This made me chuckle, but really, it's OK, though I appreciate your umbrage on my behalf. I invited the conversation by continuing the dialogue instead of ignoring it, and while I didn't expect it would go on so long and create such a gap between logging of actual workouts, it's not a big deal.
What I've observed over the years is something along the lines of the following: When you're very familiar with a subject, know a lot about it - or at least think you do - and have had thousands of people look to you for expertise in that area, you often get too comfortable with your own assumptions. When someone comes along very confidently challenging them, there's an extremely good chance they're wrong, but there's a small chance they're right, and the new knowledge or perspective might be worth finding out. With me, specifically, I tend to be a little stubborn and sometimes a little self righteous, and I've learned that lesson several times already so though I fail sometimes like every other human, I try to keep that in mind.
Unfortunately in this case, as best I can tell: I was either trolled or else Chris is just wrong and doing what I outlined above and being so comfortable with his own assumptions that evidence to the contrary is hand waved away or ignored. In the specific case referenced above, I had worked with significantly lower intensity, somewhat lower volume, and slightly lower frequency (though was ramping that back up) in the months leading up to that incident (early May) since my last meet (mid-late January). I had been over 90% for exactly 1 rep during that whole 3.5 month period, and had quite a bit lower average volume and intensity throughout compared to the previous 3-4 months.
The other recent injury, which thankfully turned out to be a minor one that I was able to ramp back up from in a few weeks, was a pec strain that occurred while unracking a warm-up set of bench press at 75%. I'm guessing Chris would similarly say that that shows I'd overdone it in the gym. Except the same conditions obtained there, too: I had been working at significantly lower intensities, somewhat lower volumes, and slightly lower frequency for the approx couple months leading up to that than the previous 3-4.
Goalposts can be shifted, and it's an unfalsifiable claim, as I pointed out, because it can always fall back to "well it wasn't enough of an offset." But the offset was pretty large, by any reasonable standard. Chris is welcome to continue to confidently assert his opinion but I will not be spending any more time addressing it, as I re-examined my assumptions for the sake of attempted learning but found the assertion extremely lacking in likelihood.
Chris, you haven't made a real argument here, just asserted. I thought about what you said, it doesn't match my history or experience with the relationship of injuries to my training, and I disagree that it explains all or even most of the situation. It may have something to do some some of the incidents in an acute sense, but as an overarching explanation of the whole situation, it doesn't match up. Since this is a training log and not a general forum, DM me if you want to continue to try to convince me, but otherwise I don't want to break up the flow of my training log with a topic I'm pretty well satisfied on already. Thanks.