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Originally Posted by BPA234
As it relates to work load, those last two posts seem like they are from different people. I would question the benefit for increasing strength and think that you might be inhibiting recovery.
Also, 29 is still young...particularly as it relates to strength training. You will get back to where you were in no time.
I don't know what to do about it.
The issues I have stem from a car accident in early 2012 I never fully recovered from. My neck hurts, mostly the right side, the upper right of my back is dysfunctional, and my shoulders are dysfunctional in certain ways, and my core is very unstable.
My PT strongly encouraged me to do PT exercises at the gym. He said this is important for my recovery. I've compromised by doing light PT work at home (as instructed to do) and making it to the gym a single time a week for assistance exercises. The gym exercises are an extension of the PT work at home, but hits areas I can't do as well without resistance.The exercises I picked are specifically to address the neck, upper back, shoulder issues with lots of retraction work and some stability work. I'm adding in farmers walks and palloff presses next.
I've tried just doing basic strength training to correct these issues and it doesn't work. If I could just add weight on squat, bench, deadlift and get better I would do it. After the accident happened in 2012, I was still DB benching the 100's and front squatting 245. The injury just crept up and took me out of action.
So I basically have to do the PT, and then add weight to my main lifts as much as possible. It's definitely slowing recovery to some small degree.
That being said, I do believe that some of the assistance lifts are capable of producing strength gains that will assist the main lifts. I've had a lot of success in the past adding weight to DB rows and decline DB bench.
I also forgot to schedule the assistance day above. I felt I had energy for it after benching so I went for it.
I intend to follow through on the rest of the schedule and I don't anticipate a problem with volume this week. I'm barely feeling the gym PT work the next day and my chest isn't even sore. I only did a handful of heavy sets the entire workout.
Thanks for the encouragement.