest workouts to ease my shoulder pain; and obviouslt haven't been training legs.
The result hasn't been as bad as might be expected, but obviously I'm not where I had been. I had been up to 210; I probably reached 13 or 14% bf at that point, which was up from 194 and 9% when i started working to male gains. I tjen started a slow recomp to try to get back down to 9% when the derailmemt occurred. So now I'm at 200 and pribanly the same 13 or 14% I was at my fattest.
Trying to get back on the horse.
Leg day today, first time since broken leg.
