I definitely needed it, but it's also annoying when weights that are your warm-up weights - and that felt like easy, warm-up weight the week before, even though you were crushed - feel heavy. But it is what it is, and I've learned I need to take deloads even though I don't want to. Blah.
I'm not convinced they don't want to punish me, but I hope you're right!
Chad. Dude. What the hell. He's put what, 200+ on his total in like 5 months? I envy these people who just push and push and PR and PR with no set-backs. As we all know here, once you get past the point where you're doing this for general health, and are on the quest for Beasthood and PRs and personal accomplishment, the chance of injury goes up. But it definitely seems like, just as some people have more natural aptitude for strength development, some people have more natural aptitude for not being injured. I know even the people who can do this still have tweaks and things that hurt and discomfort. But there's a big difference between that and things that literally stop you from training. I hate being stopped from training.
Haha, you're right. Consider the current mood of New Yorkers right now about winter (we had some snow this morning, did you catch it?). Now multiply that by 4x, and that's how long I've been dealing with this constant-something-going-wrong nonsense. I'm just burnt out on it and very wary.
And it does feel better after some aggressive rolling and also a massage yesterday. I may be able to jump right back in to heavy volume work and more PRs. I'll find out for sure tomorrow.