Bryan's journal

[Walter Palmer]

Who knows, maybe you will come out of this with some hypertrophy in your triceps and that will help keep driving your BP up??

[Bryan Dobson]

Yeah, lemons to lemonade.

[Bryan Dobson]

Saturday 2/7/15

TRAC continue training as normal.stress levels and fatigue is low. In good shape
Shoulder: I think my ac joint gets more sore from pressing than benching. Not bad but it is apparently tender.

Rehab; external extensions and halo work.

Conditioning,
Prowler walking ( long strides) intervals 25 yards loaded light +90
1 minute rest. Started at 20 seconds of work but it got longer through the session by 5-8 seconds kept rest the same throughout. I like to keep rest constant to work performed which is easily measured by distance.
8 rounds

Laid around in the sun for an hour soaking up some d..it's in the 50s Sunny and nice!

[Bryan Dobson]

Monday 2/9/15
TRAC continue training as normal

Squat with belt
380x3@7.5
405x3@8
425x2. Failed rep 3 . Rep two looked and felt like 8.5 but my reps were slow and harder today indicating fatigue is surpassing recovery.
380x3@8.5

Bench with comp pause and 20" grip
205x3@6
225x3@6.5
237.5x3@8.5

Increased loading causes increased discomfort..rethinking my approach. May take a pressing layoff. Maybe repeated inflammation is not helping.
Plus failing an achievable squat got me bummed.

[paterfamilias]

That sucks, man. Did the discomfort from the AC joint cause that?

[Bryan Dobson]

No it doesn't bother me on squats. It does on pressing movements which is a bummer. I am considering bodybuilding as a work around for the upper body( avoid atrophy) and avoiding inflammatory activities ( bench and press)for 4-6 weeks following that with a LP program on bench if I feel healthy then. If that doesn't help I will be calling the surgeon. I am hoping it will help.
I can't be trust myself with a barbell movement not to try to progress the lift and or do heavy volume..

For the squats and lower body, I have been running two varieties of accumulation for the past six weeks plus I added prowler work to my weekly workload and it caught up to me. I can either peak or take a step back on loads, two steps forward one step back, infinity accumulation...I don't feel like peaking.

[DV]

My wife had AC-surgery, her shoulder was super bad, and the MRI showed the ligaments to be more or less completely torn. After surgery, however, the doc admitted that in reality it was just loads of inflammation that had "clouded" the MRI somehow, making it look worse than it was. So I think you are right in trying as hard as you can to avoid the knife.

I suppose you have already used the Vitamin I protocol? I saw you cutting it when actually using the shoulder, which I understand, but it undercuts the anti-inflammatory effect if I understand things correctly.

Being fairly susceptible to overuse injuries myself I've found that sometimes a lay-off does help. Sometimes it doesn't. It's hard to tell how you are feeling from here, but I'd probably try to see what happened if I did lightish closegrip work, loads of mobility and rehab work, along with the ibuprofen. And if that didn't work, then try a complete lay-off.

Still, you are an experienced dude. 4-6 weeks isn't much in the big picture anyway, so maybe laying off now is the better approach. Especially if you are not "to be trusted" not to do too much too soon.

[Bryan Dobson]

Thanks DV . I am feeling better today, residual inflamation is improving post pressing so I am considering things.

[Bryan Dobson]

Wednesday 2/11/15
TRAC You are recovering much better than expected. Add 1 extra set to each movement or 2% fatigue to your planned training.
Bwt 223

Chins and pull-ups
18 total reps

High bar squat warmups
45x10,135x5,225x3,315x1

Deadlift with belt and squat shoes 135x3,225x1,315x1,365x1
425x3@7.5
425x3@8
425x3@8
425x3@8
Added extra set compared to last week with less fatigue.

Pull-ups Borge rest pause's 6,2,2,2,2

Banded lat pull downs.
A whole bunch for a pump.

Barbell curls
Borge rp
75x16,4,4,4,4,4.


Shoulder is feeling good today. . Been doing various rehab protocols, Monday,tues, thurs, Friday and Saturday. Getting a lot of shoulder volume that way.

[Bryan Dobson]

Never mind.