Originally Posted by
Masher
Hey folks,
I don't know if it is bad luck or just me being too gung-ho, but after great strides in month #1, my second month has been a story of injuries and no progress. Literally a few days after my first post here, I fell apart. Over the last 30 days:
Squat: +10 lbs
Press: +10 lbs
Bench = 0
DL = 0
PClean=0
Injury #1. I had a nagging groin tightness & strain turned into a full-on groin pull. These injuries nagged me back in my football-playing days. I completely backed off squats, got a leg wrap, did I.C.E. at home, and hobbled around like an old man for a while. I am finally over this but I had to basically start all over with squats.
Injury #2. Strained/pulled muscle in ribcage. Again, I've had injuries like this in the past too. This injury crept up on me like the groin one, but is much more severe. Had some soreness in my ribs one day, worked out, then poof -- woke up next morning to sharp pains in mid-back and ribs, pain when coughing/sneezing, and the like. While I have healed some over the weeks, and been able to resume squats and light to moderate bench presses over the last 7 days, I absolutely cannot deadlift or do power cleans. Like not at all. Even doing warmups with the bar hurts my back, so I am basically at square one again.
On the plus-side, I am feeling strong (as weird as that is to say with aching ribs much of the time) and I've just crossed the 200 -lb mark. I have put on about 14 lbs in 2 months. I see the muscle mass accumulating in my shoulders/chest/arms and yeah, a little around my midsection too, but not too bad. When I was really down with the rib pains and was resting for a solid week, I actually dropped a couple of pounds.
Basically I keep to my MWF schedule and just lift as much as I can without overly aggravating any injuries. Any thoughts about how to proceed, or where I screwed up, might be helpful. Ha. It sucks to get old huh?