Ryan's "I'm Old Now" Log

[Ryan Arnold]

3/20/20

Squat: 245x5x3

Bench: 245x3x2

Chins: 48reps/10min

Motivation was back today. Decided to not let my life be consumed by the Coronavirus

[Ryan Arnold]

3/23/20

Squat: 250x5

Bench: 217.5x5x3

Chins: 50reps/10min

Only one top set of Squat today due to Friday back tweak. Hopefully I stayed in "healing" mode and can go up again on Friday after a successful DL day Wednesday. I'm at my max on chins so will have to figure out a slight change there

[Ryan Arnold]

3/25/20

Press: 162.5x2, 135x6

Deadlift: 345x1

3/27/20

Squat: 255x5x2

Bench: 247.5x2x3

Chins: [BW, +25, +35] x5

Back tweak was 90% better but still limited Squat Volume to two sets. Back to normal Monday. Bench seems to be slowing. Adding weighted chins back to the mix

[Ryan Arnold]

3/30/20

Squat: 260x5x3

Bench: 217.5x6x3

Chins: BWx8x3

Back tweak is healed. Onward

[Ryan Arnold]

4/1/20

Press: 165x2x2, 135x7

Deadlift: 345x3

[Ryan Arnold]

4/3/20

Squat: 265x5x3

Bench: 250x2x3

Chins: [BW, +25, +35, +45] x5

[Ryan Arnold]

4/6/20

Squat: 270x5x3

Bench: 220x6x3

Chins: BWx5x6

Back was a little stiff today but not a huge deal. Squats starting to feel heavy. I shall ignore my feelings

[Ryan Arnold]

4/8/20

Press: 167.5x2x2, 135x8

Deadlift: 315x1

Another low motivation day and also seemed to be combined with some soft of residual back tweakness from Monday's Squats or who knows what. Definitely a lot more sitting and laying around happening in my life and that has traditionally not been good for my back. My quad has also possibly been tweaked again so not sure what will happen with Fridays Squats. I do know that Corona Season is not the time to be pushing old or current injuries

[Ryan Arnold]

4/10/20

Squat: 275x5

Bench: 252.5x2x3

Chins: [BW, +25, +40, +50] x3

Squat was actually better than expected. Low on motivation, back is still not 100%, and quad hasn't felt right either. But it got done. Ending SQ LP for these reasons though. Bench seemed like a slightly strained a pec.

[bikesandcars]

Yeah its pretty hard to predict how its going to go. I've had it at least twice before and the last time I'm not even positive how I got it. Possibly from stepping wrong on a curb on the street. The time before that was definitely overuse from running(2010). And this past time was excessive walking. Nothing really helped the other times. Just have to wait until it runs its course. Which I hope is less than 2.5 years!

I've finally gotten over mine for now. I tried just about everything from stretching/golf ball rolling to taking tumeric pills.. it lingered for a long time (caused by running and box jumps a year ago). Anyways, probably time and a combination of things healed me but the one thing in particular was taping the bottom of my feet with stretchable kinesiology tape and going for long runs (was training for one)... I think along the lines of aggravating it enough to heal it. If you haven't tried tape maybe give that a shot? Leave it on a day or two at a time.