Sorry guys for going MIA

[Xpliot]

Back in action after some life changes. Took a couple months off. let my hernia heal and gave my shoulder a break. Feels a lot better. Kinda took a step back from everything and everyone but I’m back lifting again and feel a lot better with my shoulder. That was the first break in two years of lifting. Gonna be back on here a lot more again like I was

 

[Poppy]

Glad you’re good. An occasional break is good for a person imo.

 

[Mossy1985]

Welcome back

 

[John]

Good to hear from you.

 

[Neuro]

Glad you’re doing okay, and came back!

 

[Xpliot]

Yeah just had some life changes and hit ‘‘em really hard then taking a break was really hard for me. But I appreciate you guys!

 

[Dirtnasty]

Hey good to see you

 

[Thunder]

Glad your back brotha

 

[Thunder]

We call them “mental health days”…
Some of us actually need them….

 

[Poppy]

There’s lots of shoulder “prehab” movements to try.

For me “YTW’s” and face pulls WITHOUT the ego weight was the game changer.

So was eliminating pull ups with weight.

Moved my bench press grip in AND quit doing max poundage.

Just a few things that helped me.

 

[Poppy]

My younger self just showed up in my head…what do you mean no max poundage you broke down old man? Go big or go home!

Present day me: hypertrophy, strength…power are all different things. Yes they intersect at some point but it’s hard to serve more than one master. You can get very big and strong AND develop some power with sub-maximal training weights. Unless you’re competing for something then there’s no reason to redline your training every single session for months on end.

 

[EF9kid]

Glad to know you good.

 

[johnjuanb1]

Glad you’re back!

 

[Xpliot]

Yeah my shoulder feels good for once! Can even bench again. I never benched cause it always hurt but I put up 265 last week

 

[Xpliot]

Also didn’t gain much weight either sitting around and going to work the last two months. think last time I was at 190 and I’m at about 200. Idk if I want to lean back out then do a bulk cycle or just stay where I’m at. But I was thinking of going with deca

 

[Poppy]

Maybe just ease into it and use some sensible sustainable food intake and have fun with it for a while. If I remember correctly, you were hitting it pretty intense for a long period.

 

[Xpliot]

Yeah I def won’t being going as hard like that again for a bit lol I’m just enjoying myself again

 

[anabolic_geek]

Broooo good to see you back! Missed your face!!