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Totally, consistency has been an issue, but the last few weeks have been great, apart from training around a few minor injuries, I feel I'm quickly getting back to where I was.
Always good to mix it up and keep it interesting!
The strength and cardio will come back bit by bit brother. You’ve already nailed the hardest part... actually stepping back inYeah thrown myself in to the deepend with combat training after my ACL injury. It was something I kept saying to myself I'll start training at home first and build my cardio up, I'll start doing more calisthenics to get my mobility back, I'll start doing bag work to get my speed back and confidence torquing my leg, I'll start skipping before I return etc. Then I realised I was 9 months down the line and had done hardly any of the things I was planning to do. I just woke up one morning and realised I just need to get back to training otherwise I'll never go back.
The same thing happened a long time back after a knee operation took me out of training for a year, said the same thing and it ended up being almost 10 years without any training.
Sure it's the wrong approach, but felt the only approach to get back to training. I'll just slowly progress through all the above until i get back to where i was.
I was looking at peptides the other day after you mentioned, just too expensive for me at the moment. Once my wife is working again and my weight training back to before injury. I'll be hitting up @ozsteroids for everything to make up for all this time off, might even let all my hair fall out
It's really depressing at the moment, seeminly with endless compriomises in training, but I realised the other day that the sparring made me feel like a new human, lifted a mental cloud away. Although the test helps I need it for the mental side. But like you said previously it's tough to balance fighting with weight training at our age.
Deficit deadlifts hit the lower back hard even with light weight. It's better to feel the burn safely than risk a tweak.
haha isn't it funny, been through similiar scenarios. It's like your an alien
Yeah sure does, I'm trying as hard as I can on the defecit part to get low to help with stretching. I think I'm about 20cm in defecit, need to try and fold right up and touch the ground. Since not training for Muay Thai after snapping my ACL, I can't kick any higher than someones mid section. Need those head kicks back!
It's crazy, you give up any other drug and it's fine, but alcohol and there's something wrong with you.
Gotta never worry about strange looks, I always feel like I get strange looks when I do front lat raises on the cable machine, I make sure I keep a first instead of an open hand for good reason.
It's wild considering how commonly known how bad it is, I had a friend hit a real low because of it and it really rattled me, that and how bad it is for muscle gain and losing weight I decided I barely have it anyway may as well cut it completely.
Yeah amazing how so many people seem to be against other people quitting alcohol. I started with a three month break, then thought if I can do 3 I can do 6. Then 6 came and I just realised I don't need it. This and at the same time listening to podcasts on alcohol and I've now just done a year. I think what made this easier, was that I wasn't aiming to be 100% off, I always just thought if there was a specical occasion etc I'd have a drink, so didn't feel I had that much pressure.
